Federal Prosecutor in charge of investigating Trump’s discount, Leitia James, to resign under pressure

The Federal Public Prosecutor in charge of monitoring allegations of fraud in the mortgage against the New York Prosecutor Littia James resigned on Friday after President Donald Trump said he no longer wanted to serve in this position.

Eric S. Sepit, the American lawyer in the eastern region of Virginia, resigned in an email to colleagues obtained by NBC News.

Trump launched an attack on Friday at Seibert, who was assigned to follow up on mortgage defrauding against James, Trump’s enemy has long been.

“I want him to go out,” Trump told reporters at the Oval Office when asked if he wanted to be launched.

The Ministry of Justice refused to comment and the Sepert office and did not immediately respond to the requests for comment.

Trump administration officials are pressing Sieber to investigate the mortgage fraud against James.

Two federal law enforcement officials at NBC News said on Wednesday that this investigation had stopped about fears of federal agents and prosecutors who felt lacked evidence to obtain a conviction if the case would go to trial.

James denied committing any violations.

Speaking to journalists at the Oval Office on Friday, Trump – who was nominated Spert earlier this year – expressed his regret for the custom “Blue Blue” for the Senate, which allowed democracy Tim Kane and Mark Warner of Virginia to recommend Sipran for this position.

He referred to Kane and Warner as “two bad guys, members of the bad Senate, as well, and they are doing a terrible job of the people of Virginia.”

In a joint statement on Friday, Senate members criticized Trump for the “direction” of Separte “, who they referred to as” the moral prosecutor who refused criminal charges against Trump’s enemies, when the facts are not supported. “

They added: “The eastern boycott in Virginia is at the forefront of important issues necessary for our national security, and like any court in America, it must focus on justice instead of revenge on the president of high -skinned.”

Last month, the New York Appeals Court rejected a $ 500 million ruling for civil fraud caused by a case filed by the James office, which accused Trump and his companies of routinely amplifying property values ​​in financial statements.

in Social media yet Last month, the court’s decision praised Trump indicated James that it was a “political penetration” and “corrupt and incompetent and who brought this case only for a political harm.”

The investigation of James is not the first time that the mortgage defraud demands have been investigated by the Trump administration in relation to one of Trump’s imagined political opponents.

Lisa Cook’s Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve, Lisa Cook, was referred to the Director of the Federal Housing Agency, Bill Polly, a Trump politician. Trump cited these allegations as a justification or shooting and asked the Supreme Court to weigh. Cook denied the mortgage allegations and refused to leave her position on the Board of Directors.