Embattled Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday defended himself after yet another attack from President Trump, saying he would “continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor.”
The attorney general, one of Trump’s favorite punching bags, was responding to the president calling him “DISGRACEFUL” on Twitter for not having Justice Department lawyers investigate the FBI’s handling of FISA warrants.
“We have initiated the appropriate process that will ensure that complaints against this department will be fully and fairly acted upon if necessary,” he said in a statement.
“This department will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner according to the law and the Constitution.”
Trump was angry that Sessions had asked the department’s inspector general, and not federal prosecutors, to examine the FBI’s actions.