Ex-GOP Rep. Chaffetz Eviscerates Jeff Sessions: ‘Absolutely Worthless,’ Time for Him to Go

Josh FeldmanMay 30th, 2018, 12:32 pm

On Fox News this morning, former Congressman Jason Chaffetz went on a tear against Attorney General Jeff Sessions following last night’s report about a confrontation between him and the President over his Russia recusal.

Bill Hemmer read off the three tweets President Trump sent out this morning quoting what Trey Gowdy said about Sessions:

Rep.Trey Gowdy, “I don’t think so, I think what the President is doing is expressing frustration that Attorney General Sessions should have shared these reasons for recusal before he took the job, not afterward. If I were the President and I picked someone to be the country’s….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2018

….chief law enforcement officer, and they told me later, ‘oh by the way I’m not going to be able to participate in the most important case in the office, I would be frustrated too…and that’s how I read that – Senator Sessions, why didn’t you tell me before I picked you…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2018

….There are lots of really good lawyers in the country, he could have picked somebody else!” And I wish I did!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2018

This isn’t surprising information, since Trump has gone on the record multiple times about his frustrations with Sessions. Hemmer asked Chaffetz is the AG has a “target on his back” now.

“Jeff Sessions as the Attorney General is there in name only,” Chaffetz responded. “He’s absolutely worthless. The sooner the President names a new Attorney General, the better. He should never had recused himself, he didn’t need to… and we have major systemic problems at the FBI and he’s nowhere.”

He concluded, “It’s time to get rid of Jeff Sessions.”

Watch above, via Fox News.

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