WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 25, 2017 - The feud between President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions started early on Tuesday, when Trump, in an early tweetstorm, lashed out at the attorney general whom he accused of taking a "very weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes.” Trump also asked the AG where is the investigation into "Ukrainian efforts to sabotage the Trump campaign... quietly working to boost Clinton."
In a follow up tweet, Trump also slammed the acting director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, whom he implicitly accused of corruption for getting $700,000 from Clinton for his wife (which incidentally is accurate, as reported in the Wall Street Journal.
Today's animosity between Trump and Sessions was first unveiled in an interview with The New York Times last week, when Trump said he would have never hired his attorney general if he knew he would recuse himself from the probe into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Trump in a tweet Monday morning also asked why the "beleaguered AG" wasn’t investigating ties between Clinton and Russia.
Trump has floated possible replacements for Sessions including Senator Ted Cruz (Tex.) and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, although subsequently Giuliani said that he’s not being considered for the position.
In addition to slamming Sessions, Trump also focused on today's big item, the latest Senate vote on GOP health care, which however remains in chaos as nobody knows what will be voted on just hours ahead of the actual vote. After berating Republicans for failing to repeal and replace ObamaCare, Trump tweeted "Big day for HealthCare. After seven years of talking, we will soon see whether or not Republicans are willing to step up to the plate. ObamaCare is torturing the Amerikan People. The Democrats have fooled the people long enough. Repeal or Repeal & Replace! I have pen in hand."
