JONATHAN KARL: Are you disappointed that the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia has not prosecuted Letitia James, do you intend to fire him?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, we’re going to see what happens. I am not following it very closely. It looks to me like she’s very guilty of something, but I really don’t know.
I know that the U.S. Attorney from the Eastern District or from that district in Virginia, that he was approved by two Democrat senators who, in my opinion, are among the worst.
And when I learned that two senators, Democrats, because, as you know, it’s very hard with the Blue Slip, it is very hard for a Republican to get somebody approved if you have one senator that’s a Democrat because of an old custom. It’s not a law, it’ s a custom. It’s a ridiculous custom, but if you had a Democrat senator, you have to get that senator approval. In this case, we had two.
When I saw that he got two senators. Two gentlemen that are bad news, as far as I’m concerned. When I saw that he got approved by those two men, I said, pull it, because he can’t be any good.
JONATHAN KARL: So you want Siebert fired, you want him out.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah, I want him out. Yeah. When I learned that he was blue-slipped through by two Democrat senators in Virginia, people that would never vote for it, people that haven’t voted for us for probably years, okay, probably years.
In my opinion, two bad guys, you know, they are Warner and Kane, two big guys, bad senators, too. They do a terrible job for the people of Virginia. But when I saw that he got approved by these two terrible people that haven’t voted, they just don’t vote. No matter what it is, we could give them the greatest deal ever and they still wouldn’t vote.
And they voted for this guy, and I have other people, judges, and U.S. Attorneys from other states who have the same situation, and they can’t get approved. So when I learned that they voted him, I said, I don’t really want him.