Former President Obama on Tuesday warned against allowing the attorney general to become the president’s “consigliere,” emphasizing the need for the nation’s top prosecutor to remain independent of political influence. Obama made the comments during an interview on CBS’s “The Late Show” as the Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Trump pursues a number of…
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Obama: Attorney general is ‘not the president’s consigliere’
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Originally reported by The Hill
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