President Donald Trump told a group of reporters in the Oval Office last Friday that he wanted to fire Erik Siebert, the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

“Yeah, I want him out,” Trump said when asked if he was disappointed that Siebert hadn’t brought charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James. State & Regional Crime

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Late Friday evening, the Associated Press reported that Siebert had in fact resigned. Siebert confirmed his departure in an email to colleagues, reviewed by the Associated Press, in which he praised them as the “finest and most exceptional” of Justice Department employees but made no mention of the political tu

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