Washington Examiner
August 15, 2018
Ordinarily, it would be big news if a president denounced one of his own appointees in public. But with President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, this has been the normal order of things for months.
The disagreement between the two men began when Sessions, immediately upon taking office, announced that he was recusing himself from the nascent investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. His reason was that he had himself been part of Trump’s presidential campaign — in fact, the first major officeholder to jump on the Trump train. He had also had a couple of very casual encounters with Russians that were insignificant but could have become an excuse to question the legitimacy of the investigation, of Sessions’ office, or even of the very Justice Department.