President Trump’s first attorney general was forced out in a day. His allies felt he deserved a more formal send-off.
By Matt Zapotosky Matt Zapotosky National security reporter covering the Justice Department Email Bio Follow March 21 at 3:47 PM Jeff Sessions — who as the 84th Attorney General of the United States endured relentless attacks from President Trump — returned to the Justice Department Thursday to claim the brown leather chair he once sat in at the commander in chief’s side.
In December, for example, referring to Mueller’s investigation, Trump wrote, “Jeff Sessions should be ashamed of himself for allowing this total HOAX to get started in the first place!” Two months later, he derisively referred to his former top law enforcement official as “another beauty,” and this month, he tweeted that Sessions “didn’t have a clue!”
Addressing Sessions directly, Barr said he was “a direct beneficiary of your stewardship,” in part because “you and the president assembled an exceptional leadership team here.”Sessions was not universally beloved inside the Justice Department, but the president’s constant attempts to humiliate the attorney general engendered significant sympathy for him there. A little more than a week after he left — as with previous attorneys general — Assistant Attorney General for Administration Lee J.
When Barr was nominated as attorney general, they knew they had their moment. Sessions had been a U.S. attorney when Barr was attorney general in the 1990s, and the two liked and respected each other, Hanrahan said.The Justice Department allowed media to attend the event but barred journalists from taking photographs. A Justice Department photographer did so instead.
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