Jeff Sessions Is Forced Out as Attorney General as Trump Installs Loyalist - The New York Times

Jeff Sessions Is Forced Out as Attorney General as Trump Installs Loyalist - The New York Times President Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday, replacing him with a loyalist who has echoed the president’s complaints about the special counsel investigation into Russia’s election interference and will now take charge of the inquiry.

Mr. Sessions delivered his resignation letter to the White House at the request of the president, who tapped Matthew G. Whitaker, Mr. Sessions’s chief of staff, as acting attorney general, raising questions about the future of the inquiry led by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.