Following the 2016 election, Bharara met with then-president-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in November 2016.[119] Bharara said that Trump asked him to remain as U.S. Attorney, and he agreed to stay on.[120][121]
On March 10, 2017, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered all 46 remaining United States Attorneys who were holdovers from the Obama administration, including Bharara, to submit letters of resignation.[122] Bharara declined to resign and was fired the next day.[123][124] In a statement, Bharara said that serving as U.S. Attorney was "the greatest honor of my professional life" and that "one hallmark of justice is absolute independence and that was my touchstone every day that I served." He was succeeded by his deputy, Joon Kim, as acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.[123][124]
There were expressions of dismay over the firing from Howard Dean, U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren to New York State Republican Assemblymen Steve McLaughlin and Brian Kolb, the Assembly Minority Leader.[125]
It has been reported that in spring 2017, Trump's personal attorney Marc Kasowitz told associates that he had been personally responsible for getting Bharara fired, saying he had warned Trump, "This guy is going to get you".[126] Bharara said that he was dismissed 22 hours after refusing to take a phone call from Trump.[127]
A leading candidate to replace Bharara on Trump's short list is former Fox News chief Roger Ailes’s personal lawyer, Marc Mukasey, the son of former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey.[128][129]
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