Mar 04, 2019 · House Democrats grill Whitaker in combative hearing 02:58. Former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker has left the building, CBS News correspondent Paula Reid reports. Although he was replaced ...
Mar 05, 2019 · Matt Whitaker AP. Ex-acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker quietly left the Justice Department over the weekend, according to multiple reports. Whitaker’s abrupt departure came Saturday, days ...
Mar 05, 2019 · Matthew Whitaker, the former acting attorney general whose brief appointment generated intense controversy, resigned from the Justice Department over the weekend. Justice Department officials said ...
Aug 05, 2019 · Laura Belin. 0 Comments. Matt Whitaker will become a managing director for the Kansas City-based Clout Public Affairs consulting firm, Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg News was first to report on August 1. Whitaker served as chief of staff for U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions for a little more than a year before President Donald Trump named him acting …
Jeffrey A. Rosen | |
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Preceded by | William Barr |
Succeeded by | Monty Wilkinson (acting) |
38th United States Deputy Attorney General | |
In office May 22, 2019 – December 23, 2020 |
Jeff Sessions | |
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Preceded by | Loretta Lynch |
Succeeded by | William Barr |
United States Senator from Alabama | |
In office January 3, 1997 – February 8, 2017 |
Matt Whitaker will become a managing director for the Kansas City-based Clout Public Affairs consulting firm, Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg News was first to report on August 1. Whitaker served as chief of staff for U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions for a little more than a year before President Donald Trump named him acting attorney general in ...
Whitaker served as chief of staff for U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions for a little more than a year before President Donald Trump named him acting attorney general in November 2018, flouting a federal law and a constitutional requirement that anyone holding that position be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
Clout Public Affairs is a division of Axiom Strategies, established by Cruz’s former campaign manager. Polyansky also served as a senior strategist for Joni Ernst before and during her 2014 campaign for U.S. Senate. Whitaker ran for Senate that year too, finishing fourth out of five candidates in the GOP primary.
Whitaker collected more than $1.2 million as the leader of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a group that described itself as a charitable nonprofit dedicated to “promoting accountability, ethics, and transparency in government and civic arenas,” though it largely worked to promote conservative causes.
In a conflict of interest that’s most certainly not lost on Trump, Whitaker has been openly critical of Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign ― an investigation he now oversees until Trump taps a permanent replacement.