Ex-U.S. Attorney Bharara tells of 'unusual' calls he received from Trump

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-bharara-idUSKBN19211S

U.S. | Sun Jun 11, 2017 | 2:41pm EDT
Ex-U.S. Attorney Bharara tells of 'unusual' calls he received from Trump

By Sarah N. Lynch | WASHINGTON


Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara revealed on Sunday that he received a handful of "unusual" phone calls from Donald Trump after the November election that made him feel uncomfortable, and said he was fired after declining to take the third call.

Speaking on ABC News' "This Week" in his first televised interview since Trump fired him in March as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Bharara said he believed Trump's calls to him violated the usual boundaries between the executive branch and independent criminal investigators.

"It's a very weird and peculiar thing for a one-on-one conversation without the attorney general, without warning between the president and me or any United States attorney who has been asked to investigate various things and is in a position hypothetically to investigate business interests and associates of the president," Bharara said.

He added that during President Barack Obama's tenure, Obama never called him directly.

Bharara's comments came just a few days after former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey testified at a congressional panel that Trump had asked him to drop an investigation into former Trump aide Michael Flynn and his alleged ties to Russia.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-bharara-idUSKBN19211S

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Republican rank and file dont care, their strongman hates blacks too, dont you know!

[BSdetect]

2. The plot thickens

[many a good man]

3. Trump's big adjustment from business to government

In government you actually find people with integrity and a shred of honor

[babylonsister]

4. He hasn't adjusted a bit. nt