Trump DOJ fires prosecutor who declined to pursue James Comey case

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The prominent career prosecutor had become the No. 2 official in the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia.

Trump DOJ fires prosecutor who declined to pursue James Comey case
The prominent career prosecutor had become the No. 2 official in the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia.

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The Justice Department has fired the No. 2 official in the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia after he declined to lead the controversial prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, according to multiple people briefed on the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to speak freely.

Robert McBride, 64, a Justice prosecutor and former Navy lawyer, was brought into the prominent satellite office of the Justice Department to serve as first assistant to U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan and took a more prominent role as her status was in question and after a judge ruled in late November that she was not legally appointed to run the office.

McBride, a prosecutor and former supervisor in a U.S. Attorney’s office in Kentucky, had been asked in recent days to run the Comey case, and told top Justice officials he felt it would be difficult to do that and also run the office, according to the people.

Halligan had also recently learned that McBride held private meetings with federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia, according to a source familiar with McBride’s removal.

[dalton99a]

1. They need another No. 2 to fire

[Tadpole Raisin]

2. Since vindictive prosecution is a likely ruling from

the judge re: the Comey case, this prosecutor should have a great case to sue them.

This administration is going to cost the government a lot when all is said and done.

I vote that after the next administration (please!) freezes his assets due to him stealing from the people of the United States, everyone in the government and private sector, that some of the money is set aside to pay for all the damages. Then sell everything he owns to those in need and turn his NY building into low income housing.

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3. Justice Department fires top career prosecutor in Lindsey Halligan-led office

The trump DOJ is a partisan operation

Link to tweet

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/12/politics/justice-department-virginia-fires-prosecutor-robert-mcbride

The top career prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Eastern District of Virginia office has been fired, according to three people familiar with the development Monday.

It is the latest dramatic change to the powerful prosecutors’ office that previously brought cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

The prosecutor, Robert McBride, was in the US Attorney’s Office for only a handful of weeks, working as No. 2 to Lindsey Halligan, who is President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the office as US Attorney but whose authority has been undercut in court.

McBride’s removal, supported by Justice Department leadership in Washington, leaves the office without a top prosecutor to manage the office and oversee investigations and cases, including ones Halligan has sought.