A little background on our new acting AG
Matthew G. Whitaker (born October 29, 1969) is an American lawyer and
Republican politician, former Chief of Staff to
Attorney General Jeff Sessions. He is the former
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, and was a candidate in the June 3, 2014 primary election for the Republican nomination for
United States Senate election in Iowa. He is currently Acting
Attorney General following the forced resignation of Jeff Sessions.
While at Iowa, Whitaker played
tight end for the University of
Iowa Hawkeyes football team, appearing in Iowa's
Rose Bowl game in 1991.
On August 6th, 2017, one month prior to joining the Justice Department, Whitaker wrote an opinion column for CNN titled "Mueller's investigation of Trump is going too far."Then on September 22nd, 2017, a Justice Department official announced that
Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Whitaker to be his Chief of Staff. Then in early September 2018, Whitaker was revealed to be on the short list of
President Trump's
White House staff as the replacement for
Don McGahn as the
White House Counsel.During the commotion created by conflicting reports about
Rod Rosenstein's firing, resignation and eventual retention on September 25th, 2018,