RUSSIA/РОССИЯ THREAD—ASSANGE CHRGD W/ SPYING—DJT IMPEACHED TWICE-US TREASURY SANCTS KILIMNIK AS RUSSIAN AGNT

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Just hours after refusing to hand in his resignation, Preet Bharara, the crusading U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced on Twitter that he had been fired. Bharara was asked to submit his resignation letter Friday, along with the 45 other U.S. Attorneys held over from the Obama administration. "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," he wrote.

Bharara met with Donald Trump shortly after the election and was told that he would stay. Just this week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions assured him in a phone conversation that he’d remain atop the Southern District, according to the federal law enforcement official.

Friday evening, the a law enforcement official told The Daily Beast, Bharara told his section chiefs that he’d yet to submit the requested letter and might instead challenge Sessions to fire him. Evidently, the White House did not back down.
 

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On Friday, acting deputy attorney general Dana Boente began making calls to 46 prosecutors asking for their resignations. Such requests are a normal part of a transition of power from one administration to another, and about half of the 94 Obama-era U.S. attorneys had already left their jobs.

But Boente’s call to Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, appears to have left some confusion in its wake, in large part because President Trump met with Bharara soon after the election and had asked him to stay on.

During Friday’s call, Bharara asked for clarity about whether the requests for resignations applied to him, given his previous conversation with Trump, and did not get a definitive answer, according to a person familiar with the exchange.

When asked Friday whether Bharara was also being asked for a resignation letter, one White House official not authorized to speak publicly said, “Everybody’s gone,” and would not engage further on the issue. Two people close to the president said the president’s chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon and Attorney General Jeff Sessions want a clean slate of federal prosecutors and are unconcerned about any perception that the White House appears to have changed its mind about Bharara.
 

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You gotta give it to these guys, if politics was a sports they would be the New England Patriots


We thought everything just sorta fell in to Trumps hands, turns out they've been playing this game for years


fukk Trump
Each side feels that way about the other. Or at least says they do.
 

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Wall Street is celebrating today :francis:

Also, stay focused on Russia/Flynn/Sessions. Trump Admin pulling tricks out of the hat to distract us. They knew firing Preet would distract us because it goes against what Trump promised him in November. Sessions is cozying into his job.
 

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Dems saying they might drop Russia investigation due to partisanship

:snoop:

We are fukked

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She beat Fox News in ratings for the first time this week. Her audience has grown from 2M to about ~3M off the strength of her reporting on Russia.
Never fails. MSNBC always get better rating when Republicans are in and Fox eats when Dems are in.


Comey is all we got to stop Cheeto:to:

Unless Brennan left some wolves in the CIA :ohlawd:
 
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