WATCH: A Defiant Jeff Sessions Refuses to Resign – ‘We Will Continue Every Single Day to Work Hard’

‘We Love This Job, We Love This Department’

A defiant Jeff Sessions, just 15 hours after President Donald Trump in an interview expressed his anger at the Attorney General, is refused to consider resigning. 

“We in this Dept. of Justice will continue every single day to work hard to serve the national interest and we wholeheartedly join in the priorities of President Trump,” Sessions, speaking in the third person, told reporters after holding a press conference announcing a major operation in taking down a portion of the dark web.

Sessions seemed to stress the words “the national interest” in his remarks.

“I have the honor of serving as Attorney General, it goes beyond any thought I would have had for myself. We love this job, we love this department, and I plan to intend to continue to do so as long as that is appropriate.”

Asked how he can continue to serve if he doesn’t “have the confidence of the president” Sessions replied: “We’re serving right now.”

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President Trump expressed his frustration at Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia investigation in a bombshell New York Times interview Wednesday. Trump told the paper it was “extremely unfair to the President” that the Attorney General, his first supporter in the U.S. Senate, recused himself. 

“Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else,” Trump told the Times. 

“Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself, which frankly I think is very unfair to the president,” Trump said. “How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, ‘Thanks, Jeff, but I’m not going to take you.’ It’s extremely unfair — and that’s a mild word — to the president.”

The President’s remarks suggested he is under the faulty impression the Attorney General, who heads the Department of Justice and is viewed as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, is his personal attorney on retention to defend and protect the president, not the Constitution, the nation, and its citizens.

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