President Donald Trump announced Attorney General Jeff Sessions is leaving his administration just moments after holding a press conference with reporters at the White House Wednesday afternoon.
“We thank Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his service, and wish him well!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
Sessions submitted his resignation to the president which he accepted. Trump said that Matthew G. Whitaker, the Chief of Staff for Sessions, would serve as Acting Attorney General in his place.
“A permanent replacement will be nominated at a later date,” he said.
A copy of Sessions’ resignation letter said the move was “at your [Trump’s] request.”
Sessions wrote in his
resignation letter to Trump that he was submitting it “at your request.”
“I have been honored to serve as Attorney General and have worked to implement the law enforcement agenda based on the rule of law that formed a central part of your campaign for the presidency,” he wrote.
Trump declined to answer questions about Sessions during his press conference earlier Wednesday afternoon.
Sessions was long rumored to leave the administration as attorney general after the midterm elections and the president moved quickly to replace him.
A Department of Justice spokesperson confirmed to Breitbart News that Whitaker would reassert control of the Mueller Russia investigation, which was under the purvue of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein after Sessions recused himself in March 2017.
That decision angered Trump, remaining a festering frustration for the president, especially since Sessions did not inform him prior to the announcement.
A.G. JEFF SESSIONS DEFENDS U.S. BORDERS AGAINST THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND MEXICO’S INVASION.
"Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens. Yet in cities where the crime these aliens commit is highest, the police cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status. In Los Angeles, for example, dozens of members of a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang have sneaked back into town after having been deported for such crimes as murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and drug trafficking." HEATHER MAC DONALD
“Heroin is not produced in the United States. Every gram of heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal evidence of a failure of border security because every gram of heroin was smuggled into the United States. Indeed, this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017 when he again raised the need to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect American lives.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com
CJNG is one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico and the Department of Justice considers it to be one of the five most dangerous transnational criminal organizations in the world — responsible for trafficking tons of cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl-laced heroin into the United States.
THE CLINTONS AND RED CHINA:
A MONEY MAKING TRAITORSHIP!
"Ask Jeff Sessions about the charges. Money was flowing into the Clinton Foundation from all over the world, disguised, rerouted through a Canadian charity, all to obscure its origins."
Attorney General Jeff Sessions blasts Trump’s DACA sell out…. Will Sessions move to impeach the Swamp Keeper who hired 70 illegals to work “cheap” at Mar-a-Lago?
DACA THIEVES: WAVING THEIR MEX FLAGS IN OUR FACES AND THEN CASHING THEIR WELFARE CHECKS
JOBLESS AMERICA: Push 2 for English and go to the end of the line of illegals!
95 MILLION AMERICANS (Legals) HAVE NO WORK AS THE BORDERS ARE FLOODED WITH FOREIGNERS SUCKING UP JOBS, WELFARE AND VOTING DEMOCRAT FOR MORE!
SHOCKING IMAGES OF CARTELS ON U.S. BORDERS:
“Heroin is not produced in the United States. Every gram of heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal evidence of a failure of border security because every gram of heroin was smuggled into the United States. Indeed, this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017 when he again raised the need to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect American lives.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com
JEFF SESSION’S LONG BATTLE FOR THE AMERICAN WORKER
He is the only one in the country that has consistently spoken out for the AMERICAN WORKER!
Sessions should keep dragging Trump out of his amnesty closet and build the wall against NARCOMEX!
“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of American citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIALWATCH
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“Mexican authorities have arrested the former mayor of a rural community in the border state of Coahuila in connection with the kidnapping, murder and incineration of hundreds of victims through a network of ovens at the hands of the Los Zetas cartel. The arrest comes after Breitbart Texas exposed not only the horrors of the mass extermination, but also the cover-up and complicity of the Mexican government.”
