Sen. Paul backs Trump's frustration with Sessions' recusal
By Louis Nelson
07/20/2017 09:00 AM EDT
Sen. Rand Paul on Thursday backed President Donald Trump’s criticism of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, using the president’s scolding of the nation’s top law enforcement official to push his own libertarian-leaning criminal justice policy.
“I agree with @realDonaldTrump, his Attorney General should not have recused himself over reported incidental contacts with Russian officials,” Paul (R-Ky.) wrote on Twitter Thursday morning, just hours after The New York Times published an interview with the president in which he said he would not have nominated Sessions to be attorney general had he known that the former Alabama senator would recuse himself from the Justice Department’s ongoing Russia investigation.
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