Iran Press/America- "I took control of the Department of Justice the day I was sworn in," Sessions said in a statement on Thursday. "While I am attorney general, the actions of the Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations," he added.
As Investigations swirl Around US President, Trump said Sessions was not in control of his department.
Trump said in his interview with Fox news, "I put in an attorney general that never took control of the Justice Department. Jeff Sessions never took control of the Justice Department and it's a sort of an incredible thing."
Trump's war of word with his own Attorney General is after separate legal hammers dropped nearly simultaneously on two former members of his inner circle.
Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort were convicted of financial crimes
Michael Cohen, his longtime lawyer and “fixer”, pleaded guilty to eight charges , including campaign finance violations and directly implicated Trump in paying “hush money” to women with whom he allegedly had affairs.
Just minutes earlier, Paul Manafort, the president’s former campaign chairman, was convicted on eight charges of bank and tax fraud. The dual courtroom dramas set up a moment or rare peril for the president.
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The White House said that the president has done nothing wrong in connection with the legal woes of his former personal attorney and says the leader is not the subject of criminal charges.
In his day of disaster Trump claimed that the stock market would plummet if he were to be removed from office.
Trump has a long history in war with justice and in the year and seven months that he has been the president he has pummeled the Department of Justice on a nearly daily basis.
US president has steadily attacked his attorney general for recusing himself from the Russia probe in March 2017. Sessions cited his role as a senior adviser to Trump's presidential campaign and appointed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to oversee the investigation.
Trump has called on Jeff Sessions to end a federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and whether there was any cooperation by his campaign with Moscow.
In what appeared to be his most direct call for shutting down the probe, Trump wrote on Twitter: "This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further.
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