Breaking: In New Unhinged Interview and at Press Conference Trump Again Attacks Attorney General Sessions

‘It’s Not Like a Great Loyal Thing About the Endorsement’ Trump Says

In a just-published interview with The Wall Street Journal and in an internationally-televised press conference President Donald Trump delivered unhinged responses when asked about Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Trump “expressed his disappointment in Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday and questioned the importance of Mr. Sessions’s early endorsement of Mr. Trump’s candidacy, but the president declined to say whether he planned to fire him,” Wall Street Journal reporter Michael C. Bender writes.

But it is this response that was incomprehensible.

“It’s not like a great loyal thing about the endorsement,” Trump said. “I’m very disappointed in Jeff Sessions.”

Let’s look at that again:

“It’s not like a great loyal thing about the endorsement.”

What does that even mean?

Later in the interview, Bender reports, “Mr. Sessions’s endorsement came at a rally in Alabama, one of the biggest of the campaign.”

“When they say he endorsed me, I went to Alabama,” Mr. Trump said on Tuesday , recalling 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. But I’m very disappointed in Jeff Sessions.”

So now Trump is saying that the first Senator to endorse him – at a time when he was radioactive with the GOP – the man who helped him win the White House, the man who has been by his side from the beginning, one of his most important policy advisors throughout the campaign, during the transition, and since he was sworn in, did noting important.

(To be clear, Sessions should never have been nominated. He lied to Congress, and has a vile racist legacy, but Trump wants to fire him because he wants to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller who’s investigating the campaign’s ties to Russia.)

Trump delivered a similar attack minutes ago at a joint press conference in the Rose Garden with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri.

Sessions “should not have recused himself,” Trump told reporters, which is false. Sessions had no choice, legally. Even top Trump ally and former advisor Rudy Giuliani, who many believe is in the running to replace Sessions, this week said the Attorney General was right to recuse himself.

Trump went on to say that if Sessions was going to recuse himself he should have told trump prior to accepting the nomination. Trump then altered his language, tweaking it from the remarks he made last week to The New York Times.

“I think that’s a bad thing not for the president but for the presidency,” he told reporters this afternoon. Trump last week said the recusal was “very unfair to the president.”

Trump then claimed he is unhappy with Sessions because of the “leaks” coming out of the DOJ. 

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