Jeff Sessions
U.S. attorney General Jeff sessions not so long ago expressed their willingness to resign because of tensions with President Donald trump. About this newspaper The Washington Post (WP), citing two sources close to the White house.
The differences between Sessom and trump has become aggravated after in March the attorney General was eliminated from the investigation of attributed to Russia’s “intervention” in the presidential elections of 2016 in the United States. The decision he announced shortly after taking office, and the day after that? as WP has disclosed that he twice met with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak during the election, and during the Senate hearings hid this fact.
According to sources, trump is confident that the disengagement and Roman sessions was a factor that contributed to the appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special Prosecutor to oversee the investigation of “Russian Affairs”.
Trump also disappointed that they initiated stricter immigrant legislation met with opposition from the judiciary.
The newspaper did not name the exact date when the sessions expressed their willingness to resign. This clarifies that trump refused the offer.
March 1, WP posted the material in which it was alleged that the sessions held two meetings with Kislyak a few months before the US presidential elections, which took place in November 2016. After that, the leaders of the Democrats in the U.S. Congress urged and Roman sessions to resign. The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova called approval of the media about the relationship of U.S. attorney General with the Russian Ambassador “media DNA”.