BREAKING: Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned AT TRUMP'S REQUEST so he was actually fired by Trump.
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Before becoming Trump's new acting attorney general today, Matthew Whitaker mused about defunding Mueller to kill the investigation into Trump & his campaign: "reduce Mueller's budget so low that his investigation grinds almost to a halt."
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Rod Rosenstein heads to the White House after Jeff Sessions is fired [forced to resign]. Per CNN's @LauraAJarrett, Rosenstein is expected to be at the White House at 4pm.
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Trump's new acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker – who will likely now be overseeing Mueller & the Russia probe – tweeted this piece on Aug 6, 2017: "Note to Trump's lawyer: Do not cooperate with Mueller lynch mob"
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Hello, Recusal. Nice find, @KenDilanianNBC.
Mark Whitaker, now in charge of the Mueller investigation, chaired the 2014 campaign of a grand jury witness in that investigation – Sam Clovis, who was co-chair of the 2016 Trump campaign and encouraged Papadopoulos to seek meeting with Russian officials.
Per @KlasfeldReports: Sessions' replacement, now-acting AG Matt Whitaker, sat on the advisory board at World Patent Marketing, which the @FTC shut down last year for fraud.
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Trump's new acting AG Matthew Whitaker on Jul 10, 2017, defended Don Jr's 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer [who turned out to be an a Russian govt informant] for dirt on Hillary Clinton.
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