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Kayleigh McEnany
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29m29 minutes ago
Touching down soon for President @realDonaldTrump’s rally tomorrow in Green Bay, Wisconsin!
Heading straight to the rally venue at the Resch Center to join @seanhannity, @FoxNews in the 9 pm hour w/ @HeyTammyBruce guest hosting!
Tune in to Hannity tonight & the rally tomorrow!
Thanks anons!
https://www.theepochtimes.com/dana-boentes-many-critical-positions-within-the-trump-administration_2890008.html
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During President Donald Trump’s first two years in office, Boente has served as the acting attorney general, acting deputy attorney general, acting head of the Justice Department’s (DOJ) National Security Division, and currently serves as the FBI’s general counsel.
Boente also concurrently served as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) from Sept. 23, 2013, to Jan. 28, 2018. That’s a particularly significant assignment, as the EDVA often handles significant terrorism, espionage, and public corruption cases. One of the trials of Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, took place in an EDVA court, and the recently unsealed affidavit against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was filed in the district during Boente’s tenure. If Assange is extradited, his trial will take place in an EDVA courtroom.
To more fully understand Boente’s role, we need to go back to Jan. 13, 2017, when President Barack Obama issued a last-minute executive order that altered the line of succession within the DOJ.
Obama’s executive order placed the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia next in line behind the department’s senior leadership. The U.S. attorney at the time was Channing Phillips, an Obama nominee who had been named as acting U.S. attorney by Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Oct. 19, 2015. Phillips was never confirmed and remained as acting U.S. attorney throughout his tenure at the District of Columbia. Obama’s order removed Boente, the U.S. attorney for the EDVA, from the AG succession list and replaced him with Phillips.
Phillips was first hired by former Attorney General Eric Holder in 1994 for a position in the U.S. attorney’s office in the District of Columbia. In 2010, Phillips served as a senior adviser to Holder and stayed in that position at the Office of the Attorney General after Holder was replaced by Lynch in April 2015. Phillips, as the U.S. attorney for D.C., closed out a multiyear federal probe into illegal financing of former D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray’s campaign, with no charges filed against Gray.
The revised succession action wasn’t done in consultation with the incoming Trump administration, and Obama provided no rationale for his last-minute executive order, which placed the U.S. attorneys in the District of Columbia, the Northern District of Illinois, and the Central District of California as next, respectively, in the AG succession line.
It appears that the Obama administration was hoping the Russia investigation would default to Phillips in the event that Trump’s pick for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, was forced to recuse himself from the investigation. Sessions, whose confirmation hearings began three days before the order, already was coming under intense scrutiny.