Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsGOP set to release controversial Biden report Trump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status MORE reportedly threatened to resign if the Trump administration deported a dissident businessman to China.

Sessions said he would quit if the administration sent back Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, according to The Washington Times.

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Sessions made the threat during a meeting in the spring when talking to administration officials, the newspaper reported.

Guo is wanted in Beijing on corruption charges.

Guo has been a frequent and vocal critic of the Chinese government and applied for asylum in the U.S. in September.

In January, he started posting about corruption among Chinese leaders on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.