Updated at 5:37 p.m. ET
Attorney General Jeff Sessions answered needling by President Trump on Thursday with a vow that as long as he runs the Justice Department, it won’t be swayed by politics.
Sessions’ statement was a rare broadside in response to TV and Twitter criticism by Trump of the department, which he and supporters accuse of perpetuating a “witch hunt” in the Russia investigation and going soft on Democrats.
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