Attorney General Sessions is recusing himself from any probe related to 2016 presidential campaign
By Washington Post Staff March 2 at 4:11 PM
By Karoun Demirjian, Ed O'Keefe, Sari Horwitz and Matt Zapotosky March 2 at 2:37 PM
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will recuse himself from any investigations related to the 2016 presidential campaign, including any Russian interference, officials said Thursday.
The announcement comes a day after The Washington Post revealed that Sessions twice met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and did not disclose that fact to Congress during his confirmation hearing.
At that hearing, Sessions was asked what he would do if he learned of any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of the 2016 campaign, and said, “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians.”
Democrats had been calling for weeks for Sessions to step away from the investigation, though he had resisted pressures to do so. On Thursday, some high-level Republicans joined in saying the former senator should recuse himself.
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