{"id":157347,"date":"2018-11-07T14:32:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T20:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=157347"},"modified":"2018-11-07T14:32:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T20:32:43","slug":"trump-asks-a-g-jeff-sessions-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=157347","title":{"rendered":"Trump asks A.G. Jeff Sessions to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-143565\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sessionsjeff-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sessionsjeff-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sessionsjeff-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sessionsjeff-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sessionsjeff-267x175.jpg 267w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sessionsjeff.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014\u00a0 Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned as the country&#8217;s chief law enforcement officer at President Donald Trump&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions announced his plan to resign in a letter to the White House on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump announced in a tweet that Sessions&#8217; chief of staff Matt Whitaker would become the new acting attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general had endured more than a year of stinging and personal criticism from Trump over his recusal from the investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Trump blamed the decision for opening the door to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, who took over the Russia investigation and began examining whether Trump&#8217;s hectoring of Sessions was part of a broader effort to obstruct justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014\u00a0 Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned as the country&#8217;s chief law enforcement officer at President Donald Trump&#8217;s request. Sessions announced his plan to resign in a letter to the White House on Wednesday. Trump announced in a tweet that Sessions&#8217; chief of staff Matt Whitaker would become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157348,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157347\/revisions\/157348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}