Attorney general defended the integrity of his department in a rare rebuttal following the president’s scathing assessment
Donald Trump has drawn a sharp rebuttal from his attorney general after he gave a scathing assessment of Jeff Sessions as being unable to take control of the justice department.
The president intensified his criticism of the justice department in a Fox News interview aired on Thursday as the White House grappled to respond to Tuesday’s conviction of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on multiple fraud counts and a guilty plea by Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, that implicated the president.
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