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HOLDOVER: Bharara is not submitting his resignation (CNN UPDATE: He will make President fire him)
Last edited Sat Mar 11, 2017, 03:58 PM - Edit history (5)
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PreetBharara
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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HOLDOVER: Bharara is not submitting his resignation, according to several ppl briefed
- WH not responding to what they'll do next.
US Attorney Preet Bharara doesn't plan to resign, will make President fire him
The high-profile US attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, has indicated he will not submit a letter of resignation as requested by the Trump administration Friday — placing the President in the position of having to fire him in a public standoff, sources tell CNN.
Bharara, who had been told after a meeting with the President-elect in November that he would stay on, felt blindsided by the move, the sources said.
According to a source familiar with the meeting between Trump and Bharara in November at Trump Tower, the President-elect asked Bharara to stay on the job and they shook hands. Trump directed Bharara to go out to the cameras and tell them, “I asked you to stay.”
The White House has not responded to a request for an official comment on the matter.
(CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/11/politics/bharara-not-resigning/
Here Too:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/10/despite-trump-bharara-won-t-resign-yet.html?via=desktop&source=twitter
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...thought they were going to get away with their nefarious deeds unquestioned...
THANK YOU MR. BHARARA!
RESIST!
the others had resisted as well. What a sight! What a statement! #resistance is a powerful force. Ultimately #trumprussia doesn't stand a chance. He can't tell the truth from a lie and his legacy is being written by traitors. To have the entire DOJ refuse to turn in their resignations so that they can actually prosecute the #trumprussia cabal would have been highly inspiring, even if ultimately doomed to failure, because of course #trumprussia would have had to fire them, but still the resolve and the confrontation would have been brilliant.
Steps must be taken, even if they don't seem to carry us very far, they add up.
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Preet Bharara Is Said to Refuse Order to Step Down as U.S. Attorney
By MAGGIE HABERMAN MARCH 11, 2017
Preet Bharara, the Manhattan federal prosecutor who was told to submit his resignation along with 45 others on Friday, has no plans to do so — forcing a potential showdown with President Trump and the Department of Justice.
Mr. Bharara, whose office is overseeing a case against a top aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and an investigation into people close to Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City, has told several people that he did not hand in a resignation on Friday, as he was ordered to do by the acting deputy attorney general, Dana Boente. He also does not intend to do so over the weekend, he said in conversations with associates, a move that could force the hand of the Trump administration. A spokesman for Mr. Bharara declined to comment.
Mr. Bharara was asked by Mr. Trump to remain in his current post in a meeting in late November, a few weeks after the presidential election. Mr. Bharara met with Mr. Trump at Trump Tower, and then addressed reporters afterward, saying that he had been asked to remain and had given the president his promise to do so.
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One of New York’s top elected Republicans voiced support for Mr. Bharara on Saturday. “Good for Preet, he is doing the job he was appointed to do!” Assemblyman Brian M. Kolb, the State Assembly minority leader, wrote on Twitter. Assemblyman Steven F. McLaughlin, a Republican who was fond of calling for draining the swamp in Albany long before Mr. Trump embraced that expression, had urged Mr. Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reconsider on Friday. “Big mistake,” he wrote on Twitter.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/us/politics/preet-bharara-us-attorney.html
By MAGGIE HABERMAN MARCH 11, 2017
Preet Bharara, the Manhattan federal prosecutor who was told to submit his resignation along with 45 others on Friday, has no plans to do so — forcing a potential showdown with President Trump and the Department of Justice.
Mr. Bharara, whose office is overseeing a case against a top aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and an investigation into people close to Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City, has told several people that he did not hand in a resignation on Friday, as he was ordered to do by the acting deputy attorney general, Dana Boente. He also does not intend to do so over the weekend, he said in conversations with associates, a move that could force the hand of the Trump administration. A spokesman for Mr. Bharara declined to comment.
Mr. Bharara was asked by Mr. Trump to remain in his current post in a meeting in late November, a few weeks after the presidential election. Mr. Bharara met with Mr. Trump at Trump Tower, and then addressed reporters afterward, saying that he had been asked to remain and had given the president his promise to do so.
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One of New York’s top elected Republicans voiced support for Mr. Bharara on Saturday. “Good for Preet, he is doing the job he was appointed to do!” Assemblyman Brian M. Kolb, the State Assembly minority leader, wrote on Twitter. Assemblyman Steven F. McLaughlin, a Republican who was fond of calling for draining the swamp in Albany long before Mr. Trump embraced that expression, had urged Mr. Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reconsider on Friday. “Big mistake,” he wrote on Twitter.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/us/politics/preet-bharara-us-attorney.html
Seems NY state GOPers want him there as long as he continues to investigate Cuomo and de Blasio.
Of course his being there would also mean he could pivot to investigating the Russia thing.
