--- title: White House: President Trump Has Confidence in Jeff Sessions description: President Trump has confidence in Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a White House spokesperson said. canonical: https://time.com/4811331/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-confidence/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-08T17:08:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T05:20:25.839Z article:section: Politics og:title: White House: President Trump Has Confidence in Jeff Sessions og:description: After speculation that Trump was dissatisfied. og:url: https://time.com/4811331/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-confidence/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7478bb2c24ab583/6988ced4cf40a87229c47d69/gettyimages-6823067781.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Attorney General Jeff Sessions Receives Award From The Sergeants Benevolent Association of New York City og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: White House: President Trump Has Confidence in Jeff Sessions twitter:description: After speculation that Trump was dissatisfied. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7478bb2c24ab583/6988ced4cf40a87229c47d69/gettyimages-6823067781.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # White House: President Trump Has Confidence in Jeff Sessions > Sponsored content. 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Win McNamee—Getty Images by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Jun 8, 2017 5:08 PM UTC President Trump has confidence in Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a White House spokesperson said, after nearly 48 hours of uncertainty about his position in the Administration. “Absolutely,” White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday when asked about the former Alabama senator, “the president has confidence in all of his Cabinet.” It capped a tumultuous week for the relationship, beginning with [reports](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/us/politics/trump-discontent-attorney-general-jeff-sessions.html) that Trump was increasing frustrated by his Attorney General and that Sessions at one point [offered to tender his resignation](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/us/politics/jeff-sessions-donald-trump.html) to the president. Press Secretary Sean Spicer, when asked if Trump had confidence in Sessions on Tuesday, told reporters, “I have not had a discussion with him about that.” More than 24 hours later, aboard Air Force One, Sanders told reporters, “I haven’t had a chance to have an extensive conversation with him today but I certainly plan to ask him that.” Sanders said she finally spoke with Trump about Sessions late Wednesday. The statement of support for Sessions comes as former FBI Director James Comey’s [Capitol Hill testimony](http://time.com/4810345/james-comey-testimony-real-time-transcript/) raised new questions about the information that led to his decision to recuse himself from the ongoing Russia investigation. “We were also aware of facts that I can’t disclose in an open setting,” Comey testified on why his department believed Sessions would recuse himself weeks before he made that decision public. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4811331/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-confidence/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4811331/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-confidence/"},"headline":"White House: President Trump Has Confidence in Jeff Sessions","datePublished":"2017-06-08T17:08:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T05:20:25.839Z","description":"President Trump has confidence in Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a White House spokesperson said.","url":"https://time.com/4811331/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-confidence/","keywords":["White House","justice","Donald Trump","James Comey","Jeff Sessions"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7478bb2c24ab583/6988ced4cf40a87229c47d69/gettyimages-6823067781.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Zeke Miller","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7478bb2c24ab583/6988ced4cf40a87229c47d69/gettyimages-6823067781.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Attorney General Jeff Sessions Receives Award From The Sergeants Benevolent Association of New York City","caption":"Attorney General Jeff Sessions Receives Award From The Sergeants Benevolent Association of New York City","creditText":"Win McNamee—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4811331/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-confidence/","name":"White House: President Trump Has Confidence in Jeff Sessions"}}]}] ```