Lindsey Graham Says Sessions Recusal Was ‘Right Thing Legally,’ Still Wants AG to Go

On Thursday night, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) insisted Attorney General Jeff Sessions “did the right thing legally” when he recused himself from the Mueller probe.

Yet, breaking from his previous support of Sessions, he also repeated once again that it was time for the attorney general to go.

“When Jeff recused himself, which I think he should have, any lawyer would have done what Jeff Sessions did. He was part of the campaign. You can’t oversee an investigation of the campaign you are a part of,” Graham said, defending Sessions for stepping aside.

Host Shannon Bream then asked why Trump doesn’t “get that?”

“I don’t know,” Graham responded. “The president is not a lawyer. He’s frustrated. He thinks that this is a witch hunt.”

He then stressed: “The bottom line here is, Jeff did the right thing legally.”

Yet, he admitted given all that has gone on between Trump and Sessions, it is time for Sessions to leave his post.

“I say this with a heavy heart because I was a big proponent of Jeff Sessions,” Graham said. “The relationship is unsustainable.”

Graham’s remarks come on the same day as Fox News aired an interview with President Donald Trump where he slammed his attorney general and said Sessions should not have recused himself.

“Even my enemies say that Jeff Sessions should have told you that he was going to recuse himself and then you wouldn’t have put him in.” Trump said. “He took the job and then he said, ‘I’m going to recuse myself.’ I said, ‘What kind of a man is this?'”

Watch above, via Fox News

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