Trump again rips attorney general but many want him to stay
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans and influential conservatives rallied around Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday as President Donald Trump kept up his public pelting of the nation’s top law enforcement officer and left his future in doubt.
Sessions’ former colleagues in the Senate denounced the president’s broadsides against the first senator to endorse him.
Key forces in the conservative media, including Rush Limbaugh and Breitbart News, sharply criticized Trump’s broadsides. And even as Trump again turned to Twitter to rap Sessions, the White House suggested the attorney general should just press ahead with doing his job.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said of Sessions that the president “wants him to lead the department.”