川普：塞申斯在涉俄调查中不应该主动规避_时事

川普：塞申斯在涉俄调查中不应该主动规避

U.S. President Donald Trump told the New York Times that if Attorney General Jeff Sessions had indicated before being nominated to the post that he would recuse himself from the investigation of Russia's influence on last year's election then the president would have "picked someone else."

"Sessions never should have recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job," Trump said, according to a transcript of the interview released late Wednesday.

Trump added that he thinks the way Sessions proceeded was "very unfair to the president."

After Sessions recused himself, his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, appointed former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to carry out the probe, which also includes looking into any possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Committees in the Senate and House of Representatives are conducting their own investigations as well.

Trump has repeatedly insisted there was no link.

"I have done nothing wrong. A special counsel should never have been appointed in this case," he told the Times.

Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., his son-in-law and current White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his then-campaign advisor Paul Manafort met last year with a Russian attorney who said she had damaging information about Trump's Democratic opponent in the presidential race, Hillary Clinton.