His demand came a day after he ousted the federal prosecutor who failed to charge two of his most-reviled adversaries, Letitia James and James B. Comey.
President Trump’s campaign against U.S. attorneys is an extension, even an escalation, of the early purge that his top political appointees carried out at the Justice Department.
The push to remove Erik S. Siebert, a highly regarded career prosecutor, came as a shock in an office that handles some of the nation’s most sensitive national security investigations.
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