Preet Bharara suggests Sessions is ‘the weakest and most craven Attorney General in modern times’

Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara suggested Saturday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is the “weakest and most craven Attorney General in modern times.”

“Once upon a time I thought Alberto Gonzales was the weakest and most craven Attorney General in modern times. I was wrong,” Bharara tweeted.

Once upon a time I thought Alberto Gonzales was the weakest and most craven Attorney General in modern times. I was wrong.

— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) March 17, 2018

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Bharara’s tweet came just hours after Sessions fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. President Trump fired Bharara last year after Bharara refused to resign from his post. 

Bharara was referring to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who served under former President George W. Bush.

Gonzales was criticized for supporting the Bush administration’s policy on torture, and faced accusations that the Justice Department improperly eavesdropped on American citizens under his watch. He was also scrutinized over the removal of several U.S. attorneys.

Sessions fired McCabe on Friday just two days before McCabe was set to retire and be eligible for his pension, reportedly following months of Trump upping the pressure to get rid of the deputy director.

The attorney general said that McCabe hadn’t been forthcoming with investigators during an internal review, and had made an improper disclosure to the media.

McCabe claimed that he was fired to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s election interference, in which McCabe could be a key witness.

McCabe served as acting director of the FBI in the weeks after Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey.