WASHINGTON – President Trump has no plans to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions before the Russia probe is completed, the president’s lawyer said Wednesday.
Rudy Giuliani told reporters outside the White House in an impromptu gaggle that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Special Counsel Robert Mueller should also be safe from Trump’s wrath.
“I don’t think the president is going to touch him (Sessions), Mueller or Rosenstein,” Giuliani said, according to video of the interview posted by Voice of America News.
“In the long run I think it will be worked out.”
Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with the Russia probe, which he’s deemed a witch hunt, and openly complains about Sessions recusing himself from the Russia investigation.
Sessions’ recusal gave way to the appointment of Mueller by Rosenstein.
If Trump asked Sessions to take control of the Russia probe again, Trump’s lawyer said that would not be obstruction of justice.
“Hardly,” Giuliani said. “I mean you got to be able to ask a cabinet member to do things you think they should do. Even if he commanded him to do it, it wouldn’t be obstruction of justice.”
Giuliani was in the audience for a White House sports and fitness field day.