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Robert K. McBride had been serving as the top deputy to Lindsey Halligan, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
A senior federal prosecutor in Virginia was fired after a disagreement about whether he would take charge of the Trump administration’s effort to re-indict James B. Comey, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
Robert K. McBride had been working in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia for only a couple of months. His firing is the latest development in the fallout in the Justice Department over President Trump’s effort to punish Mr. Comey, the former F.B.I. director and his longtime nemesis, whom the president blames for past investigations of his conduct.
Mr. McBride had been serving as the top deputy to Lindsey Halligan, a temporary assignment after he spent more than a decade as a federal prosecutor in Kentucky. The Trump administration made Ms. Halligan the U.S. attorney overseeing that prosecutor’s office last year.
The only case against Comey is that he dared to investigate Trump and Russian Interference in the 2016 General Election. In other Comey did his job, which put him on the wrong side of Trump.
A senior federal prosecutor in Virginia was fired after a disagreement about whether he would take charge of the Trump administration’s effort to re-indict James B. Comey, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
Robert K. McBride had been working in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia for only a couple of months. His firing is the latest development in the fallout in the Justice Department over President Trump’s effort to punish Mr. Comey, the former F.B.I. director and his longtime nemesis, whom the president blames for past investigations of his conduct.
Mr. McBride had been serving as the top deputy to Lindsey Halligan, a temporary assignment after he spent more than a decade as a federal prosecutor in Kentucky. The Trump administration made Ms. Halligan the U.S. attorney overseeing that prosecutor’s office last year.
The only case against Comey is that he dared to investigate Trump and Russian Interference in the 2016 General Election. In other Comey did his job, which put him on the wrong side of Trump.
