Trump: I'm 'just looking at' firing Sessions

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07/25/17 03:38 PM EDT



President Trump wouldn’t say Tuesday whether he would fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions, after repeatedly criticizing the top law enforcement official.

“I’m just looking at it,” Trump said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, when The Journal asked him how long he would criticize Sessions without firing him. “I’ll just see. It’s a very important thing.”

Trump has repeatedly slammed Sessions for recusing himself in March from the investigation into ties between Russia and his administration. Sessions recused himself after reports that he had failed during his confirmation process to disclose contact with the Russian ambassador.

Trump also said that Sessions’ early endorsement of his campaign “wasn’t a great loyal thing" because Sessions had nothing to lose by backing him in a state where the then-presidential candidate was popular.

“When they say he endorsed me, I went to Alabama,” Trump said about the endorsement. “I had 40,000 people. He was a senator from Alabama. I won the state by a lot, massive numbers. A lot of the states I won by massive numbers. But he was a senator, he looks at 40,000 people and he probably says, ’What do I have to lose?’ And he endorsed me. So it’s not like a great loyal thing about the endorsement."

“I’m very disappointed in Jeff Sessions,” Trump added, repeating past comments.

Trump most recently attacked Sessions in a tweet Tuesday morning, for having "taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes.” He said last week that he would not have hired Sessions if he had known Sessions would have recused himself from the Russia probe.

Sessions said last week that he will stay in the administration for “as long as that is appropriate.”

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