After President Donald Trump on Thursday lashed out at Attorney General Jeff Sessions—yet again—for recusing himself from the Russia probe, the battered Trump loyalist responded by emphasizing his “unprecedented success at effectuating the president’s agenda.”
In a wide-ranging interview with “Fox & Friends” on Thursday morning, Trump had slammed Sessions for his recusal, claimed he only appointed the former senator from Alabama to his current post because “he was an original supporter,” and said, “I put in an attorney general that never took control of the Justice Department.”
In a statement that had corporate news outlets declaring, “Sessions fires back,” the attorney general touts his role in pushing an agenda that “enforces our immigration laws”—such as by ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and tearing thousands of migrant children from their parents—and “advances religious liberty,” like a directive last year that critics warned would “enable systemic, government-wide discrimination” against LGBTQ people.
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