Barbara McQuade
speaker
424 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 7 Feb
Barbara McQuade’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But we had just days before been told by the new Attorney General Jeffrey Sessions that we would be allowed to leave when our successors were named so as to promote an orderly transition of power.
And suddenly something irked
President Trump, I know Preet Bharara, the U.S.
attorney in the Southern District of New York, thinks it was his failure to return his phone calls that got him angry and got him fired and then and all the rest of them, too.
So I don't know how that happened, but it just struck me as an example of putting public spite ahead of what was in the best interest of the American people.
Yeah, it's not uncommon for somebody to be told you must resign.
And I suppose in some ways that's a face-saving way out to resign.
It also protects the leader from criticism that they fired this person while they resigned.
What else could I do?
I think the facts on the Eric Siebert departure from the U.S.
Attorney's Office are a little murky.
He said that he was resigning, but then President Trump took credit in a –
Truth Social post a few days later to say, you know, he was a woke rhino who was never going to do the job.
He didn't resign.
I fired him.
So I don't know what the facts are there.
But I think it's fair to say he was forced to leave over his decision.
And it may be the Comey case.
It may be the Letitia James case.
But over some of these decisions where President Trump was urging criminal charges and a seasoned professional prosecutor declined to do so.
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