{"id":396,"date":"2017-03-10T18:10:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T23:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2017-03-10T18:10:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T23:10:06","slug":"trump-fires-46-obama-appointed-prosecutors-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/396","title":{"rendered":"Trump Fires 46 Obama Appointed Prosecutors Friday…"},"content":{"rendered":"

To the victor goes the spoils. The Trump administration completes the sweep of Obama appointed prosecutors.<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON<\/a> \u2014 The Trump administration on Friday moved to sweep away the remaining vestiges of Obama administration prosecutors at the Justice Department, ordering 46 holdover United States attorneys to tender their resignations immediately \u2014 including Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

The firings were a surprise \u2014 especially for Mr. Bharara, who has a reputation for prosecuting public corruption cases. In November, Mr. Bharara met with then President-elect Donald J. Trump at Trump Tower and told reporters afterward<\/span><\/u><\/a> that Mr. Trump had asked him about staying on, which the prosecutor said he expected to do.<\/p>\n

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. A spokesman for Mr. Bharara declined to comment.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs was the case in prior transitions, many of the United States Attorneys nominated by the previous administration already have left the Department of Justice,\u201d she said in the email. \u201cThe Attorney General has now asked the remaining 46 presidentially appointed U.S. Attorneys to tender their resignations in order to ensure a uniform transition.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mr. Trump invited Mr. Bharara to meet with him during a public get-together at Trump Tower during the transition. Afterward, Mr. Bharara told reporters that he had been asked to remain on in his job \u2014 and that Mr. Sessions had asked him to stay on.<\/p>\n

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A person familiar with the calls that have been made said there was no advance warning of the move. It came less than 24 hours after Sean Hannity, the Fox News commentator who often speaks with Mr. Trump, called for a \u201cpurge\u201d of Obama appointees at the Justice Department on his show.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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