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Attorney General For Now Jeff Sessions was, just a few short months before he lied to the Senate in his nomination hearing, a furious battler against perceived corruption in government.
How furious?
In November, then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) called for Loretta Lynch to recuse herself from any investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server or improper conduct by the Clinton Foundation, saying the attorney general could not be impartial after her impromptu meeting with former President Bill Clinton on an airplane in Phoenix.
“When a high public official is accused of serious wrongdoing and there is a sufficient factual predicate to investigate, it is imperative the investigation be thorough, with dispatch and without partisanship,” Sessions wrote in an op-ed, co-signed by other high-profile Donald Trump supporters.
Sessions demanded instead that a special counsel be appointed to those investigations.
So Bill Clinton talked with Loretta Lynch during an impromptu airport encounter, and Sessions was beside himself over the thought that Lynch would have anything to do with Clinton investigations ever again. Jeff Sessions lied to the Senate during his nomination hearing, and he's still not sure he's even going to bother recusing himself from the investigation into the very thing he personally lied about.
Yeah, it's a pointless bit of trivia at this point. We're beyond talk of "recusing"; the man didn't mislead the Senate about just any ol' thing, but about one of the most consequential investigations facing Washington today. A personal connection to that same investigation is not something a man like Sessions would simply "forget."