The next Attorney General could come from Trump's inner circle: sources

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The next Attorney General could come from Trump's inner circle: sources







Less than 24 hours after the Attorney General. Dismissal of Jeff Sessions, the race to fill his position at the Justice Department is heating up.





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The growing list of candidates to become the next attorney general covers a broad spectrum of legal minds close to the president Donald Trump and its administration and includes trusted advisers, political allies and vocal critics of the ongoing investigation of Special Adviser Robert Mueller on Russian interference in 2016 choice.



According to multiple sources familiar with Trump's thinking, the list currently consists of at least seven possible candidates: former US Attorney General William Barr, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican Congressman John Ratcliffe and US Attorney General Matthew Whitaker.





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Matt Whitaker speaks during the annual Lincoln Day dinner at the Iowa Republican Party in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on April 11, 2014. 

The sources emphasized that the list is fluid and that President Trump is in no hurry to name a permanent successor.



The next Attorney General He will inherit the oversight of Mueller's investigation, which President Trump and his allies often refer to as a "witch hunt."



Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, is perhaps the most visible of the seven candidates. Giuliani, a friend of Trump's for a long time, was one of his closest collaborators in the election campaign before joining his legal team in April, and since then he has frequently appeared on cable news when he represents the president in the middle of the ongoing conversations with the Mueller team.



Rumor has it that Graham, who recently emerged as one of the president's fiercest defenders and will assume the position of chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, will audition for the post for months, perhaps in part inspiring his vigorous defense of the president's Supreme The candidate to the Brett Kavanaugh court in September.





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Chris Christie speaks on stage during the Politicon 2018 at the Los Angeles Convention Center on October 20, 2018, in Los Angeles.

Whitaker, Sessions 'former chief of staff at the Department of Justice, was contacted by Trump to fill Sessions' shoes on an interim basis, but sources say he is also a candidate for the permanent position. However, he has already been subjected to intense scrutiny for his past statements criticizing Mueller's investigation in Russia.





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Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of the city of New York, delivers a speech while attending the National Council of the Resistance of Iran, meeting in Villepinte, near Paris, France, on June 30, 2018.

Christie, who is now a contributor to ABC News, was first a main rival and then one of the first supporters of the Trump campaign and the initial leader of the Trump presidential transition team. Christie met with Trump and his advisers at the White House on Thursday, the sources said, where he had a previously scheduled meeting on prison reform with Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner.





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Sen. Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, shouts while questioning Judge Brett Kavanaugh during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on September 27, 2018 in Washington.

Ratcliffe, a Republican from Texas, has been a vocal critic of Mueller's research.



According to the sources, they also appeared on the list of contenders for Bondi, a longtime Trump ally who according to the sources was considered for a position in the Department of Justice during the transition; Barr, who served as attorney general under President George H. Bush; and Ratcliffe, a Texas Republican who has been a vocal critic of Mueller's research.

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