WASHINGTON — The Trump administration moved on Friday to sweep away most of the remaining vestiges of Obama administration prosecutors at the Justice Department, ordering 46 holdover United States attorneys to tender their resignations immediately — including Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan.
The firings were a surprise — especially for Mr. Bharara, who has a reputation for prosecuting public corruption cases and for investigating insider trading. In November, Mr. Bharara met with then President-elect Donald J. Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan and told reporters afterward that both Mr. Trump and Jeff Sessions, who is now the attorney general, had asked him about staying on, which the prosecutor said he expected to do.
But on Friday, Mr. Bharara was among federal prosecutors who received a call from Dana Boente, the acting deputy attorney general, instructing him to resign, according to a person familiar with the matter. As of Friday evening, though some of the prosecutors had publicly announced their resignations, Mr. Bharara had not. A spokesman for Mr. Bharara declined to comment.
Sarah Isgur Flores, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said in an email that all remaining holdover United States attorneys had been asked to resign, leaving their deputy United States attorneys, who are career officials, in place in an acting capacity.
“As was the case in prior transitions, many of the United States Attorneys nominated by the previous administration already have left the Department of Justice,” she said in the email. “The Attorney General has now asked the remaining 46 presidentially appointed U.S. Attorneys to tender their resignations in order to ensure a uniform transition.”
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Why did he do this?
Andrew Ortiz
Because Obama's people can fuck off.
Cooper Rodriguez
bump
Grayson Thomas
isn't this guy investigating weiner?
Ethan Kelly
hahahahahaahaha i am winning so much
Joshua Hughes
This really is not a big deal as these changes happens with most new, incoming administrations.
Aaron Martinez
Is it going too far or is it taking out fifth columnists from DNC?
Josiah Smith
There probably more in the DC basements
Elijah Wood
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>article cherry picks a few moderates/seem like moderates
>ignores the rest of the faggots who disregard the law and Constitution
>THE JEW YORK TIMES
Cameron Thompson
I guess you CAN sheet the Preet after all.
Brayden Hughes
>was No need in letting the opposition fuck up a prosecution.
Caleb Bailey
>Why did he do this? It's called cleaning house. Clinton fired a similar amount of federal prosecutors when he took office.
Blake Bennett
More like "delete the Preet"
Jackson Perez
It's standard operating procedure, he really should have done it back in January.
Xavier Young
From 1993 >All 93 United States Attorneys knew they would be asked to step down, since all are Republican holdovers, and 16 have resigned so far. But the process generally takes much longer and had usually been carried out without the involvement of the Attorney General. Battles of the Past
Now >It is not unusual for a new president to replace United States attorneys appointed by a predecessor, especially when there has been a change in which party controls the White House. >Still, other presidents have done it gradually in order to minimize disruption, giving those asked to resign more time to make the transition while keeping some inherited prosecutors in place, as it had appeared Mr. Trump would do with Mr. Bharara. Mr. Obama, for example, kept Mr. Rosenstein, who had been appointed by George W. Bush.
Jacob Martin
they had to go back
Jordan Miller
>Obama-Appointed Prosecutors
Here's your reason.
sage
Christopher Wilson
7th floor shadow govt disbanded then 46 Obama-appointed prosecutors now
DRAIN THE IRS
Noah King
Obama did it, Clinton fired all 93 attorneys back in the day. but oh no Trump can't because Obamas eight years of bullshit pandering to leftists must be the continuing norm now.
Luis Collins
POO IN COURTROOM
Sebastian Torres
MUH PROGRESS
Asher Torres
This, Democrats are acting outraged that Trump is doing shit that Obama did on day 1.
Ethan White
I bet some of these of Obama's old administration will Contain some of the leakers.
However I'm sure there still be some rats left. Where can we expect other leakers to hide?
Jordan King
The Deep State has compromised the IAs
Jose Russell
>new administration is replacing old one Wtf I hate Plumpf now
Thomas Fisher
god dammnit preet poo in loo is actually a pretty gud prosecutor.
he went hard after bankers and he also dislikes the clintons because bill clinton gave a pardon to the billioniare he put away.
trump better fill those spots with good prosecutors and not (((neocons)))
Jason Stewart
Mmm, this is so delicious to read.
Obama's fragile, false legacy keeps unravelling more and more.
Good on ya, America.
Christian Ramirez
Maybe he didn't disavow?
Jaxson Sanchez
Official Sup Forums poll
Luis Robinson
based
Asher Cruz
Trump dumped all of Obomber's foreign diplomats when he did the same to Bush. This is not news
Ethan Howard
DRAIN THE SWAMP R A I N
THE H E
SWAMP W A M P
Luke Parker
F P B P
Landon Sanders
Sessions asked for their resignations and he only did so for 46. Obama fired even more. Just think about it. Sessions didn't ask for ALL Obama appointees to turn in resignations. That means Obama appointed MORE than 46 people in the DOJ. You don't get to be outraged at one of those scenarios and not the other.
Andrew Long
i haven't seen any reports about this before Sup Forums
this is a good sign
Adrian Jackson
Preet was just sitting on the Clinton Foundation case. he was sitting on the Diblasio corruption case and what the fuck about the Wiener pedo shit?
the Clinton shit has been at least 6 months or more. the fear of arkancide can be a strong motivator to stand down or he's just an Obama stooge
Cameron Edwards
>Obama did it umm, no he didn't? >doing shit that Obama did on day 1. nope >Obama fired even more that's some nice fake news you got there buddy
its funny how you retards defend what Trump did but then you accuse Obama of doing it... so if Obama did it that makes him a bad guy? hmmm well guess who actually did it... you're basically admitting that what Trump did was wrong
Trump is acting like a fucking dictator, he's going to be impeached within the next few months
Alexander Lee
I hope atun rao is on that list sick faggot deserves to be beheaded.