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And he made the announcement the way he loves best: he did it on Twitter:
"We are pleased to announce that Matthew G. Whitaker, Chief of Staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the Department of Justice, will become our new Acting Attorney General of the United States. He will serve our country well. ..."
....We thank Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his service, and wish him well! A permanent replacement will be nominated at a later date.
Sessions issued his own resignation letter in which he admitted that he was resigning at the president's request. He explained in the letter that "we have restored and upheld the rule of law--a glorious tradition that each of us has a responsibility to safeguard. We have operated with integrity and have lawfully and aggressively advanced the policy agenda of this administration."
When Sessions had recused himself from the Mueller investigation it negatively impacted on the president's relationship with him and it seemed that Sessions' firing would eventually be a sure thing based on Trump's history of how he dealt with those who oppose him.
For certain, Sessions was no Eric Holder. He ran the DOJ honestly and did his duty, not as a "Wingman" for the president as Holder said he was to Obama, but as an honest chief law enforcement officer of the United States.
It's unknown whether Whitaker will do anything to impede or end the Mueller investigation, only time will tell as it seems to be coming to a conclusion anyway.
We also need to wait and see who Trump will select to replace Sessions, but with the new Senate majority, it will be fairly easy to do so.
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