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Article snippet: MORE’s authority and accelerate his departure from the administration. Trump delivered a forceful criticism of Sessions during an Oval Office interview with Hill.TV on Tuesday, saying that he doesn’t “have an attorney general.” And while the president has attacked Sessions in the past, Republicans say these latest remarks solidify the belief that Sessions’s days in the top law enforcement job are numbered. “You can’t be very effective if you don’t have the confidence of the president, and clearly he lost the confidence of the president a long time ago,” a former Trump transition official told The Hill. “Their relationship is so openly toxic that it is hard for him to be effective, and I think it is hard for [Capitol Hill] to take him seriously knowing or believing that his days are numbers and his influence in the administration is so limited,” the official continued. Sessions didn’t address the president’s comments as he made a trip to Illinois on Wednesday, delivering remarks at a conference and making a surprise visit to the Chicago Police Department. But Trump’s most recent attack hung over his presence and was noted by local media. Republican strategists told The Hill that despite Trump’s recent fiery attacks, Sessions is likely safe until after the midterm elections. The firing of Sessions, or his resignation, would simply add to a sense of turmoil ahead of the midterms, something unlikely to help the GOP. “I would expect that Sessions gets the Rumsfeld tre... Link to the full article to read more