By David Ferguson
Saturday evening, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin appeared by phone
to discuss the firing of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara with anchor Ana
Cabrera.
Mediaite.com said
that Toobin believes Bharara was axed because he was pursuing lines of
investigation that would prove “troublesome” to the Trump
administration.
“The question arises,” Toobin said, “Is there something either that
the Trump administration doesn’t want Preet Bharara to pursue, or are
there things he knows that he might disclose later that could be
troublesome for the Trump administration?”
Bharara was fired by Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions after he refused to comply with a Justice Department order for 46 U.S. Attorneys appointed by the Obama administration to vacate their posts immediately.
The call for the resignations came less than 24 hours after Fox News host and indefatigable Trump booster Sean Hannity called for a “purge” of federal officials appointed by the Obama administration.
Bharara has a reputation as a Wall Street enforcer and was looking into criminal allegations against Fox News. In 2012, Bharara’s office successfully extradited and prosecuted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was known as “the merchant of death.”
He is believed to have been investigating connections between Donald
Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government. In his statement after
the firing, Bharara said,
“I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired. Being the US Attorney in
SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life.”
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