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 id="x1-170002"></a>The appointment of a Special Counsel and efforts to remove him.</h5>
<!--l. 53--><p class="noindent" >On May 17, 2017, the Acting Attorney General for the Russia investigation appointed a
Special Counsel to conduct the investigation and related matters. The President reacted to
news that a Special Counsel had been appointed by telling advisors that it was “the end
of his presidency” and demanding that Sessions resign. Sessions submitted his
resignation, but the 