Donald Trump took to Truth Social in the middle of the night to claim that he actually fired Erik Siebert, his hand-picked attorney for the Eastern District of Virgina, though Siebert had resigned hours prior.
“He didn’t quit, I fired him!”, wrote Trump at 12:14 AM.
Siebert reportedly was under political pressure to bring mortgage fraud charges against NY Attorney General Letitia James, a longtime target of Trump who successfully sued the president for fraud.
In April, Bill Pulte, the administration’s director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, encouraged Trump to go after James. The administration directed Siebert to investigate whether James listed her Virginia home as her primary residence to allegedly get more favorable loan terms.
After months of investigation, investigator