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Justice Dept. seeks resignations of Trump-era US attorneys
Dissociated Press ^ | February 8, 2021 | Michael Balsamo

Posted on 02/08/2021 9:59:49 PM PST by Olog-hai

The Justice Department will ask U.S. attorneys who were appointed by former President Donald Trump to resign from their posts, as the Biden administration moves to transition to its own nominees, a senior Justice Department official said Monday.

But the U.S. attorney overseeing the federal tax probe involving Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, will remain in place. The acting attorney general, Monty Wilkinson, called U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who runs the federal prosecutor’s office in Delaware, and asked him to remain on the job, the official said.

The Justice Department has been investigating the finances of Hunter Biden, including scrutinizing some of his Chinese business dealings and other transactions. The tax investigation was launched in 2018, the year before the elder Biden announced his candidacy for president. Hunter Biden confirmed the existence of the investigation in December after a round of subpoenas was issued in the case. […]

Separately, U.S. Attorney John Durham, who was appointed in October by then-Attorney General William Barr as a special counsel to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, will remain in that capacity, the senior Justice Department official said, but is expected to resign from his other position as the U.S. attorney in Connecticut. …

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: bidendoj; doj; johndurham; justicedept
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1 posted on 02/08/2021 9:59:49 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The press is reporting this as appointing his own staff, whereas under a Republican administration, it is reported as a scandal for US Attorneys to be removed.


2 posted on 02/08/2021 10:01:20 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Olog-hai

The answer is “you are under arrest for plotting against the legal government of the United States of America”.


3 posted on 02/08/2021 10:02:03 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: Olog-hai

I am a senior.... we fought a war... more than one war.. for the freedoms we have had.... it’s your turn to stand in the gap and fight if necessary.. to save this nation and stop the carnage they are aiming at Trump... they won’t be satisfied till he is in exile and they have complete control to destroy you and me..and our children...and our grandchildren..

I cannot bear to see this happening....
it IS HAPPENING.. and we who sit and write about it. are denying the truth and what is happening under our nose!


4 posted on 02/08/2021 10:06:58 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: Republican Wildcat

It’s actually appointing his handlers’ staff, since Joek is busy filling his adult diapers in the shower with the dog.


5 posted on 02/08/2021 10:09:11 PM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: frnewsjunkie

This could be the end as the Bible describes or the beginning of a miracle to which God is given all the Glory. This world is not our home. We know how it eventually all goes down. The main thing is to make sure that people hear and understand God’s Salvation message for that is all that ultimately matters. https://www.thereishopeinjesus.com/


6 posted on 02/08/2021 10:11:46 PM PST by Maudeen (A question to answer, "Will my name be written in the Lamb's Book of Life?" Revelation 20:15)
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Durham appointed his Never Trumper girlfriend to Lead the Investigation.

There were two indictments, one showed up at the office with his lawyer unannounced wanting to plead guilty and caught them off guard, he got probation in a joke prosecution. The other indictment was of a man on the Internet that threatened Adam Schiff. That guy is going away.

The Delaware guy sat on a Hunter Biden laptop for 14 months and notice - it’s a Tax Investigation.

There are decades of charges he refuses to look it. He’s a Biden stooge.


7 posted on 02/08/2021 10:15:06 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: Olog-hai

Is there a union for Federal employees like those at the DOJ? Can the Trump-era people just be summarily terminated without cause? Of course, such evil people as those working for JoeHo could fabricate anything they wanted to get the results they wanted.


8 posted on 02/08/2021 10:15:07 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Olog-hai

God is either going to perform a mighty miracle or He is taking His Hand of Protection off America for their blasphemy. We are witnessing the good is evil and evil is good scenario right now.


9 posted on 02/08/2021 10:20:14 PM PST by Maudeen (A question to answer, "Will my name be written in the Lamb's Book of Life?" Revelation 20:15)
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To: Olog-hai

Can’t have any clear-thinkers in a government run by an Alzheimer’s patient.


10 posted on 02/08/2021 10:20:30 PM PST by JennysCool (2020: Aging “world socialists” promoting their ideology by scaring the crap out of gullible people.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

We are not supposed to notice the double standard


11 posted on 02/08/2021 10:20:42 PM PST by newzjunkey (America First - bring on Giant Meteor in 2021)
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To: Olog-hai

“The Justice Department will ask U.S. attorneys who were appointed by former President Donald Trump to resign from their posts,”

Translation; Many US attorneys appointed by Obama were left in place by that honorable man, President Trump.


12 posted on 02/08/2021 10:21:30 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: Olog-hai

I wouldn’t resign if I were them. I’d make them fire me.


13 posted on 02/08/2021 10:22:46 PM PST by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Shut the deuce up!!! I'll do the fighting!!!)
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To: Olog-hai

This communist purge needs to stop - NOW


14 posted on 02/08/2021 10:25:43 PM PST by Skywise
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To: Maudeen

I hear a consignment to the situation as being inevitable....

I can’t go there! I want evil stopped wherever it is... the left talk about reprogramming us... “we are redeemable”..as if it’s “we” who are off our rocker.... it is they... it is THEY who are without God and living in the worst of evil... they are lost and have no conscience to do what is right.... the only “right” going on was when Trump was in office.

They are on a roll and outside of a civil war... it’s a foregone conclusion they have enough power to take us over and THEN...we will wish we would have stopped them earlier. That is what ‘comfort’ does..it removes the urgency ... we’d rather sit and watch tv.


15 posted on 02/08/2021 10:27:19 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: Maudeen

I may be stark staring, barking mad by now but I still hold out hope for that miracle from God.


16 posted on 02/08/2021 10:31:14 PM PST by Salamander (There's Nothing For It But To Sit And Wait For The Hard Men To Get Me Out....)
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To: EinNYC

These are appointees. They serve ‘at the pleasure of the President’ - though they are a sort of hybrid since they have a tradition of being much less connected to politics than other appointees, or did before Clinton did a mass purge and then had his cronies be part of the chain reporting to him about the progress of cases against him and his. The Dems just try to turn it into a scandal any time the Republicans fire any.


17 posted on 02/08/2021 10:31:45 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Maudeen

I believe God has taken his hand off our Nation for a while now.
With the removal of Christian principles.


18 posted on 02/08/2021 10:50:40 PM PST by Pez149 (Time to stop saying a theory is fact....)
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To: Olog-hai

Well, won’t that be just peachy keen that all the crimes being worked on involving Obama et al, will all just magically disappear if Biden gets his way.


19 posted on 02/08/2021 10:52:56 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: frnewsjunkie

It’s not over.


20 posted on 02/08/2021 11:22:33 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix/1984.)
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