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US attorney resigns amid pressure from Trump after sources say he refused to charge NY AG Letitia James
Erik Siebert's investigation found no clear evidence of wrongdoing, sources say.
"It looks to me like she is very guilty of something, but I really don't know," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday.
When asked about Siebert, Trump said he wanted him "out" of the position because Virginia's two Democratic Senators supported his nomination. Trump nominated Siebert for the position in May, and he has served as the interim U.S. attorney since Trump's inauguration."
"When I saw that he got approved by those two men, I said, pull it, because he can't be any good," Trump said. "When I learned that they voted for him, I said, I don't really want him."
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James has denied wrongdoing, and her lawyer, in a statement on Friday, called the reported firing of Siebert a "brazen attack on the rule of law."
"Firing people until he finds someone who will bend the law to carry out his revenge has been the President's pattern -- and it's illegal," Abbe Lowell said Friday morning in a statement to ABC News.
"Punishing this prosecutor, a Trump appointee, for doing his job sends a clear and chilling message that anyone who dares uphold the law over politics will face the same fate."
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I hope Trumpers are happy now that they have a KING rather than the LAW.