The next Attorney General should be.....Rudy !!!

Well, I'll give Trump one thing - it's certainly an effective distraction from the whole debate as to whether the mid-terms were a success or failure for his party. Though personally, I think he could probably have come up with a distraction that didn't bring back memories of the Saturday Night Massacre.

Not too surprising since the Trump administration has a higher turnover ratio then the average Walmart.

I guess he planned to fire him after the midterms a long time ago. But he thought it could be negative for the elections.

He may fire some more people and replace them with loyalists. He doesn't even try to hide that and the best time may be now because people won't talk much about it anymore in 2020.

He resigned. Wasn't exactly fired. Updated the title of the thread and also added who is temporary replacement for Sessions as well.

Nice. Looks pretty good now.

The title is more accurate but still, when you resign based on someone else request, people would still consider that as getting fired.  Either way, this was rumored before the elections so looks like business as usual.  If the other rumor is true that Mueller has Trump Jr in his cross hairs then the time is now for Trump to make this move before stuff gets out of hand.

Yeah I've heard that rumor about Don Jr too but nothing has come out of it thus far.  This is the strategy I see unfolding with Whitaker now at the helm. You're going to see decreased funding for the Mueller probe which will hinder him from doing his job properly. Investigation will not be stopped by will be so drained of money that even when its on going it will still seem like its stopped.

That's my guess as to what will transpire

Trump seems strangely interested at this nothing-burger. Maybe he's on a diet.

I totally agree.  It would be easy for Whitaker to reign in the investigation and limit its scope and resources.  From there he can demand a time frame for Mueller to tidy up what he has and deliver his report.  Any unfinished investigations will just be shut down.  I believe that will only protect Trump in the short term.  Once the Dems gain control, everything will be reopened.  Mueller will probably be given a chance to testify if he was forced to shut down the investigation prematurely and request for all open and closed cases will be subpoena.

I believe the best case for Trump is that Mueller really has nothing and then that would totally take the sail out of anything the Dems do.