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

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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