Steve Bannon knew of Jeff Sessions recusal before attorney general nomination
by Joel Gehrke
April 18, 2019 04:29 PM Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recusal from the Russia investigation was “not a surprise†to White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, according to special counsel Robert Mueller.
Trump “expressed anger†about Sessions’ decision in March of 2017, the day after the former Alabama lawmaker announced that he would not oversee any federal investigations into the 2016 campaign due to his role as an adviser during the election. His recusal left Trump feeling vulnerable, but Bannon defended the decision.
“Bannon recalled telling the President that Sessions's recusal was not a surprise and that before the inauguration they had discussed that Sessions would have to recuse from campaign-related investigations because of his work on the Trump Campaign,†the report said.
Trump fumed at Sessions publicly for months. "Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else,†he told the New York Times in July of 2017.
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