WASHINGTON (AP) – The controversy over any Kremlin involvement in American politics isn’t fading away anytime soon.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is now the second high-ranking member of the Trump administration to take a hit over conversations with Russia’s envoy to the U.S.
Sessions is recusing himself from any probe that examines communications between Trump aides and Moscow.
The recusal follows a chorus of demands that Sessions resolve the seeming contradiction between his two conversations with Moscow’s U.S. envoy and his statements to Congress in January that he had not communicated with Russians during the campaign.
It carries echoes of a similar controversy involving retired Gen. Michael Flynn, who two weeks ago resigned as national security adviser after misleading White House officials about his own discussions with the Russian official.