Call to END Mueller probe or go to Plan B or C!
An hour ago - the Hill is reporting:
Giuliani: Trump to use anniversary of Mueller appointment to press for end of Russia probe
Giuliani, "“We don’t want to signal our action if this doesn’t work — we are going to hope they listen to us — but obviously we have a Plan B and C,” he added."
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/387880-giuliani-trump-to-use-anniversary-of-mueller-appointment-to-press-for
POTUS did NOT interview Richard Donoghue?
POTUS interviewed Berman (US Attorney SDNY - appointed by Sessions and confirmed by Federal Court ~2 weeks ago)
POTUS interviewed Ed McNally for Eastern District but Donoghue got the job.
POTUS interviewed Liu (DC US Attorney).
"To be very blunt, these three jurisdictions will have authority to bring indictments over the ongoing special counsel investigation into Trump campaign collusion with the Russians and potential obstruction of justice by the president of the United States,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/19/trump-us-attorney-interviews-243962
Ohhh…
Federal Judges confirmed BOTH Berman and Donoghue….
NEITHER ONE WAS SUBJECT TO A CONGRESSIONAL CONFIRMATION - WEIRD!!!!
WAS THIS FOR OPTICS?
Judges for the Eastern District of New York named Richard Donoghue the chief federal prosecutor for the region that includes Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island on Thursday [April 26, 2018??] — one day before his interim appointment by Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions was to run out.
sauce:
https://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/us-attorney-eastern-district-richard-donoghue-1.18379748
Interim since January put in by Sessions and then the Sessions appointment was to run out 120 days later unless Judges confirmed, which they did.
It is still a weird chain of events instead of being confirmed by Congress.
Here's a better explanation
Exercising a seldom-used power, the judges of the Federal District Court in Manhattan voted unanimously on Wednesday to appoint Geoffrey S. Berman as the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, according to a court statement.
Mr. Berman was appointed interim United States attorney in January, and his 120-day term was due to expire next week. With no one yet nominated by President Trump for the Southern District position, the judges acted to fill it with Mr. Berman.
Under federal law, he will now serve until the Senate confirms a nominee by President Trump, whose administration has been slow to fill many posts in the executive and judicial branches.
It's what the Dems get for slow walking the nominations!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/nyregion/geoffrey-berman-us-attorney-manhattan.html