Jeff Sessions says his recusal from Russia probe was an attempt to help Trump
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday again defended his 2017 decision to recuse himself from the Justice Department's Russia probe, saying his decision had been made in an attempt to help President Donald Trump.
"As the world knows, the President disagreed with me on recusal, but I did what the law required me to do. I was a central figure in the campaign and was also a subject of and witness in the investigation and could obviously not legally be involved in investigating myself," the Alabama Republican wrote in a press release Tuesday.
"If I had ignored and broken the law, the Democrats would have used that to severely damage the President."
Trump has levied multiple attacks on Sessions in recent days, focusing particularly on Sessions' 2017 recusal as the former Cabinet member vies to reclaim his US Senate seat in Alabama.
On "Dumb Fux and Friends" on Friday, Trump said of Sessions, "He goes in -- he was so bad in his nomination proceedings. I should have gotten rid of him there," adding that he "knew less about Russia than I did."
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