So why wouldn’t he take Trump’s call. Claims he couldn’t legally. Is that because he was investigating Trump’s associates??? Is that who wiretapped Trump tower?
“So why wouldn’t he take Trump’s call.”
It all smells like political grand-standing to me. He gets to imply that he was “investigating” Trump. Yeah, no one has ever investigated Trump but this silly prick, and if he’s taken off the case all sorts of “Russian connections” will forever remain hidden.
Whatever this hack claims, the reason he wouldn’t take Trump’s call is because not doing so helps to lend credence to his upcoming mayoral run.
'In the call on Thursday, a woman who said she was from the president’s office left a voice mail message asking Mr. Bharara to call back, according to a person to whom Mr. Bharara described the call. The person, who was not authorized to discuss the matter, spoke on the condition of anonymity. Mr. Bharara conferred with his deputy about whether it would be appropriate to return the call, the person said.
Then he and his deputy, Joon H. Kim, reviewed Justice Department memos governing such contacts, the person added. Because the caller had not specified what the president wanted to discuss, they concluded that it would be prudent to not return the call and to instead contact the office of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the person said.
Mr. Bharara called the chief of staff to the attorney general, Joseph H. Hunt. “Mr. Hunt was direct and clear in our conversation that, given written White House contacts policy, my position as a sitting U.S. attorney, and my office’s jurisdiction, it would be improper for me to speak directly to the sitting president without knowing the subject matter,” Mr. Bharara said in his statement.'