President Trump publicly voiced his regret for his decision to make Jeff Sessions the attorney general, in an interview that aired Thursday with “Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt.
“The reason he got nothing is the Dems are very strong in the Justice Department,” Trump said of Imran Awan, a former aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who on Tuesday was sentenced to three months of supervised release plus time served for bank fraud.
“I put in an attorney general that never took control of the Justice Department, Jeff Sessions,” Trump continued. “Never took control of the Justice Department, and, uh, it’s sort of an incredible thing.”
“I put in an attorney general that never took control of the Justice Department.” -President @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/ARTg1JbeK2
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) August 23, 2018
Trump went on to praise other cabinet appointments, contrasting their work with Sessions.
“We have this country going so well,” he said. “Mike Pompeo is doing incredibly. All of my people are doing incredibly, but the whole thing going on with Justice and the FBI, when you see Stzrok and his lover, Lisa Page, when you see Comey with all the lies that he told …”
