****BREAKING**** Preet Bharara Is Fired After Refusing to Step Down as U.S. Attorney

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Preet Bharara, the Manhattan federal prosecutor who was asked by President Trump to remain in his post shortly after the election, was fired on Saturday after he refused an order to submit his resignation.

Mr. Bharara’s dismissal capped an extraordinary showdown in which a political appointee who was named by Mr. Trump’s predecessor, President Barack Obama, declined an order to submit a resignation.

“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,” Mr. Bharara wrote on his personal Twitter feed, which he set up in the last two weeks.

Mr. Bharara was among 46 holdover Obama appointees who were called by the acting deputy attorney general on Friday and told to immediately submit resignations and plan to clear out of their offices. But Mr. Bharara, who was called to Trump Tower for a meeting with the incoming president in late November 2016, declined to do so.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/us/politics/preet-bharara-us-attorney.html?_r=0

[DesertRat]

1. Here's his tweet

Link to tweet

[ffr]

2. GOP in total panic mode, taking an axe and just swinging away without discretion.

Sessions has to hold onto his seat of evil power. He's tRumps last line of defense before this whole deck of cards comes tumbling down.

BTW, where is ol' Rumpy boy today? Is he underground in a bomb shelter or something?