JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESETIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump tweeted Monday [8-20-18] to ask why his attorney general had not fired a Justice Department official with ties to the firm behind a dossier alleging connections between Trump and Russia. ‘Will Bruce Ohr, whose family received big money for helping to create the phony, dirty and discredited Dossier, ever be fired from the Jeff Sessions ‘Justice’ Department? A total joke!’ Trump wrote. It was the closest Trump had come to calling directly for Ohr, whose wife was a contractor for Fusion GPS, to lose his job. Ohr, who was demoted earlier this year, has come under fire from conservatives and now Trump over his connection to Fusion GPS. Ohr also had contacts with former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who wrote the dossier, and also with Fusion co-founder Glenn Simpson. Trump has threatened to revoke Ohr’s security clearance. But there has been no indication that Ohr was involved in launching the FBI’s investigation into possible ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian efforts to intervene in the election. Ohr is expected to testify before Congress on Aug. 28, Rep. Mark Meadows said on Twitter.”
–Caitlin Oprysko, “Trump asks if Jeff Sessions’ DOJ will ‘ever’ fire Bruce Ohr,” Politico, August 20, 2018 11:54 am