JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions acknowledged Tuesday [10-16-18] what every reader of President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed already knows: Trump’s not happy with his top lawman. At a Justice Department news conference to announce a crackdown on a Mexican drug cartel, Sessions was asked about the president’s comment in a recent ’60 Minutes’ interview that he was ‘very disappointed’ with the attorney general…Trump was infuriated by Sessions’ decision in March 2017 to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian influence on the Trump campaign. The president has repeatedly said Sessions should have informed him before the nomination that he would recuse himself. Sessions rarely discusses the criticism in public, even though Trump doesn’t hold back on the subject on his Twitter feed or when asked by reporters.”
–Josh Gerstein, “Sessions acknowledges Trump’s frustration, is mum on resignation talk,” Politico, October 16, 2018 4:38 pm