- 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) (UNRESTRICTED POOL) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS WALKING OUTSIDE OF DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND WAVING GOODBYE AND SHAKING HANDS WITH PEOPLE SESSIONS SHAKING HANDS HIS FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF, MATTHEW WHITAKER, WHO WILL SERVE AS ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL
- 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: LVA00195ID9ON
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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: POOL (CAN SELL)
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