Only a reality TV version of the American presidency would a sitting president spend yet another Saturday morning publicly attacking his own Attorney General.
Oh, wait. This is that era.
President Trump has lashed out again at Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a weekend Twitter tirade that has many shaking their heads. Trump could, after all, immediately fire anyone on his own team he doesn’t like.
“Jeff Sessions said he wouldn’t allow politics to influence him only because he doesn’t understand what is happening underneath his command position,’ Trump tweeted this morning. “Highly conflicted Bob Mueller and his gang of 17 Angry Dems are having a field day as real corruption goes untouched. No Collusion!”
Sessions has drawn the President’s increasing ire as federal prosecutors under the attorney general’s command have tightened the screws this week, securing a guilty plea from Cohen and inking immunity deals with two other one-time Trump loyalists.
Sessions infuriated Trump by recusing himself from the Russia election interference investigation last year, leading to the creation of the Mueller probe.
As Mueller’s investigators, and prosecutors in an offshoot investigation that led to the guilty plea this week of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, have drawn closer to Trump’s business interests unrelated to Russia, the President seems to have grown increasingly impatient with Sessions.
In a rare move, Sessions jabbed back in a written statement on Thursday, writing: “While I am attorney general, the actions of the Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. I demand the highest standards, and where they are not met, I take action.”
Following the tweets on Saturday morning, Trump’s motorcade rolled out of the White House around 10.20am, arriving at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia about 40 minutes later.
Trump often said during the campaign that he would be “too busy working” to ever golf. To date, he has spent a record amount of time at his golf resorts.