Trump’s Fury Erodes His Relationship With Sessions, an Early Ally<br />Sessions said on Thursday that he intended to serve “as long as<br />that is appropriate.” And a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, tried to moderate her boss’s remarks, telling reporters later, “Clearly, he has confidence in him, or he would not be the attorney general.”<br />Sessions remains in his job, the relationship between him and Mr. Trump — the Alabama lawyer and the Queens real estate developer, an odd couple bound by a shared conviction<br />that illegal immigration is destroying America — is unlikely to ever be the same, according to a half-dozen people close to Mr. Trump.<br />By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMANJULY 20, 2017<br />Attorney General Jeff Sessions deflected questions about whether he can continue to serve in his post after President<br />Trump in a New York Times interview took him to task for recusing himself from the Russia investigation.<br />It turned out to be a preview of even more cutting remarks Mr. Trump would make two days later in an interview with : an extraordinary public expression of dissatisfaction with<br />one of his top aides based on Mr. Sessions’s decision in March to recuse himself from the expanding federal investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.<br />But in recent weeks, Mr. Trump has become more aware of how hard it could be, given the investigations, to win Senate<br />confirmation of a new attorney general, especially one who possesses the iron loyalty the president demands of Mr.<br />Former colleagues expressed sympathy for Mr.<br />WASHINGTON — President Trump’s staff is used to his complaints about Attorney General Jeff Sessions,<br />but the Republican senators who attended a White House dinner on Monday were stunned to hear him criticize the man who was once Mr. Trump’s most loyal supporter in the Senate.
