- Title: Sessions heads home after he is forced out as Attorney General
- Date: 7th November 2018
- Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C. UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 7, 2018) (REUTERS) SESSIONS BEING CHASED BY REPORTERS AS HE ARRIVES AT HIS HOME AND IS ESCORTED INSIDE HIS HOUSE BY SECURITY OFFICIALS
- Embargoed: 21st November 2018 23:01
- Keywords: Trump Sessions Attorney General firing
- Location: WASHINGTON, D.C. UNITED STATES
- City: WASHINGTON, D.C. UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA00395ID9ON
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- Story Text:President Donald Trump on Wednesday (November 7) forced out Attorney General Jeff Sessions a day after congressional elections, and vowed to fight if the U.S. House of Representatives' new Democratic majority launches probes into his administration.
Sessions - an early Trump supporter who ran afoul of the president by recusing himself from an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 White House campaign - said in a letter to Trump that he had submitted his resignation "at your request."
The 71-year-old former U.S. senator was informed on Wednesday morning by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly in a phone call that it was time to go, said an aide who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Sessions' departure was the first in what could be a string of high-profile exits as Trump reshapes his team to gird for his own 2020 re-election effort. The Republican president named Sessions' chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, as acting attorney general and said he would nominate someone for the job soon. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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