Whitaker, former acting U.S. attorney general, leaves Justice Dept

WASHINGTON - Matthew Whitaker, whose brief tenure as acting U.S. attorney general was marred by accusations he might try to interfere in a probe of President Donald Trump’s campaign, left his Justice Department job over the weekend, a department spokeswoman confirmed on Monday.

In mid-February, Attorney General William Barr was sworn in and Whitaker stepped down from the top post to become a senior counselor in the office of the associate attorney general. Whitaker first joined the Justice Department as former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ chief of staff in the autumn of 2017. Trump handpicked him as acting attorney general in November after the president ousted Sessions.

The Justice Department also faced a backlash in the form of multiple lawsuits alleging Whitaker’s appointment violated the U.S. Constitution and the federal law governing succession at the department.

Why?

You can bet that he will back in Washington soon to do a little explaining.

He embarrassed Iowa, F this dude. Seriously we are mostly good people. Like some of the people are great. A handful of us are excellent dinner guests. I knew a gal once who was really awesome...

How long was he acting USAG, expressed in Scaramuccis?!?

Looks like your time is up.

Bye-bye Trump guy

He was acting AG, planned to leave this week. Folks tweeting as if this was surprising, jumping ship, need to read the news a bit more.

Aw, so sorry to hear that! snark I wonder what the reason he gave for resigning or was he forced out? Any one know? Perhaps it’s hard to go from the 2nd in line to first in line and then back down to some where else down the line. Everyone at DOJ knew he was peddling to /1

Did he even get his 90 days in?

Sorry to see him go And yes your 5 minutes are up as well

Job at Fox News yet?

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