The Trump administration fired a top prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia following reports that he would not take up a case against former FBI Director James Comey or New York Attorney General Letitia James — both longtime foes of President Donald Trump.
Robert McBride, 64, was the first assistant to U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan before a recent ruling from U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie declared she was improperly appointed.
A pair of cases against Comey and James were tossed out as a result of the ruling. But according to MS NOW, the Trump administration approached McBride for several days to take up the case against Comey, which the network’s sources said he declined.