Attorney General Jeff Sessions "betrayed" President Trump by recusing himself from the Justice Department investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) said Friday.
In an interview on CNN, Rohrabacher said that, by stepping aside from the investigation, Sessions gave tacit approval to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to appoint a special prosecutor that would unfairly target Trump and others.
"The American people now are getting a taste of what people in Washington have known over this last year," he said. "And that is Jeff Sessions betrays the people who have had faith in him and faith in him to do his job and faith in him not to succumb to pressures from the outside, like from CNN and other news bureaus, to try to do their bidding."
"When he recused himself from this whole Russia thing, he knew he was setting in motion the establishment of a special prosecutor and a special prosecutor, as happens in Washington, we understand, is just giving unlimited power to someone to go after you," Rohrabacher added.
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