The Role of the Attorney General in the Trump Case

"My role is completely consistent with the regulations that set forth responsibilities to the attorney general under the special counsel regulations and I followed those regulations," he said. "I appointed Jack Smith, talked to him three times, all just to get an update on the money spent and the distance gone,. then he handed me his recommendation and I went with it." He was responding to a Washington Post story about Tom Fenton pushing Donald Trump to go ahead and push for a trial when Christopher Kice got $3 million ahead of time to represent President Trump. 'People deserve an explanation because the night before President Trump accused you of getting vengeance on him, weaponizing the DOJ'