Attorney General Bill Barr has just submitted his letter of resignation, after weeks of reports President Donald Trump was anxious to fire him for not supporting his voter fraud lies more diligently.
“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,” he claimed.
Just two days ago Trump blasted Barr:
Barr’s tenure as Trump’s Attorney General will forever be marked by his lies to the American public in service to his boss.
“A federal judge on Thursday,” The New York Times reported in March, “sharply criticized Attorney General William P. Barr’s handling of the report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, saying that Mr. Barr put forward a ‘distorted’ and ‘misleading’ account of its findings and lacked credibility on the topic.”
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes weighs in:
Trump made the announcement within minutes of the Electoral College reaching the 270 mark, making Joe Biden’s President-elect status even more definitive.
This is a breaking news and developing story and has been updated to add additional information.