Trump slams attorney general for not probing Hillary Clinton

July 25, 2017 00:10

US President Donald Trump slammed his own attorney general for not probing the alleged links his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton had with the Russians during the last year's presidential polls.

Over the past week, Trump has been attacking Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his decision months ago to recuse himself from the investigations into possible connections between Trump's campaign and Russia.

In March, Sessions had announced that he would recuse himself from investigations related to the 2016 presidential campaign, including those into Russian interference in the electoral process.

Trump had said in an interview with the New York Times last week that he would not have appointed Sessions if he had known the attorney general would recuse himself, as he considers the decision "very unfair to the president."

Sessions, a former senator from Alabama, supported Trump from the early days of his candidacy and became a trusted adviser.

He had said last week that he will stay in this position as long as it is appropriate.

Trump, who has 34.4 million followers on Twitter, fired a series of tweets on issues close to him.

"So why aren't the committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered attorney general, looking into crooked Hillary's crimes and Russia relations?" Trump asked in a tweet.

In one of the tweets, he was critical of his own lawmakers in the Congress expressing his frustration over the failure of his healthcare bill to get through the legislative process.

"Republicans have a last chance to do the right thing on Repeal and Replace after years of talking and campaigning on it," Trump tweeted.

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