William Barr has announced he is resigning as US attorney-general, just weeks after he said he had found no evidence of the widespread election irregularities claimed by outgoing president Donald Trump.
Mr Trump claimed on Monday evening that Mr Barr’s departure was amicable, but the announcement came with fewer than six weeks left in the Trump administration, and just two days after the president attacked his attorney-general as a “big disappointment”.
Mr Trump announced Mr Barr’s departure on Twitter, just minutes after president-elect Joe Biden formally received the 270 Electoral College votes required to be sworn in on January 20.
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