Sessions' firing displays Trump's strange definition of loyalty
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Nov 09, 2018
3 minutes
The day after the midterm elections, President Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions, replacing him at least temporarily with a more pliable loyalist. When Sessions got the news on Wednesday, he asked if he could finish the week. Nope. Close of business today was the answer.
Now, as a matter of law, Sessions wasn't fired. The president asked him for his resignation and Sessions agreed. That matters, because if Sessions had made Trump fire him, some restrictions
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