William Barr
US President Donald Trump announced the resignation of the country's Attorney General William Barr. He wrote about this on Twitter.
The Minister of Justice will leave office by the end of December. “Our relationship is very good, he did a great job! According to the letter [of resignation], Bill is leaving right before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family, ”explained the American leader. He attached a copy of Barr's resignation letter to the message.
Jeff Rosen, Barra's current first deputy, will be acting as the head of the US Department of Justice. His place, in turn, will be taken by Richard Donoghue, who has been working since the summer in the leadership of the US Department of Justice, and before that worked in the prosecutor's office in New York.
It was announced on December 7 that Barr could step down before the end of Trump's presidency. It was noted that the reason for the decision could be both Trump's refusal to admit defeat in the presidential election, and Barr's words that the US Department of Justice did not find massive fraud on them.
William Barr has served as US Attorney General since February 2019. In this position, he also worked under President George W. Bush in 1991-1993.
On November 3, 2020, the next presidential elections were held in the United States. On December 14, the electors confirmed Democratic candidate Joe Biden as the new president of the United States. The politician received 55 electoral votes in the state of California, thus gaining 302 votes. To win the presidential race, you need to get 270 electoral votes.
