Boxed in: Trump livid with Jeff Sessions but felt no choice but to keep him or another firestorm

President Donald Trump remains livid with Jeff Sessions but understands that accepting the attorney general’s resignation would ignite yet another firestorm around his beleaguered administration, a person close to him said Wednesday.

Trump is keenly aware of the chain of consequences that unfolded after his firing of FBI Director James Comey in May, that have consumed his White House ever since, the person said on Wednesday.

Sessions and the President have had a series of heated exchanges in recent weeks, prompted by the attorney general’s decision to recuse himself from the probe into Russia interference in the election and alleged collusion by Trump aides, a source close to Sessions told CNN on Tuesday…

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