After Congressional Elections: Trump Ends the Work of the Minister of Justice

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NOTJust one day after the US congressional elections, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions is due to step down in the administration of President Donald Trump. He thanks the sessions for his services and wishes him good luck, wrote Trump on Twitter Wednesday afternoon. In a letter, the sessions announced that he would resign at the request of the president. According to Trump, the Chief of Staff Sessions, Matthew G. Whitaker, will now temporarily badume the position of Minister of Justice until he appoints a successor.

Democrats in Congress have called for an investigation to determine the "real reason" for these "layoffs," said Democratic MEP Elijah Cummings. Cummings said that if President Donald Trump asked for the resignation of Sessions to interfere in Russia's investigations, that would be unacceptable.

Cummings, who will chair the House's Oversight Council from January, called on Congress to be vigilant about the new staffing implications for the Russia inquiry. Parliament must "confirm" that the acting director of the Ministry of Justice, Whittaker, will withdraw from Moscow's investigations into interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Sessions have long since failed

The sessions were poorly maintained with Trump a long time ago. Trump had criticized him several times in recent months. The background is that he was kept out of the Russian investigation for bias.

As Attorney General, the sessions were under the supervision of the FBI and would in fact have been responsible for the investigation conducted by Special Investigator Robert Mueller, who verifies whether there was collusion between the election campaign of Moscow and Trump during the alleged attempts of Russian influence on the 2016 election.

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The sessions had met during the election campaign the Russian ambbadador to Washington, Sergei Kisljak. At a hearing before the Senate, however, he denied that, although he was under oath. That's why he stays out of the investigation on Russia – which displeases Trump tremendously. The president had even urged the justice minister on Twitter to put an end to the investigation.

Trump's Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives for Democrats in Tuesday's elections, but their majority in the Senate claims. The president said at a press conference Wednesday that staff changes after mid-term are normal.