President Trump and his advisers are floating possible replacements for Attorney General Jeff Sessions — and the list includes Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), The Washington Post reports.
Cruz and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) are reportedly among the candidates Trump’s team is considering to replace Sessions, though Giuliani said earlier in the day that he’s not being considered.
Trump has repeatedly said that he is disappointed by Sessions’s decision to recuse himself from the probe into ties between the Trump administration and Russia, saying in an interview last week that he would have never hired Sessions if he knew he would recuse himself.
Trump also slammed Sessions in a tweet Monday morning, asking why our “beleaguered A.G.” wasn’t investigating ties between Hillary Clinton and Russia.
Giuliani denied reports that he was up for Sessions’s spot earlier Monday and defended the attorney general’s decision to pull himself from the probe, saying it was “the right decision.”
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JUST IN: Trump considering Ted Cruz as to replace Sessions as AG: report https://t.co/VoSI9zPiq3 pic.twitter.com/eRrOtj1Hnr
— The Hill (@thehill) July 25, 2017
Was definitely an early Cruz-for-AG supporter, but to take the job now would be inexplicable. https://t.co/WKLW9HHOuD
— Brian Phillips (@RealBPhil) July 25, 2017
Agree, Brian. Taking the job now to set yourself up to potentially be Saturday Night Massacred later makes no sense. https://t.co/uKmhqbRh11
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) July 25, 2017
Or be the patsy to fire Mueller. https://t.co/Jcs9xUul7K
— Brian Phillips (@RealBPhil) July 25, 2017
Why I made the Saturday Night Massacre reference. It's throwing your career away. https://t.co/xWtTHsItXP
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) July 25, 2017
Via an aide, Cruz is second WH float for AG to throw cold water on prospect pic.twitter.com/T6dl9D0Ykr
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 25, 2017
I would like to think Cruz would be smart enough not to join the revolving door Trump administration and possibly wreck any hopes for winning the presidency in 2020 or whenever. But then Cruz did endorse Trump after Trump all but destroyed his career last year.
Cruz has issued a statement:
“Jeff Sessions is a friend and a strong conservative. I was proud to vote to confirm Jeff and to vigorously defend his confirmation, and I’m deeply gratified that we have a principled conservative like Jeff Sessions serving as Attorney General,” Cruz said in a statement on Monday night.
“The stories being reported in the media tonight are false. My focus is and will remain on fighting every day to defend 28 million Texans in the US Senate.”
Good!
Here's @tedcruz standing up for his former Senate colleague despite the fact he threw him under the bus in the POTUS primary. #grace https://t.co/sYnbf9Nhn5
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) July 25, 2017
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