Trump messes with Sessions, and Senate Republicans are not pleased
The president took to Twitter to call Sessions "beleaguered" and question why the attorney general wasn’t investigating Trump’s 2016 Democratic presidential rival, Hillary Clinton. That was Monday, and by Tuesday morning, he doubled down: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) and Intel leakers!” he tweeted.
“It would not be well received on Capitol Hill,” Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama warned, saying Sessions had been loyal to the president “to a fault.”
“Most people in the U.S. Senate and U.S. Congress believe Jeff Sessions is a man of integrity,” Shelby said on Fox News on Tuesday. His firing, Shelby said, “would not be taken lightly.”...
