(Bloomberg) -- Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller, said in a speech Thursday that his time in law enforcement is coming to an end, and the address will be one of his last in his current position.

“I took more than my fair share of criticism,” Rosenstein said at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. “But I kept the faith, I followed the rules and I left my office in good hands.”

President Donald Trump plans to nominate Jeffrey Rosen as the new deputy attorney general, the White House said on Tuesday night. Rosenstein, who oversaw the Mueller investigation, has come under criticism from Trump and his supporters over the inquiry.

Rosenstein, in a question-and-answer session, said the Justice Department is “being run in the right way.”

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