WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's withering invective about Jeff Sessions over the last week suggests an effort to pressure the attorney general into resigning with a possible eye toward replacing him and ending the Justice Department investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Trump has shown one attorney general the door already, but his January dismissal of Sally Yates had limited repercussions since she was an Obama administration holdover days away from her own departure. The firing or resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions could set off a frenzied — and confusing — chain reaction of monumental consequences.