Mr Giuliani told CNN on Monday that he did not want the post and would have recused himself had he been in Mr Sessions’ position.nThe president’s tweet about former Alabama senator Mr Sessions comes less than a week after Mr Trump, in a New York Times interview, said Mr Sessions should never have taken the job as attorney general if he was going to recuse himself.
Mr Sessions made that decision after it was revealed that he had met a top Russian diplomat last year.
Mr Trump has seethed about Mr Sessions’ decision for months, viewing it as disloyal – arguably the most grievous offence in the president’s mind – and resenting that the attorney general did not give the White House a proper warning before making the announcement that he would recuse himself.
His fury has been fanned by several close confidants, including his son Donald Trump Jr, who is also ensnared in the Russia probe, who are angry that Mr Sessions made his decision. Mr Sessions had recently asked senior White House staff how he might patch up relations with the president, but that effort did not go anywhere, according to a person briefed on the conversations.
The attorney general was in the West Wing on Monday but did not meet the president, according to deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. He and Mr Trump used to be close, sharing both a friendship and an ideology. Mr Sessions risked his reputation when he became the first US senator to endorse the celebrity businessman and his early backing gave Mr Trump legitimacy, especially among the hardline anti-immigration forces that bolstered his candidacy.
After Mr Trump’s public rebuke last week, Mr Sessions seemed determined to keep doing the job he said “goes beyond anything that I would have ever imagined for myself”.
“I’m totally confident that we can continue to run this office in an effective way,” he said.
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