Resigning with an undated letter to President Donald Trump today, 71-year-old Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions reluctantly accepted Trump’s wish to end his stint heading the Justice Department. Sessions was tainted from the get go, gaining approval in his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing Feb. 9, 2017 but only after agreeing to recuse himself from the Special Counsel’s probe in Russian meddling and alleged Trump collusion in the 2016 presidential campaign. No one in the mainstream press mentions anything about Sessions being “unmasked” by former Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch and National Security Adviser Susan Rice speaking at least two times with former Russian U.S. Amb. Sergei Kislyak. Sessions lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee, telling them he had no contact with Russia during the campaign or in the transition period before Trump’s Jan. 20, 2017 inauguration.

As soon as the White House announced Sessions resignation, it was 24/7 reporting in the mainstream press about Trump obstructing justice—interfering in Mueller’s investigation. Not one member of the press mentioned anything about Sessions recusing himself March 2, 2017 from Mueller’s Russian probe, washing his hands of any involvement in the investigation. Yet the dishonest media calls his investigation another Trump attempt to obstruct justice, even though Sessions has nothing to do with Mueller’s Russian probe. Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein took the lead in the Russian probe, appointing Special Counsel Robert Mueller May 17, 2017, eight days after Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey May 9, 2017. Rosenstein wrote the Justice Department’s three-page letter May 10, 2017 explaining in great detail why Comey was fired for insubordination.

Yet if you listen to the mainstream press and Democrats in Congress they’re once again saying Trump’s trying to obstruct justice. Even Fox News analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano couldn’t stop repeating himself on Shepard Smith’s show today that Trump might have obstructed justice. Napolitano mentioned nothing about Session’s recusal from the Mueller probe, making the obstruction charge preposterous. “At your request, I am submitting my resignation,” said Sessions, lamenting the fact that heading the DOJ was his dream job. When Sessions lied to the Judiciary Committee Jan. 10, 2017 in his confirmation hearing about not talking with former Amb Kislyak, he should have withdrawn his name for attorney general. Session’s senate colleagues cut him a deal but only if he agreed to recuse himself in the Russian probe. Sessions conversations with Kislyak were entirely inconsequential.

Accepting his resignation, Trump announced that Session’s 49-year-old Chief of Staff Matthew G. Whitaker would replace Sessions as acting AG. “We are pleased to announce that Matthew G. Whitaker, Chief of Staff to Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions at the Department of Justice, will become our new Acting Attorney General of the United States. He will serve our country well,” tweeted Trump. No sooner than Trump finished his tweet, Whitaker was slammed by Democrats for telling CNN that Mueller crossed the line looking into Trump personal finances. Whitaker also talked about how Mueller’s probe would end if the Attorney General limited his budget. Whitaker never said that’s what he’d do, only talked in hypotheticals. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) already called for Whitaker’s recusal.

Only Democrats and the mainstream press want Trump to have a handicapped Attorney General, unable to supervise the unending Mueller probe. Mueller’s final report to Congress on Russian meddling and alleged Trump collusion is supposed to come sometime after the Midterm elections. “While the president may have the authority to replace the Attorney General, this must no be the first step in an attempt to impede, obstruct or end the Mueller investigation,” said Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), accusing
Trump of attempting to obstruct justice. Since firing Comey May 9, Democrats have routinely accused Trump of trying to stop the Russian probe. Comey testified that Trump tried to talk him out of prosecuting former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn, also wiretapped by former President Barack Obama’s Justice Department. Only Democrats and their media friends push the Trump obstruction theory.

Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wasted no time warning Trump about firing Atty. Gen. Sessions. “It is impossible to read Atty. Gen. Sessions’ firing as anything other than another blatant attempt by @real DonaldTrump to undermine & end Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation,” tweeted Pelosi. Pelosi and Schumer want Acting Atty. Gen. Whitaker to recuse himself, knowing that Sessions recused himself because he lied about his conversations with Kislyak. Whitaker has done nothing wrong other than hazard opinions about the Russian probe. “Mr. Whitaker should recuse himself from its oversight for the duration of his time as Acting Attorney General,” said Schumer. Pelosi and Schumer want to keep Trump under investigation through the 2020 presidential election. To Pelosi, Shumer and the mainstream press, Trump obstruced justice and should resign.