US attorney tasked with inquiring into Trump critics resigns after president says ‘I want him out’
by Sam Levine from US news | The Guardian on (#705PY)
Erik Siebert leaving after his investigation finds insufficient evidence to charge New York's attorney general Letitia James with a crime
The federal prosecutor for the eastern district of Virginia resigned Friday under intense pressure from Donald Trump, after his office determined there wasn't sufficient evidence to charge New York's attorney general, Letitia James, a political rival of the president, with a crime.
Erik Siebert told colleagues he was resigning in a letter sent Friday, NBC News reported. Meanwhile, in an early Saturday post on his Truth Social platform, Trump maintained that Siebert didn't quit - but rather: I fired him!"
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