WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions had a tenuous hold on his job when President Trump called him at home in the middle of 2017. Now, Mr. Trump had another demand: He wanted Mr. “The ‘gist’ of the conversation,” according to the report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, quoting Mr. Sessions, “was that the president wanted Sessions to unrecuse from ‘all of it.’”Mr. Mueller’s report released last week brimmed with examples of Mr. Trump seeking to protect himself from the investigation. Sessions — and two similar ones detailed in the report — stands apart because it shows Mr. Trump trying to wield the power of law enforcement to target a political rival, a step that no president since Richard M. Nixon is known to have taken.

Source: New York Times April 24, 2019 20:48 UTC