Renuncia secretario de Justicia Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions Forced Out As Attorney General by Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — El secretario de Justicia Jeff Sessions renunció a su cargo, luego de soportar más de un año de críticas y comentarios despectivos por parte del presidente Donald Trump.
Sessions le entregó su carta de renuncia al presidente Trump quien en un tuit, dijo que el jefe de despacho de Sessions, Matt Whitaker, ejercerá el cargo interinamente.
Trump había criticado a Sessions por haberse recusado de la investigación sobre el presunto complot entre Rusia y la campaña de Trump para ganar las elecciones del 2016.
Trump dijo que esa decisión permitió que se inicie la investigación del fiscal especial Robert Mueller, quien a su vez indaga si los comentarios de Trump contra Sessions constituyeron obstrucción de justicia.
English:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pushed out as the country’s chief law enforcement officer after enduring more than a year of blistering and personal attacks from President Donald Trump over his recusal from the Russia investigation.
Sessions told the president in a one-page letter that he was submitting his resignation “at your request.”
Trump announced in a tweet that he was naming Sessions’ chief of staff Matthew Whitaker, a former United States attorney from Iowa, as acting attorney general.
The resignation was the culmination of a toxic relationship that frayed just weeks into the attorney general’s tumultuous tenure, when he stepped aside from the investigation into potential coordination between the president’s Republican campaign and Russia.
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’s hectoring of Sessions was part of a broader effort to obstruct justice and stymie the probe.
