The New Republic tells the shameful story of Trump’s decision to fire Eric Siebert, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia for his failure to find evidence to indict New York State Attorney General Letitia James.
Trump has said repeatedly that he wants to bring retribution on his enemies. His Attorney General Pam Bondi has protected and obliged him, not only by not releasing the unredacted Epstein files, but by firing any lawyers who worked on Trump investigations while he was out of office.
Trump is determined to prosecute Letitia James, the New York Attorney General, James Comey, and Adam Schiff.
He assigned Erik Siebert, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, the job of prosecuting Letitia James. Trump hoped to get her criminally prosecuted for mortgage fraud, for having obtained a mortgage on a vacation home, getting a favorable rate by claiming it as her home. Unfortunately, the case fell apart when evidence emerged that she had not claimed her second home as her primary residence.
Trump was furious at Siebert.
Siebert announced that he had resigned since the President didn’t want him. Trump quickly contradicted him and said Siebert had not resigned, he was fired. Trump promptly announced a replacement, a conservative Republican, Mary “Maggie” Cleary.
Just last night, Trump expressed his frustration that there had not yet been indictments of his enemies.
The New Republic wrote before Siebert’s ouster:
Trump is set to remove Erik Siebert, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, for being faithful to facts, evidence, and guidelines governing good prosecutorial conduct, rather than fully corrupting his office to target Trump’s enemies.
That’s not a rhetorical cheap shot. It’s what Trump is actually doing, per ABC:
President Donald Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after his office was unable to find incriminating evidence of mortgage fraud against New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to sources.
Federal prosecutors in Virginia had uncovered no clear evidence to prove that James had knowingly committed mortgage fraud when she purchased a home in the state in 2023, ABC News first reported earlier this week, but Trump officials pushed U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert to nevertheless bring criminal charges against her, according to sources.
Nixon tried to hide his plots against his enemies. Trump says the quiet parts out loud.
What are they guilty of? Criticizing Trump and–in the case of Schiff and James– trying to hold him accountable.
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That post he did to Bondi does not say ‘Thank you very much for your attention to this matter’ so she can ignore it.
I guess he would rather be a laughing stock in court when it get tossed because of no evidence.
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The note itself may well be a reason for a judge to throw out any case targeting his adversaries.
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When US attorneys dare to uphold the rule of law, they get canned for doing their job. Then, DJT appoints an extremist loyalist that will fall in line with his agenda. Pathetic!
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Trump also fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on August 1, 2025, after the release of a weaker-than-expected jobs report. McEntarfer’s removal, following a report that also included significant downward revisions to job growth figures for prior months, was criticized by many economists and former government officials.
A number of former officials were fired or forced out of the Trump administration for failing to meet the president’s expectations, pushing back on his directives, or contradicting his public statements.
I failed to post the list because everytime I copies and pasted it into n this WordPress comment box, WordPress deleted my entire comment and I had to start over. This is my fourth try.
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I heard on the news that the inflation report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been delayed. The new director–from the Heritage Foundation–must have briefed the White House. It must be news they want to suppress.
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I was able to verify this on Axios . I can not understand why this is not a blaring headline on WaPo . Okay I understand why. How about the NY Times ? Is this not another example of , imagine if Biden did this! Sadly perhaps I understand since September of 2021 why it is not the headline of the NY Times as well. The Grey Lady is failing the Nation. I may soon add that subscription to the trash bin. With WaPo and Disney .
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Lloyd,
You might try posting your thoughts and then post the link as a reply to you post. That way if (or should I say when?) WP decides to not post the link at least you won’t have to redo everything.
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