JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Latest on President Donald Trump and a new book by journalist Bob Woodward (all times local): 11:10 p.m. President Donald Trump is denying that he called Attorney General Jeff Sessions ‘mentally retarded’ and ‘a dumb southerner.’ Trump is reacting on Twitter to one of the more incendiary claims in Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book ‘Fear: Trump in the White House.’ The president says he ‘never used those terms on anyone, including Jeff.’ He adds that ‘being a southerner is a GREAT thing.’ Trumps claim Woodward ‘made this up to divide!’ Trump has previously accused Sessions of failing to take control of the Justice Department. And the president has repeatedly complained about Sessions’ decision to recuse himself from the federal investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia because he’d worked on Trump’s campaign.”
–The Associated Press, “The Latest: Trump Denies Saying Sessions ‘Mentally Retarded’,” The New York Times online, September 4, 2018