Trump fired the prosecutor general. Will the investigation of Russia's interference in the elections will now be terminated?

Jeff Sessnes. Photo by the US Ministry of Justice

US President Donald Trump achieved the resignation of Prosecutor General Jeff Sehns, who repeatedly criticized his position to investigate the possible intervention of Russia in the US election. This personnel rearrangement can lead to the dismissal of the head of the special prosecutor Robert Muller and even the complete folding of the investigation himself.

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And although Seshns himself filed a request for a resignation in the name of the president of the country Donald Trump, in a message about his dismissal, he made it clear that he was not out of his own free will . “Dear Mr. President, at your request, I resign,” he wrote.

Sehns will be temporarily replaced by the head of the office of the department, Matthew Whaytekter, who will become the acting US Prosecutor General. Trump promised to appoint a permanent prosecutor general later.

“We thank the Prosecutor General of Jeff Sehns for his service and wish him all the best!” - wrote Trump on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1060256623439110146

The reason for the resignation

The resignation was not a complete surprise.

• Earlier, the president has repeatedly sharply criticized Sessions, a former Senator from Alabama, who supported Trump at an early stage of his presidential campaign. The head of state was extremely dissatisfied with the decision of Seshns to retire from the investigation about the possible intervention of Russia in the American elections. For example, in July 2017, Trump told The New York Times that Seshns should warn him in advance that he wanted to move away from the investigation so that he could choose another candidate for this post.
• Trump warned that he would make a decision on the Prosecutor General after the intermediate elections to Congress. However, few expected that the dismissal would take place the very next day after the election.

Why did Sehns retire from the Russian investigation? The rules of the Ministry of Justice prohibit participating in investigations in the event of a conflict of interest. Seoshns had two conflicts of interests:

• He was an active supporter of Trump during the election campaign, when violations could be committed,
• And he met twice with the Russian ambassador to Washington.

How will the resignation affect Müller's investigation?

It was under Seshns, who took the post of Prosecutor General in February 2017, the special prosecutor Robert Müller was appointed and an investigation was initiated about the possible intervention of Russia in the American elections in 2016 and the alleged conspiracy of Trump with Moscow.

On Wednesday, Donald Trump repeated once again that the investigation is harmful to the United States and should be closed, but emphasized that he did not intend to close it on his own initiative.

Can the Whayteker close it? I.O. Prosecutor General Wayteker previously criticized the investigation of Müller. In his commentary for The Hill, even before he went to work in the Ministry of Justice, he wrote that the call to appoint a special prosecutor is “an ordinary attempt to get cheap political glasses”. And in April 2017, in the CNN commentary, he noted that any investigation by the Muller of Finance of the Presidential Family "is going too far." Then he said that he admits the script in which the temporary general prosecutor will not fire Muller, but "simply reduces the budget to the level at which the investigation will practically stop."

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The President cannot directly dismiss a special prosecutor, whose investigation he repeatedly called “witch hunt”, however, and this, and the termination of the investigation becomes possible in the event of a resignation of Sehns, writes BBC. According to CBS News, the Deputy Prosecutor General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed the special prosecutor at one time and is known as the opponent of the president (according to The New York Times, he even offered to secretly record conversations with Trump), no longer oversees the investigation of Müller, is now engaged in the Whayteker.

The reaction of the democrats

Trump's decision has already caused indignation among the Democrats, and the Democratic National Committee noted that the personnel permits were not agreed with the US Senate, as the law demands. The party leader in Senate Chuck Schumer wrote on Twitter: "It is obvious that the president has something to hide." Schumer also expressed the opinion that, taking into account the previously made statements, the Whaytekter must move away from the investigation. In addition, the step of the acting The Prosecutor General was also called by the leader now in the House of Representatives of Nancy Pelosi. Schumer called the defense of the investigation of Müller.

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Vladimir Motorin