Trump ousts Attorney General Jeff Sessions
By Allan Smith
Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned Wednesday at President Donald Trump's request.
The announcement came the day after the midterm elections. He submitted his letter of resignation earlier Wednesday.
Trump announced the resignation on Twitter. The president has repeatedly criticized Sessions, particularly for recusing himself from the Russia investigation.
Sessions' departure after the midterms was not unexpected.
Trump was asked about Sessions' future during a lengthy press conference Wednesday afternoon. At the time, he declined to comment on whether Sessions would be leaving the administration.
"I'd rather answer that at a little bit different time," Trump said, adding that he was "looking at different people for different positions." He commented that Cabinet-level changes were "very common after the midterms."
Trump named Matthew Whitaker, Sessions' chief of staff, as acting attorney general.
Whitaker, a U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Iowa from 2003-09 and Sessions' chief of staff since late 2017, was a conservative legal commentator. He wrote an opinion column for CNN before joining the Justice Department titled "Mueller's investigation into Trump is going too far."
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