President Donald Trump defended embattled Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday night, calling the former Alabama senator “an honest man” and accusing Democrats of “a total witch hunt.”
It is the sixth time Trump has used that term on Twitter.
Many Democrats called for Sessions to resign after a report that Sessions had met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak twice last year, appearing to contradict what he said during his Senate confirmation hearings.
During the hearings, Sessions said, “I have been called a surrogate a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians.”
Sessions said Thursday he would recuse himself from all Trump-related investigations.
The president, however, placed the blame on Democrats and “illegal leaks of classified and other information.”