Report: Despite Trump's criticism, Jeff Sessions has no plans to resign
President Trump's daily reminders to Attorney General Jeff Sessions that he is a disappointment aren't enough to get Sessions to step down from his position, The Washington Post reports.
Trump has been slamming Sessions in interviews — like telling The New York Times if he had known Sessions was going to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, he never would have picked him to be attorney general — and on Twitter, and even told reporters on Tuesday "time will tell" whether he fires Sessions. Despite Trump's digs, Sessions' chief of staff, Jody Hunt, told Reince Priebus, White House chief of staff, that the attorney general has no intention of resigning, and in fact, "plans to move forward with his agenda in the department," one person familiar with the exchange told the Post.
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