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Bharara refused to return phone call from Trump citing DOJ rules
NY Post ^ | 3/12/2017 | Daniel Halper

Posted on 03/12/2017 9:28:35 AM PDT by GreaterSwiss

Edited on 03/12/2017 10:41:19 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

Prosecutor Preet Bharara was fired by the attorney general a day after he refused to return a phone call from President Trump, a report alleges.

An assistant to the president of the United States called Bharara

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bharara; doj; preetbharara; trump; usattorney
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To: Soul of the South

Why is not the province of journalism. How is. Why is a philosophical question to be answered by the reader. When you ask them why they can come up with anything they want and state it as fact.


81 posted on 03/12/2017 11:12:51 AM PDT by webheart (All comments are considered to be sarcasm unless otherwise noted,)
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To: mass55th

Sikh and ye shall find!


82 posted on 03/12/2017 11:13:39 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: tophat9000

Preset was the US Attorney for the Southern District of NY, Eric Schneiderman (a perfectly loathsome person and a political hack DeLuxe) is our “AG” in Gnu Yak. Preset brought the “three men in a room” down to one, Prince Andrew....we are doomed as a state.


83 posted on 03/12/2017 11:13:58 AM PDT by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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To: DoodleDawg

$430/week. The problem is if Preet was a political appointee with decision making responsibilities he may not be eligible.


84 posted on 03/12/2017 11:19:12 AM PDT by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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To: Hotlanta Mike
Some at The_Donald believe his termination was because he was slow walking/road blocking the Weiner investigation.
85 posted on 03/12/2017 11:21:34 AM PDT by kitchen (If you are a violin bow maker or restorer please ping me.)
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To: GreaterSwiss

Indians are famous for behaving like idiots, bunch of backstabbers.

TRUMP SHOULD FIRE ALL INDIANS WORKING AT CALL CENTERS FOR AMERICAN COMPANIES IN INDIA VIA EXECUTIVE ORDER!!!

Do It today!!

That’ll learn’em!!!!


86 posted on 03/12/2017 11:22:28 AM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: CyberAnt; null and void; grania; Impy; stephenjohnbanker; Liz; Lazamataz

Michael Moore has a golden opportunity here — a docu-drama extravaganza:

THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO TAKE THE PRESIDENT’S CALL

“Brave, fearless, intrepid. And fired for his immoral principles.”


87 posted on 03/12/2017 11:22:37 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Progressive Trickle Up policy: reward cronies, punish everyone else. 'Stimulus' shell game.)
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To: Shady

When you start “investigating” a political opponent.. there’s a fine line between legitament and corrupt investigation

Then Dem own self-righteous attitude is going to be their downfall.

That’s the problem when you take an “ends” justifies the “means” attitude

Because the “ends” was zero found...and the “means” the dems used is looking to be very corrupt & illegal


88 posted on 03/12/2017 11:28:41 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: BobL

He was almost certainly doing a kangaroo ‘investigation’ of Trump at the calling of his buddy Schumer.

...

Good theory. The call was actually a test to see if Preet was up to no good.


89 posted on 03/12/2017 11:41:57 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Soul of the South
Journalists used to be taught to answer the 5 “w” questions in a story - Who?, What?, When?, Where?, Why?.

They still are.

WHO did Trump mess with this time. WHAT did Trump do wrong now? WHEN did Trump first cook-up this evil plan? WHERE is Trump hiding the evidence? WHY was he ever elected, in the first place?

90 posted on 03/12/2017 11:52:32 AM PDT by JPG (TRUMP WINS!!)
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To: Qiviut

Dinesh kicks some serious @$$ in those tweets. Thanks for posting.


91 posted on 03/12/2017 11:54:30 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Freedom Trumps Fascism)
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To: GreaterSwiss

A note on the legal situation may help explain this.

Disclosure: I’m in the Civil Service, but I’m not a lawyer. However, this one is straightforward. Someone with legal training may correct me, but I think this one is simple.

The Constitution of the United States vests all executive power, including all prosecutorial power, in the whole huge United States Federal Government, in the President. Only the President has any prosecutorial power. Everyone else in the US Government, who acts as a prosecutor, is acting as the President’s agent, exercising the President’s power, by the President’s permission.

No rule of the Justice Department, or any other executive department, is binding on the President. All Justice Department regulations exist on the President’s authority. He may make exceptions to them, change them, or abolish them, whenever he wishes. Laws enacted by Congress can be binding on the President. Rules he makes himself, or which are made by his agents, acting on his authority, are not.

When a prosecutor, who has no power other than what the President grants him, decides not to talk to the President, and cites a rule under the President’s authority, as the justification for not taking his call, the right answer is “You’re fired.”

In the unlikely event that the President directs me to do something that’s against DoD policy, I would tell him that, and ask if he still wants me to do it. One should not allow one’s boss to disrupt the workings of the organization without being aware of it. Once he knows of the conflict, he may decide that keeping a steady operation is more important than whatever it is, and cancel the directive. Or he may decide to make an exception. Or he may decide to change the policy. In any case, it’s his call. My only role would be to see that his decision is an informed one, whichever move he decides to make.


92 posted on 03/12/2017 12:16:45 PM PDT by Keb
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To: aquila48
"So it was OK to meet with Trump but not to take his phone call?"

Exactly. Very weird rules. Face-to-face is okay but not a phone call? Do they allow text messaging? The rules would seem to allow a letter ... at least that's how Jeff Sessions was fired by Clinton.

Think there must be a lot more here than we know about. In any case, Preet Bharara certainly does not have the shortest tenure of anyone who was asked to work by Trump, and accepted.

94 posted on 03/12/2017 12:39:06 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: GreaterSwiss

So Loretta Lynch can meet with the prominent husband of a presidential candidate under a cloud of suspicions and investigations and a U.S Attorney won’t take a phone call from the President?


95 posted on 03/12/2017 12:45:33 PM PDT by Fhios (Right now it looks like the condemned dragging their feet on the way to the gallows.)
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To: aquila48

Check his phone records. I’m sure he’s been in contact with several Senators and Congressmen. Did he follow DOJ rules then?


96 posted on 03/12/2017 12:49:58 PM PDT by Fhios (Right now it looks like the condemned dragging their feet on the way to the gallows.)
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To: Rome2000

Wonderful, if it happened and we could understand their replacements.


97 posted on 03/12/2017 12:53:19 PM PDT by libstripper (nd)
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To: GreaterSwiss

Well F Prick, I mean preet whatever his stupid name was.


98 posted on 03/12/2017 1:10:41 PM PDT by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: Bronzewound
" I asked the perfect question for you, didn't I? Haha."

:-)

99 posted on 03/12/2017 1:15:22 PM PDT by Spunky
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To: GreaterSwiss

Maybe he thought it was a boiler room solicitation call.


100 posted on 03/12/2017 1:18:29 PM PDT by doug from upland (Hey, traitor Democrats. I have a tree. I'm sure another FReeper has a rope.)
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