President Trump tweeted Monday that Attorney General Bill Barr will resign from his post before Christmas, moments after the Electoral College cemented President-elect Joe Biden's election victory.

Why it matters: Tensions between Trump and Barr had already been running high, and revelations in the Wall Street Journal that Barr had worked "for months" during the campaign to conceal a federal investigation of Hunter Biden further enraged the president.

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