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Friday, February 12, 2021

4 years after calling move a 'scandal,' media don't bat an eye as Biden fires U.S. attorney

By C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal February 10, 2021 

Four years ago, when then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked for the resignations of U.S. attorneys appointed by the Obama administration, it was nothing short of a scandal for the mainstream media.

Never mind the fact that a president and his attorney general are well within the boundaries of propriety to do so. Trump and Sessions, according to the liberal media, were violating norms by giving little warning of the decision and calling for the prosecutors to resign immediately -- "norms" being the most precious thing our republic has.

The refusal of former U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara to resign made him into an early icon of #TheResistance;.........Four years later, when Joe Biden's administration goes down the same avenue: Norms? As in Norm Macdonald?

Yes, on Tuesday, the getting-back-to-normalcy president took the supposedly very abnormal step of requesting almost all of the U.S. attorneys who were holdovers from the past administration, 56 in total, to submit their resignations. The cries were somewhat more subdued this time........The difference between the Trump firings and Biden firings, all these sources seemed to intimate, was the time frame. Biden is giving the attorneys a little less than three weeks to wrap up, whereas the Trump administration called for the resignations to be effective immediately.

This doesn't quite hold water for two reasons, though......To Read More....




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