by Alexander O. Onukwue

With the resignation of the White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, the odds are on that there might be another person pulling out soon from the Trump administration.

Spicer, according to media reports, decided it was time to leave the post he has held for six months over disagreements with the President on communications related matters. Unlike former National Security Adviser, General Michael Flynn who resigned in February, Spicer had no dark clouds over his head.

Spicer has not been popular in the media for his defence of some of the apparently indefensible statements made by President Trump, but his decision to resign has been hailed by some as something to be emulated by US Attorney General, Jeff Sessions.

In his interview with the New York Times, Trump did say that he regretted his appointment of Jeff Sessions to the position of Attorney-General after Sessions chose to recuse himself from any involvement with the investigations into alleged Russian interference in the November 2016 elections.

Sessions is still the Attorney General of the US and the reports of his reaction after the Trump statement was that he was not going to leave the position.

To be hung out to dry by one’s boss in the way Trump appeared to do would appear a direct vote of no-confidence on one’s judgement. Like some directions which Trump has chosen to take in his Presidency so far, that was unprecedented. But it could have been a tactic by Trump with which to cuddle the alliance of many who have distrusted Sessions, both in his dealings with Russia and in some of his proposals as Attorney General.

The Republican Senator from Alabama, Sessions was the first seating Congressman to openly declare for Trump’s candidature in the election cycle of 2016, and was the first cabinet member to be named by Trump for his new administration. However, a lot has gone south in six months, and you wonder how much more sour would it get before another key member of the Trump board calls its quits.

Being a more long-time politician than Spicer, perhaps Trump’s public disagreement with him will not get him to resign, but the new Washington Post story that he discussed matter related to Trump campaign with Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, might be the final straw for Sessions.

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