In an interview with the New York Times, President Donald Trump said he wouldn’t have appointed Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General if he had known Sessions would recuse himself from a the probe into Russian interference into the presidential election.
Trump said in the interview that Robert Mueller, the special counsel heading the Russia probe, would be crossing a red line if he expanded the investigation to look at Trump family finances beyond ties to Russia, the Times reported.
“I think that’s a violation. Look, this is about Russia,” Trump said, according to the report.
Read the full account of the interview from the New York Times.
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