Politics & Government
Mark Warner Calls Firing Of Manhattan U.S. Attorney "Totally Inappropriate"
Warner denounced the late-night firing of the chief federal prosecutor in Manhattan on Friday, calling it "totally inappropriate."
Washington — Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, denounced the late-night firing of the chief federal prosecutor in Manhattan on Friday, calling it "totally inappropriate" and part of a pattern in which the Trump administration quietly announces the terminations of administration officials on Friday nights.
"I think it was appropriate for Mr. Berman to push back against what I think was totally inappropriate firing by first [Attorney General William] Barr and then it appears Donald Trump himself," Warner said Sunday on "Face the Nation."
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