Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pushed out of his post Wednesday by President Trump, ending a turbulent tenure that began with Mr. Sessions as one of Mr. Trump’s closest associates and ended with him facing repeated attacks from the president over the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The move follows months of Mr. Trump expressing his displeasure with Mr. Sessions in critical and sometimes harsh tweets. Even so, the rapidity of the move, coming just hours after polls closed in the midterm elections, suggested…