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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will leave the Department of Justice on May 11, he said in an April 29 resignation letter.
Rosenstein is leaving his post after overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election for nearly two years.
Here are all the top-level people who've either been fired or resigned from the Trump administration and why they left.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will leave the Department of Justice on May 11, he said in an April 29 resignation letter.

Rosenstein, who previously served as a US Attorney from Maryland, left his post after overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller's nearly two-year-long investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice.

The administration has been rocked by high-profile departures — including James Mattis as defense secretary and John Kelly as chief of staff — since Trump took office in January 2017.

Here are all the top-level people who've either been fired or resigned from the administration and why they left.

Rod Rosenstein

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Rosenstein formally announced his departure from the Department of Justice in an April 29 letter to President Donald Trump.

For nearly two years, Rosenstein oversaw special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice — sometimes putting himself at odds with Trump himself.

"I am grateful to you for the opportunity to serve; for the courtesy and humor you often display in our personal conversations; and for the goals you set in your inaugural address: patriotism, unity, safety, education and prosperity," Rosenstein's letter said.

Kirstjen Nielsen

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"Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, and I would like to thank her for her service," Trump wrote in an April 7 tweet, not clarifying whether she voluntarily resigned or had been forced out.

In a subsequent tweet, Trump added that US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan would take over as acting DHS Secretary until a permanent replacement is nominated.

Nielsen, who served in the position since December 2017, oversaw many of the Trump administration's most significant efforts to reduce both illegal and legal immigration into the United States.

She enforced and defended the administration's controversial zero-tolerance policy, which jailed all adults charged with illegal entry, placed their children into government-run shelters, and resulted in approximately 2,500 children being separated from their parents.

But Trump reportedly blamed Nielsen for, in his view, failing to successfully counteract the significant increases in migrants crossing the border which began in the spring and summer of 2018.

Bill Shine

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The White House announced on March 8 that Shine, who served as Trump's deputy chief of staff for communications eight months, would be leaving the administration to work on Trump's 2020 re-election campaign.

Before joining the White House, Shine spent most his career at Fox News. He started off as a producer on Sean Hannity's show, but rose up to be an executive directing programming and briefly served as the network's co-president.

While Shine mainly stayed out of the media spotlight during his time at the White House, he came under scrutiny for receiving an $8.4 million severance payment and at least half of a $7 million bonus Fox owed him while also working for the administration.

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