Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigns!
WASHINGTON (PNN) - November 7, 2018 - Embattled Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned at the request of President Donald Trump on Wednesday after more than a year of public criticism from the president.
Sessions’ chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, will serve as acting attorney general, Trump announced.
Whitaker also will assume oversight of the ongoing investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and possible collusion by Trump’s campaign in that meddling.