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Why do my fellow journalists praise that anti-media prosecutor Donald Trump fired? | Mulshine

Posted on March 14, 2017 at 6:26 AM

BY PAUL MULSHINE

There is one phenomenon that I have never understood in the many years I have been in the news racket: the adulation many of my colleagues have for crusading prosecutors.

Am I the only one who’s noticed that these guys rarely return the favor?

A case in point is outgoing U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara. When his name appeared on the list of U.S. Attorneys who were asked to resign by President Trump last week, a great wave of keening and wailing went up from the press.

Typical was the New York Times, which ran this headline on a supposedly objective news article: “With Bharara’s Dismissal, Storied New York Office Loses Its Top Fighter.”

Storied?

https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/03/for_preets_sake_lay_off_the_praice_for_that_megalo.html#incart_2box_opinion

Editors Note: Former President Bill Clinton asked 93 politically-appointed U.S. attorneys to resign in 1993, which didn’t prompt as much media outrage as when President Trump did it.

Dustin Racioppi , State House Bureau, @dracioppiPublished 6:12 p.m. ET March 13, 2017 | Updated 4 hours ago

Gov. Chris Christie called “all this moaning and complaining” by two of the region’s prominent U.S. attorneys “ridiculous,” after they were ordered out of their posts by President Trump.

Christie, the former U.S. attorney for New Jersey, said Monday that those prosecutors – Paul Fishman, Christie’s appointed successor, and Preet Bharara, who led New York’s Southern District office – should have known and prepared for their transition out of their positions months ago. They had been appointed by former President Barack Obama, a Democrat, and “they received notice” by the electorate that they would not keep their positions much longer.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2017/03/13/christie-calls-fishman-bharara-reactions-ridiculous/99140568/