Article snippet: WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions had a tenuous hold on his job when President Donald Trump called him at home in the middle of 2017. The president had already blamed him for recusing himself from investigations related to the 2016 election, sought his resignation and belittled him in private and on Twitter. Now, Trump had another demand: He wanted Sessions to reverse his recusal and order the prosecution of Hillary Clinton. “The ‘gist’ of the conversation,” according to the report by the special counsel, Robert Mueller, quoting Sessions, “was that the president wanted Sessions to unrecuse from ‘all of it.’” Mueller’s report released last week brimmed with examples of Trump seeking to protect himself from the investigation. But his request of Sessions — and two similar ones detailed in the report — stands apart because it shows Trump trying to wield the power of law enforcement to target a political rival, a step that no president since Richard M. Nixon is known to have taken. And at the time Trump pressured Sessions, the president was already under investigation for potentially obstructing justice and knew that his top aides and Cabinet members were being interviewed in that inquiry. Trump wanted Clinton investigated for her use of a private email server to conduct government business while secretary of state, the report said, even though investigators had examined her conduct and declined to bring charges in a case closed in 2016. No evidence has emer... Link to the full article to read more