Trump Reportedly Floating 5 Different Names to Replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
President Donald Trump believes Attorney General Jeff Sessions will likely leave his Cabinet at the end of the year, and so far has five potential replacements in mind who could take his place, reports Business Insider.
“Possible successors include retired federal appeals judge Janice Rogers Brown, transportation department counsel Steven Bradbury, Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar, deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, and Bill Barr, who served as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush,” according to the article, based on a Wall Street Journal report.
The Washington Post also reported that President Trump talked recently with Sessions’ own chief of staff, Matthew G. Whitaker, about replacing Sessions as AG, according to people briefed on the conversation, signaling that the president remains keenly interested in ousting his top law enforcement official.
Read the Business Insider article.
