OH!
Per Axios: Trump pulls nomination for former U.S. attorney for D.C. to Treasury post .
That would be Jessie Liu, the controversial--from a conservative standpoint--FORMER United States Attorney for DC. Do you get the idea that Trump feels unbound after the absurd Impeachment Theater?
President Trump is withdrawing his nomination for former U.S. attorney for D.C. Jessie Liu to serve as the Treasury Department's undersecretary for terrorism and financial crimes, a top position overseeing economic sanctions, according to two sources with direct knowledge.
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Liu was expected to stay in her position through her confirmation — with a hearing before the Senate Banking Committee scheduled for this Thursday — but was unexpectedly informed last month that Attorney General Bill Barr was replacing her with his close adviser Timothy Shea.
She was informed that Trump was pulling her nomination Tuesday afternoon.
Behind the scenes: This was "the president's call," according to a former administration official familiar with the situation. The decision, which was made today, has administration officials questioning the circumstances that led to Trump changing his mind — with the developments in the Roger Stone case today being the only possible one they are aware of.
I'm getting the idea that the Dems and Team Mueller thought they were pulling a fast one, and that Liu was part of it somehow. Trump was having none of it.
UPDATE: Listening to Lou Dobbs and Devin Nunes. Nunes is ELATED that the Liu nomination has been pulled. Good enough for me.
Nunes then goes on to state clearly that the Stone prosecution was a fraud built on a hoax. And he compares it directly to the James Wolfe joke prosecution.
And then this:
Rep. Devin Nunes: Let me tell you something else… The lawyers who stepped down today the prosecutors who suggested 7 to 9 for Roger Stone. We believe that this is not going to be the only example. We believe there is other examples of things they did during the Mueller investigation that I think you and your listeners and the American people will be very interested to learn in the coming weeks. As we start to unpeel the onion of what the Mueller team was really doing. Because I would say this, when Mueller was appointed we have to ask ourselves, he walks in the door the first day and he said, “OK, show me all the evidence you got on the Russians?” They’re like, “Bob, sorry we don’t have any Russians here. We don’t have any evidence.” So what the hell did they do for two years? They set up an obstruction of justice trap. And they went after a whole lot of people who have now got sentenced. Some already served their time. And I think all of this has to be called into question now.