Jeff Sessions has recently declared that he may leave his role as Attorney General if US President Donald Trump fires his colleague, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, according to the Washington Post.
The attorney general apparently made this statement during a phone call to the White House, when he sought to learn the details of a meeting between Trump and Rosenstein which took place on April 12.
According to the newspaper’s sources, Sessions did not intend to threaten the administration but merely sought to explain that if Rosenstein gets fired, he would be put in an "untenable position" which would leave him little choice but to leave office.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is also the man who last year had appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel to lead the probe, striving to prove the alleged Trump campaign's collusion with Russia.
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Russia has repeatedly denied any collusion, and Trump has been especially outspoken, often using the term "witch hunt" to describe the Mueller probe as politically motivated. Trump’s disdain for the excesses of the investigation has prompted speculation that the US president wants to fire Mueller and there are calls by Democrats in Congress for a law that would prevent Trump from doing so.