Trump: Sessions is ‘scared stiff and missing in action’

Via The Hill

President Trump ratcheted up his attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Saturday, tweeting that Sessions was “scared stiff” and “Missing in Action” in defending him amid special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Trump slammed Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence officer at the center of the Trump dossier scandal, and the Justice Department and once again slamming Mueller’s investigation as a “witch hunt.”

“The big story that the Fake News Media refuses to report is lowlife Christopher Steele’s many meetings with Deputy A.G. Bruce Ohr and his beautiful wife, Nelly. It was Fusion GPS that hired Steele to write the phony & discredited Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary & the DNC….” Trump tweeted.

“…Do you believe Nelly worked for Fusion and her husband STILL WORKS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF “JUSTICE.” I have never seen anything so Rigged in my life. Our A.G. is scared stiff and Missing in Action. It is all starting to be revealed – not pretty. IG Report soon? Witch Hunt!”

This isn’t the first time the president has attacked Sessions over the Russia probe. Trump is known to be furious with his attorney general for recusing himself due to his own involvement in the campaign.

“The Russian Witch Hunt Hoax continues, all because Jeff Sessions didn’t tell me he was going to recuse himself…I would have quickly picked someone else. So much time and money wasted, so many lives ruined…and Sessions knew better than most that there was No Collusion!” the president tweeted in June.

Trump’s criticism Saturday of the Mueller probe centered around the origin of the infamous dossier compiled by retired MI6 agent Christopher Steele.

Trump claims in the tweet that the Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS, the company that hired Steele. While that claim is technically true, Clinton campaign officials have denied any knowledge of Steele’s hiring.

Furthermore, the main impetus for the Mueller probe was worrying interactions between Russians and Trump campaign aide George Papadapoulos, according to a report from the House Intelligence Committee.