President Trump told reporters at the White House Tuesday that he’s not worried about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recent interview with the special counsel investigating his campaign.
“No, not at all,” Trump said when asked Tuesday whether he had worried about what Sessions may have told Robert Mueller, the special counsel overseeing an investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russians during the presidential race.
Sessions met with Mueller last week, the Justice Department confirmed earlier Tuesday. News of the attorney general’s interview came as the White House disputed reports that FBI Director Christopher Wray had threatened to resign if Sessions and Trump continued to pressure him to remove Andrew McCabe, deputy director of the FBI.
Trump denied ever seeking the removal of Wray, whom he nominated and has frequently praised.
“I didn’t, but I’m not at all concerned,” Trump said when pressed Tuesday about whether he had weighed firing Wray.
Trump and his allies have highlighted the Hillary Clinton-connected campaign donations McCabe’s wife received during the presidential race, at which time McCabe had an oversight role on the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s mishandling of classified information. McCabe’s wife, who was running for office in Virginia at the time, took a six-figure contribution from a close Clinton ally in what critics have called an exchange that could have compromised McCabe’s objectivity.
