"After many years of LEAKS going on in Washington, it is great to see the AG taking action! For National Security, the tougher the better!" Trump wrote on Twitter from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Sessions had been the public target of the president's anger recently because he had recused himself from a probe into allegations that Trump's aides coordinated with Russia to tilt last year's election in his favor.
At one point, Trump told The New York Times he would never have appointed Sessions had he known he would recuse himself. Trump also took to Twitter to blast Sessions as "VERY weak," among other criticisms on social media.
The attacks were widely seen as designed to force Sessions into resigning.
However, the former Alabama senator appeared to be on Trump's good side yesterday after launching a high-profile campaign to crack down on government employees who leak classified or sensitive information to the media.
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