Sessions Refusal
Jeff Sessions refusal to answer questions by the Russian probe committee doesn’t help Trump. He was possibly in a tough situation. His answer might implicate Trump and not answering could also be seen as guilt.
Rep. Adam Schiff said “I asked the Attorney General whether he was ever instructed by the President to take any action that he believed would hinder the Russia investigation and he declined to answer the question.”
“If the President did not instruct him to take any action that he believed would hinder the Russia investigation, he should say so. If the President did instruct him to hinder the investigation in any way, in my view, that would be a potentially criminal act and certainly not covered by any privilege,” said Schiff.
It was certainly understandable why Sessions refused to answer. Nevertheless it only served to make lawmakers suspicious of the President.
Schiff made a reference to Sessions refusal to answer. He said “that, under any conceivable idea, is not privileged, so I think that is even a weaker argument to make than with respect to a particular conversation that he may have had with the President.”
The situation now placed in the President in a predicament about his integrity. This could cause the American people to have even less confidence in him.
