Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who has been surprisingly supportive of President Trump in recent months, said on Monday he believes Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be leaving his post soon.
"Jeff probably will step down,” Graham (R-S.C.) told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, predicting that “we’ll have a new attorney general, most likely early next year."
Sessions has been publicly excoriated by President Donald Trump since he recused himself from a federal probe into allegations of collusion between Trump’s presidential campaign and the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 election ...
Graham, a onetime critic of the president's who has grown close to him, could play a key role in replacing Sessions. The South Carolina lawmaker is poised to become chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee if Republicans are able to maintain their majority in the chamber and if current Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) gives up his gavel to take over the chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee.
Graham: New attorney general coming 'most likely early next year' (Politico)