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Claim That Sessions Resigned Is Baloney

Q: Has Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned?

A: No. That claim came from a made-up story originally posted on a self-described satirical site.

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is still in office.

But a website that posts as satire has played on the relationship between Sessions and President Donald Trump and posted a story with this headline: “.'”

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