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Trump's AG may recuse himself in Russia probe

Author
AAP,
Publish Date
Mon, 27 Feb 2017, 9:11AM
Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump's controversial attorney-general (Getty Images)
Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump's controversial attorney-general (Getty Images)

Trump's AG may recuse himself in Russia probe

Author
AAP,
Publish Date
Mon, 27 Feb 2017, 9:11AM

The White House isn't ruling out that Attorney General Jeff Sessions may recuse himself from Justice Department investigations into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a deputy White House press secretary, said on Sunday congressional investigations into possible Russian hacking of Democratic groups would have to run their course before Sessions needed to decide whether to step aside from the FBI probes.

Sessions was a top adviser to Trump, a Republican, during the 2016 presidential campaign.

"I wasn't saying that he shouldn't recuse himself or that he should," Sanders told ABC's This Week.

"My point is I don't think we're there yet. Let's work through this process."

Later on Sunday President Donald Trump tweeted: "Russia talk is FAKE NEWS put out by the Dems, and played up by the media, in order to mask the big election defeat and the illegal leaks!"

US intelligence analysts have concluded that Russia tried to help Trump win the White House by discrediting Clinton and her Democratic Party through cyber attacks. President Barack Obama, a Democrat, expelled Russian diplomats in retaliation in December.

Moscow has denied the accusations.

The FBI is pursuing of alleged Russian election-related hacking and of financial transactions by Russian people and companies who are believed to have links to associates of Trump, according to current and former government officials.

Trump fired his national security adviser, Michael Flynn, three weeks into the new administration after revelations surfaced that he had discussed US sanctions on Russia with the Russian ambassador to the United States before Trump took office and misled Vice President Mike Pence about the conversations.

Democrats have been pushing for an independent investigation into whether there were links between the Trump campaign team and Russian officials.

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