President Donald Trump is reportedly thinking of a new attorney general, even though the incumbent, Jeff Sessions, has held the job for less than six months and was one of the president’s earliest and most steadfast political allies.

Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, has been floated as a possible replacement, according to Axios.

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Trump has before floated trial balloons that hint at major action to come.

In May, for example, Trump had complained of reporters beating up his press team during televised briefings.

What followed was the result of Trump’s wishes: There were fewer televised press briefings, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders took the podium more often.

Mike Dubke, communications director, resigned in late May.

Sean Spicer, press secretary, worked behind the scenes and, by early July, only did a few briefings.

Then came the shocker — Trump hired businessman Anthony Scaramucci on Friday as his new communications director. The Trump loyalist was opposed by Spicer and Reince Priebus, chief of staff, for the job. To add insult to injury, the president made sure to point out that Scaramucci report directly to the Oval Office, not to Priebus.

Following the news, Spicer resigned on Friday. He will work through August.

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That sort of chain reaction could follow yet another of Trump’s public ruminations. This time, the subject is the attorney general.

It’s no longer a secret Trump is angry at Sessions for recusing himself from the Justice Department probe into Russian hacking.

Sessions recused himself in early March from that investigation because of Justice Department guidelines regarding attorneys and conflict of interest. If an attorney worked on a campaign, he or she should not be on a case that involves the candidate, according to Justice guidelines.

But Trump was furious with the decision and has stewed about it ever since. The issue reemerged last week when Trump gave a 50-minute interview to The New York Times, in which he said he would never have appointed Sessions had he expected a recusal.

Trump advisers believe the recusal meant that Trump and Sessions lost control of the special investigation into Russian hacking, and thus handed everything over to Rod Rosenstein, deputy attorney general, and the FBI. When Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in early May, it triggered Rosenstein to appoint a special counsel, Robert Mueller, the former FBI director.

Trump is angry that the special counsel may widen its scope to study Trump’s personal finances, as well as those of his family. A Trump confidant told LifeZette last week the president believes Sessions caused the chain of events by not staying in control.

Giuliani was said to be Trump’s first pick for attorney general, but Giuliani reportedly wanted the appointment to be secretary of state. Now Trump could be thinking of wooing Giuliani anew to the Cabinet.

Sessions said last week he would not resign, and the White House indicated Trump still had faith in Sessions.

But on Monday, Trump made clear he was still irked at a lack of investigation into leaks involving the investigation. Trump has been dogged by leaks since he took office, some involving Russia. The leaks have often involved classified materials.

“So why aren’t the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillary’s crimes & Russia relations?” Trump tweeted on Monday morning.

It was a new and odd swipe at Sessions that started pundits buzzing on Twitter about possible Trump plans to push Sessions out.

“It feels inevitable,” tweeted Seth Mandel, op-ed editor of the New York Post.

And at a photo shoot of the president with departing interns, a reporter shouted out, “Should Jeff Sessions resign?”

Trump smirked, and shook his head. He told the interns the press shouldn’t do that. Yet Sessions seems closer to the door with every critical tweet.