Convicted felon President Trump has ordered the firing of US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Erik Siebert for refusing to bring charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James over the bullshit “mortgage fraud” allegation concerning a home in the Old Dominion State in 2023 that is currently occupied by her niece, the Washington Post’s Carol Leonnig reports.
ABC broke the news late Thursday, building on their reporting from earlier in the day but had characterized this as more of failure – as Siebert definitely tried with as many as 15 witnesses brought before a grand jury – rather than the apparent direct insubordination of not pursuing a dead-end case that Leonnig describes writing “This is frightening prosecutors far and wide – as [Siebert] was seen as loyal to Trump team and simply didn’t see a basis to bring criminal case.”