Injured by Trump following investigation of Russia, Sessions as Attorney General

From Sarah N. Lynch

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US Attorney General Jeff Sessions was sacked Wednesday following repeated criticism of President Donald Trump over his challenge after an investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 presidential race.

The start of the sessions was to be held soon after the congressional elections Tuesday when Republicans retained their majority in the Senate but lost control of the House of Representatives.

Never in modern history has a president so frequently and severely attacked a cabinet member as Trump, 71, one of the first members of Congress to support his presidential campaign in 2015.

Trump announced the departure of Sessions on Twitter and thanked him for his service. Sessions said in a letter to Trump that he had resigned at the request of the president. Chief of Staff Sessions, Matthew Whitaker, will be Acting Attorney General, Trump said on Twitter.

Sessions go in as the country's law enforcement officer, while special advocate Robert Mueller, who operates under the auspices of the Ministry of the Interior, Justice, Investigation of Russia which has already given rise to a series of criminal proceedings against several Trump badociates and continued its presidency.

In an opinion piece written for CNN in August 2017 while he was a commentator for the network, Whitaker, a former US attorney said that Mueller would cross a border when he was investigating Trump family finances.

Republicans have repeatedly called on Trump not to exclude Sessions, a former conservative Republican senator from Alabama, prior to the elections, for fear that this will create political spinoffs. They also argued that the sessions should benefit from a graceful exit after the scrupulous completion of Trump's program regarding clandestine immigration and other priorities of the administration.

RECUSAL OVER RUSSIA

Trump had only entered a few weeks in his presidency in March 2017, when the sessions were turned upside down. him. Rejecting White House pleas for not doing so, Sessions has stepped away from the task of overseeing the Federal Bureau's investigation into a possible collusion between Trump's presidential campaign and Moscow. The sessions gave rise to reports of meetings during which he had talks with the Russian Ambbadador in Washington (1965).

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein took over the supervision of the investigation conducted in Russia and, in May 2017, appointed Mueller as special advisor to the Ministry of Justice. on the FBI investigation in Russia after Trump fired FBI director James Comey. Rosenstein has also been the subject of criticism from Trump.

The US Senate must confirm the permanent replacement of Sessions, which Trump's Republicans will continue to control following Tuesday's midterm elections.

Mueller is currently pursuing an extensive investigation. if Trump's campaign was colluding with Russia, if Trump had illegally attempted to obstruct the investigation and financial misconduct of Trump's family and badociates. Mueller has laid charges against former campaign chairman Trump and other campaign personalities, as well as against 25 Russians and three companies accused of interfering in the campaign to help Trump win .

Trump denied having led his campaign with Russia.

Trump publicly regretted the recusal of Sessions and stated that he regretted having appointed him. On Twitter, he called the sessions "very weak" and urged him to end the investigation on Russia. In July 2017, he told the New York Times that had he known that Sessions would recuse himself, he would never have appointed the attorney general.

Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward wrote in his book "Fear" that Trump, speaking to a White Secretary of the House criticized the sessions by calling them "mentally retarded" and "silly southerner" while mocking his accent.

In the weeks following Mueller's appointment, it was reported that Sessions had offered his resignation. The sessions were generally silent in the face of Trump's criticism, but defended themselves in February 2018 after a tweet of critics criticizing his work stating that he would perform his task "with integrity and honor".

REACTION TO TRUMP

In August, Sessions Marked After Trump had stated in an interview with Fox News that Sessions "never took control of the Department of Justice". Sessions issued a statement in which he baderted that he "took control of the Justice Department on the day of my swearing in" and pledged not to let him "unduly influenced by political considerations" .

Regarding his own involvement with Russia, Sessions was questioned in January by Mueller's team and proposed staggered public accounts. He said nothing improbable during his talks with Ambbadador Sergei Kislyak during the campaign. In a testimony before Congress in November, he recalled that he was remembering a meeting during the 2016 campaign during which a campaign advisor, in Trump's presence, proposed to use its relations with Moscow to organize a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Critics, Sessions has aggressively applied conservative policies of the administration. Before becoming a senator, he was an accusing prosecutor known for his resolute approach to crime and, in the Justice Department, he placed the fight against drugs, violent crime and illegal immigration at the top of the agenda. Department of Justice.

Federal funding of so-called sanctuaries cities and states, generally ruled by Democrats, which he accused of protecting illegal immigrants from deportation. His lawsuit against California incited his governor to accuse the administration of declaration of war to the most populated of the United States.

The sittings announce Trump's decision to cancel the protections afforded to young adults unlawfully brought into the country. He supported the ban on Trump's entry of people from several Muslim-majority countries.

The sessions also gave prosecutors the green light to aggressively enforce federal laws against marijuana in states where it has been decriminalized and restrict the rights of transgender students. .

(Sarah N. Lynch Report, Bill Trott Writing, Edited by Will Dunham and Howard Goller)

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