WASHINGTON _ President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions less than 24 hours after the midterms results came in.
Sessions was the first and perhaps most enthusiastic sitting senator to endorse Trump's presidential campaign, but his departure comes as no surprise. His removal was long expected after Trump spent much of Sessions' tenure berating the former Alabama Republican senator after he recused himself from the Russia investigation.
"I don't have an attorney general," Trump once said of Sessions, making clear he wanted an attorney general who would protect him. Sessions, a former member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, recused himself because he had been one of Trump's campaign advisers during the period that other campaign staff met with Russians about opposition research on Democrat Hillary Clinton.
