Just In: President Trump Announces Attorney General Bill Barr Has Resigned

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United States Attorney General William Barr has officially resigned.

President Trump has announced that Bill Barr has resigned from his role as the Attorney General and will be leaving just before Christmas.

His resignation comes at an interesting time considering the fact that multiple sources have recently stated that Barr had knowledge of the Hunter Biden laptop in the spring but failed to report any information on it.

…Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen, an outstanding person, will become Acting Attorney General. Highly respected Richard Donoghue will be taking over the duties of Deputy Attorney General. Thank you to all! pic.twitter.com/V5sqOJT9PM

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 14, 2020

“As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family.”

President Trump announced #AGBarr will be leaving his position, and Deputy Attorney General #JeffRosen will take his spot. https://t.co/bOql1o900A

— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) December 14, 2020

BREAKING: President Trump says AG Barr will step down before Christmas; Deputy AG Jeff Rosen to become Acting AG. pic.twitter.com/Ac296kGhYP

— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 14, 2020

NBC News covered Barr’s resignation and added these details:

Attorney General William Barr will leave his position later this month, President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Monday.

The news comes not long after Barr said there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election, defying Trump, who has made baseless claims the basis of a failed legal bid to overturn the results and stay in power.

“Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr at the White House,” Trump tweeted. “Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job! As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family.”

Barr “resigned on his own accord” and “wasn’t pushed out or forced to resign,” according to a White House official. His afternoon meeting with Trump was described as “very amicable” by this official.

Barr’s resignation comes days after the President sent out these tweets:

Why didn’t Bill Barr reveal the truth to the public, before the Election, about Hunter Biden. Joe was lying on the debate stage that nothing was wrong, or going on – Press confirmed. Big disadvantage for Republicans at the polls!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020

IF Biden gets in, nothing will happen to Hunter or Joe. Barr will do nothing, and the new group of partisan killers coming in will quickly kill it all. Same thing with Durham. We caught them cold, spying, treason & more (the hard part), but “Justice” took too long. Will be DOA!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020

The AP News dropped these details:

Attorney General William Barr, is resigning amid lingering tension with the president over the president’s claims of election fraud and the investigation into President-elect Joe Biden’s son.

Barr went Monday to the White House, where Trump said the attorney general submitted his letter of resignation. “As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family,” Trump tweeted.

Trump has publicly expressed his anger about Barr’s statement to The Associated Press earlier this month that the Justice Department had found no widespread election fraud that would change the outcome of the election. Trump has also been angry that the Justice Department did not publicly announce it was investigating Hunter Biden ahead of the election, despite department policy against such a pronouncement.

Whoa. https://t.co/BH0XItQO1T

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) December 14, 2020

Maybe we will start seeing some prosecutions of corrupt Democrats by the new Attorney General Jeff Rosen.