US NEWS SESSIONS RESIGNS Nov 7 |At the Request of President Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns Following the Request of President Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns Mr Sessions Said in a Letter to Trump - “Dear Mr President at Your Request I Am Submitting My Resignation” ___ Mr Sessions’s Chief of Staff Matthew Whitaker Will Take Over as Acting Attorney General ___ Following the Announcement of Sessions’s Resignation Trump Said in a Tweet - “We Thank Attorney General Jeff Sessions for His Service and Wish Him Well!” ___ Trump Has Been Critical of Sessions’s Decision to Recuse Himself From the Russia Inquiry and in a 2017 Interview With the New York Times He Said - “Sessions Should Have Never Recused Himself and if He Was Going to Recuse Himself He Should Have Told Me Before He Took the Job and I Would Have Picked Somebody Else” ___ Photo Jim Watson-Afp via Getty Images