Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigns

President Donald Trump tweeted the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions Wednesday morning.

According to the Associated Press, Mathew G. Whitaker, Chief of Staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions is set to become the new Acting Attorney General of the United States.

Sessions announced his plan to resign in a letter to the White House on Wednesday at President Donald Trump’s request.

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.

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.

President Trump thanked Sessions for his service and wished him well.

We will have more details as this story develops.