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“Heroin is not produced in the United States. Every gram of heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal evidence of a failure of border security because every gram of heroin was smuggled into the United States. Indeed, this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017 when he again raised the need to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect American lives.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com
THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS OPERATING IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
Overall, in the 2017 Fiscal Year, officials revealed that a record-breaking 455,000 pounds plus of drugs had already been seized. In 2016, that number amounted to 443,000 pounds. The 2017 haul is worth an estimated $6.1 billion – BREITBART – JEFF SESSION’S DRUG BUST ON SAN DIEGO
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/09/20/ag-sessions-touts-record-breaking-drug-seizure-san-diego/’
Sessions, the left, and hypocrisy
In the end, Trump had them marching for a man they hate.
The scuttlebutt currently in Washington, D.C., is that Robert Mueller is drafting his final report, wrapping up his nearly two-year-long probe. There’s no timetable for its release, but, presumably, once it’s out, we’ll find out how suburban soccer moms in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, were tricked into voting Trump by hypnotic Facebook ads planted by shtetl-dwelling trolls.
Before all that, Mueller has to survive a change of leadership. Just after the midterm elections when Democrats took back the House of Representatives, President Trump insisted on and received the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
The move, which came in the President’s patented news-dropping form of a tweet, was hardly surprising. Congressional Republicans hinted that Trump would force Sessions out following the elections. What was unexpected was Democrats’ reaction to the firing of the nation’s top lawman.
Just hours after his dismissal, liberals, fearing that the Mueller probe was now in danger, marched on Union Square in New York City to voice their disagreement with Sessions’ firing. The protesters’ sign bore the cant synonymous with liberal sloganeering: “Hands off Mueller,” “Repeal, Replace Trump,” “This is what democracy looks like.”
The next day, protests took placenationwide in deep-blue metropolises like Seattle and Boston. Many were organized by MoveOn.org, the liberal advocacy site founded to protect Bill Clinton after he lied under oath. Integrity under the law, it would seem, is only a Republican matter.
The rallies were a sight to behold: thousands of middle-to-upper-class white liberals gathered in de facto support of Sessions, a man whom they spent the better part of two years impugning.
Congressional Democrats weren’t immune to cognitive dissonance. Likely speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi called Sessions’ ousting a “blatant attempt” of Trump’s to undermine Mueller. Just last year, Pelosi designated Sessions “not fit to serve as the top law enforcement officer of our country and must resign.”
Presumed 2020 presidential candidate and Native American impersonator Elizabeth Warren criticized Sessions’ firing despite also once demanding his resignation. “Sessions cannot continue to serve. He should resign,” she tweeted last year. Now she’s treating Trump’s granting of her wish like a smallpox blanket.
If elected Democrats or their picketing toadies had any semblance of principle, they’d be cheering Sessions departure. The long-time Alabama senator was brutal on issues close to liberals’ hearts: unapologetically prosecuting illegal drug use; vigorously enforced immigration law; increasing deportations; separating and interning families illegally crossing the southern border; ending an Obama-era proscription on selling military weaponry to local police; putting financial pressure on so-dubbed sanctuary cities where localized law enforcement refuses to cooperate with federal immigration officials.
Sessions was a stickler for the rule of law. His philosophy was simple and inelegant: What’s written is enforced -- no exceptions, no loopholes, no penumbras. Ann Coulter has argued quite convincingly that Sessions was “the one member of Trump’s Cabinet making good on his campaign’s immigration promises.”
We don’t yet know how Sessions’ acting replacement, Matthew Whitaker, will be as the nation’s number-one law enforcer. Will he act on his previous criticism of the Mueller probe and protect the President from the special counsel’s overreach? Will he be a hardliner on law enforcement, or take a more arbitrary approach? Will his recess appointment even stand up to a constitutional challenge?
None of these questions matter to liberals, who have dropped years’ worth of grievances to find yet another reason to whinge about Trump. Theirs was never a principled objection. It was just another means to weaken a president they didn’t elect in order to secure power for themselves.
Our current politics increasingly and regrettably resembles powermongering over honest disagreement on the common good. The crocodile tears over Sessions’ firing are just another example of liberals stomping on sincerity to score political points.
“The most significant lesson of the Trump era in American politics is that no one actually cares about so-called ‘norms’ or ethics or hoary phrases like ‘separation of powers,’ observes Matthew Walther. Democrats have adopted this nihilism without a hint of self-awareness. This doesn’t bode well for the country should they take back even more control of the federal governmental apparatus.
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