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RSS FeedsTrump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions, endangering Mueller investigation
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8 november 2018 02:20:46

 
Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions, endangering Mueller investigation
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump has fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions and replaced him with a public critic of Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia, significantly increasing the chances that Mueller will be fired or otherwise thwarted.Trump forced Sessions’s resignation the day after the midterm congressional elections in which Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives. He named Matthew Whitaker, a Republican lawyer who has called for Mueller to be ordered to narrow his work, as the acting attorney general. Trump did not explain himself, but he had long fumed about Sessions’s decision to recuse himself from the Russia matter. Because of the recusal, Mueller was being supervised by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who had appeared to give the special counsel free rein.With Sessions out of the picture, Mueller will likely now report to Whitaker, a former federal prosecutor and Republican political candidate who had served as Sessions’s chief of staff.Democrats were generally opposed to Sessions. But they responded with alarm to Sessions’s ouster and to Whitaker’s appointment, worried Trump’s moves were the beginning of an effort to use his office to thwart or terminate Mueller.“It’s clear that AG Sessions resignation is the first step toward removing the special counsel and burying his findings before Democrats take power next year. We can’t let that happen,” Rep. Ted Deutch, the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee, said on Twitter.The American Civil Liberties Union said on Twitter: “Jeff Sessions was the worst attorney general in modern American history. Period. But the dismissal of the nation’s top law enforcement official shouldn’t be based on political motives.”Subscribe to the Star to support our reporting on U.S. political news — and what it means for Canada.A month b ...


 
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