"But for much of Wednesday, the White House was indulging in a rare pleasure – basking in the glow of much favourable news reporting and commentary on Trump's well-received speech to the joint houses of Congress on Tuesday night.
But that glow lasted only till 9.30 Wednesday evening, when coverage of Trump's "presidential" performance at the Capitol was knocked down by a Washington Post's blockbuster report: Trump's new Attorney General, former Alabama senator Jeff Sessions, had been sprung failing to disclose that he had met Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak twice last year.
Sessions had failed to disclose the meetings when asked during a bitter Senate confirmation hearing by which he was appointed as the country's top law officer.
This is doubly embarrassing for Trump. On February 13 he sacked his recently appointed National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, after The Post revealed that Flynn lied about his own communications with ambassador Kislyak in the transition between presidencies. To lose his attorney-general so soon after, and for the same reason, would be mortifying.
