Attorney General Jeff Sessions offered to resign at one point in recent months after his relationship with President Trump grew increasingly tense, according to two people close to the White House. The strain between the two began after Sessions recused himself in March from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump learned of the attorney general’s decision shortly before Sessions announced it at a news conference. It is unclear when Sessions offered to resign, and Trump refused the offer. Trump made clear to Sessions that although he did not like Sessions’s decision to recuse himself, he still had faith in his attorney general, these people said.

Source: Washington Post June 07, 2017 01:07 UTC