WASHINGTON: Donald Trump would soon take a decision on his Attorney General Jeff Sessions who was accused by the US president of being "very weak" in the probe against former secretary of state and the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Over the last few days Trump has gone public in expressing his dissatisfaction over Sessions' position on investigations related to Russian interference in the American presidential elections last year. Sessions had recused himself from the government's probe of Russian meddling in the US election.
Sessions, the former US Senator from Alabama, was one of the first top American lawmakers to have endorsed Trump when he was running for the presidency.
"We will come to a resolution soon," new White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci said.
In an interview with The New York Times last week, Trump said he would have never appointed Sessions to the position of attorney general had he known this.
Sessions have said that he would stay in the position as long as it is appropriate.
The White House yesterday said that Trump has full confidence in Sessions and that the president was just expressing his viewpoint. Trump, however, continued with the public embarrassment of his own Attorney General.
"Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a very weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails and DNC server) and Intel leakers!" Trump said in a tweet to his more than 34.4 million supporters.
Republican Senator Rob Portman came out in support of Sessions. "Jeff Sessions is a friend, former colleague, and an honourable person. He is a man of deep conviction and principle who believes in the rule of law. We may not agree on every policy issue, but I believe he always has the best interests of our country at heart," he said.
The Senate Minority Leader, Charles Schumer, said that in recent days Trump has "gone out of the way" to undermine his own Attorney General.
"He has tweeted scathing criticism of Attorney General Sessions and chastised him publicly for recusing himself from the Russia investigation and several other perceived failures in the eyes of the President. We should all take a moment to think about how shocking these comments are—on a human basis," Schumer said on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon.
Schumer observed that many Americans must be wondering if the President is trying to pry open the office of Attorney General to appoint someone during the August recess who will fire Special Counsel Mueller and shut down the Russia investigation.