President Donald Trump said Thursday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions would stay in his post until at least the November midterm elections, according to a new report.
Trump's comment on Sessions' fate, made during an interview with reporters from Bloomberg on Thursday afternoon, comes after multiple Republican lawmakers have called on the president not to fire Sessions.
Sessions, who was one of the president's earliest supporters in Congress during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, has been a regular target of Trump's rage since he recused himself from any investigations of Russian interference during that presidential contest.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has since taken the helm of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian meddling during the election.
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment.
--CNBC's Jacob Pramuk contributed to this report.
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