Top DOJ Official Directly Contradicts Trump Claim That President Fired Prosecutor for Refusing to Indict Comey

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Source: MEDIAite

Dec 21st, 2025, 3:26 pm


A top DOJ official directly contradicted President Donald Trump’s claim that he fired a federal prosecutor for refusing to pursue an indictment against James Comey. In an interview on Meet the Press Sunday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche denied that former federal prosecutor Eric Siebert was fired by Trump — claiming that Siebert actually resigned from his post. The exchange began with NBC’s Kristen Welker pressing Blanche on whether he communicates directly with Trump on criminal investigations.

“Let me ask you, President Trump in September urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute former FBI director James Comey, New York Attorney General Leticia James, and Senator Adam Schiff saying in a social media post that was supposed to be private, quote, ‘They’re all guilty as hell,'” Welker said. “Comey was indicted five days later. Does President Trump speak to you or to the attorney general directly about individual criminal cases and investigations, Mr. Blanche?” Blanche refused to comment on his direct communications with Trump, instead emphasizing that the DOJ had already been investigating Comey when Trump’s comments were leaked.

“And so with the case of James Comey, and he was indicted, the case was then dismissed by a judge because of an appointment’s issue, we were already investigating, which was very much available to the public at the time that President Trump sent that note,” Blanche said. “And so the fact that we continued to investigate and ultimately he was indicted is not a reflection of what President Trump put in that Truth. It’s a reflection of the work that we’re doing and have been doing long before September.”

Welker pressed the issue of Trump’s involvement further. “Just very quickly, career prosecutor Erik Siebert was fired after refusing to prosecute these cases against James Comey,” Welker said. “He was replaced by Lindsey Halligan, of course the president’s former personal lawyer who doesn’t have prosecutorial experience, who was found to be unconstitutionally appointed. And the cases were thrown out, as you say. To be clear is the Justice Department taking directions about who to prosecute from President Trump?”

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1. Blanche has previously confirmed that Trump had Siebert fired for failure to prosecute Comey. Blanche should testify

under oath in a Senate committee about all this. But he already knows how that ends.

In September, ABC News reported that Trump was expected to fire Siebert after investigators could not find sufficient evidence to indict Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, for mortgage fraud. According to The New Yorker, "Siebert had balked at bringing criminal charges against two of Trump's supposed enemies", namely Letitia James, and former FBI director James Comey. Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, initiated the plan to remove Siebert. On September 19, Trump gave an address from the Oval Office publicly calling for Siebert to be removed. Hours later, Siebert resigned. Trump rejected that assertion, saying that he had fired Siebert before he could resign. According to the Associated Press, Siebert was told to resign or be fired.[9] The following day, the Department of Justice named insurance lawyer and former personal Trump attorney Lindsey Halligan as his interim successor. In November, a federal judge ruled Halligan's purported appointment as unlawful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Siebert

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