Attorney General Jeff Sessions would’ve had to recuse himself from any and all investigations into the Trump campaign regardless of any meetings he may or may not have had, a Department of Justice spokeswoman said Tuesday.

“His recusal was based on the fact that he was a senior adviser to the Trump campaign and that was specific in the Department of Justice regulations that if you’re a senior adviser on the campaign, you have to recuse yourself from any investigation into that campaign,” Sarah Isgur Flores, DOJ spokeswoman, said on Fox News.

Ms. Flores also explained that a CNN report from May, claiming Mr. Sessions did not reveal meetings he had with Russian officials on his security clearance forms, was a clerical error. Newly released documents show that the FBI advised an aide to the attorney general that Mr. Sessions wasn’t required to disclose that meeting since he was acting in his capacity as a senator.

Mr. Sessions has been criticized by President Trump and his supporters for immediately recusing himself from the Russia investigation, with some saying that it shows there’s some validation to the claims of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

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