Trump toyed with firing Barr’s predecessor, Jeff Sessions, almost from the moment Mueller was appointed in May 2017 — furious that his first attorney general had recused himself from the Russia case. He ultimately did not do so until November of the following year. Similarly, Trump did not fire Mueller, though Mueller’s investigation revealed that he came close to doing so. And Trump allowed Rod J. Rosenstein, Sessions’s deputy who oversaw the Mueller investigation, essentially to leave on his own.
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