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SCOOP: Trump repeatedly pressured Sessions on Mueller investigation. At least four direct conversations… https://t.co/07TqH5ZOua
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) May 31, 2018
… because his Lord & Master Donald J. Trump has done everything short of calling a press conference to witness him taking a dump on Jeff’s desk, and yet the Malevolent Leprechaun still won’t walk away from a criminal conspiracy that at best is going to soil his reputation for all time.
…The New York Times this week reported on one of these conversations— which occurred at Mar-a-Lago in March 2017 — and said Robert Mueller is investigating it. But Trump’s other direct conversations with Sessions about the subject have not been previously reported.
A source with knowledge of the conversations said they occurred throughout last year, until fairly late in the year — not just in the short period after Sessions recused himself last March…
Trump told Sessions he’d be a “hero” to conservatives if he did the “right thing” and took back control over the Russia investigation, according to two sources with knowledge of their conversations.
Trump also told Sessions he’d be a hero if he investigated Hillary Clinton, according to one of the sources…
Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti opines:
3/ Later we learned that Trump said he wanted an Attorney General who would "protect" him, as he believed Eric Holder did for Obama. We then learned that Trump ordered his White House Counsel to try to stop Sessions from recusing himself: https://t.co/FHCnY6EOf5
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) May 30, 2018
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