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Bill Barr is not staying on as attorney general for the rest of President Donald Trump’s time in office.
THe president announced on Twitter that Barr is leaving “just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family.”
Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen is going to serve as acting AG.
Despite the president’s insistence in this tweet that his relationship with Barr “has been a very good one” and that his AG “has done an outstanding job,” the move comes on the heels of the president publicly attacking him, as recently as this weekend, over a multitude of issues, including reports that Barr tried to keep the news of the Hunter Biden investigation from leaking.
The letter from Barr posted by the president says he’s leaving on December 23rd, two days before Christmas, and contains unqualified praise of Trump, saying at one point, “Your 2016 victory speech in which you reached out to your opponents and called for working together for the benefit of the American