Bharara, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, was one of 46 U.S. attorneys asked to resign by the Trump administration last month. I insisted on being fired and so I was," Bharara said Thursday. Asked why he was fired, Bharara said: "Beats the hell out of me." It drains a particular kind of swamp,” Bharara said. One of his proudest moments as a U.S. attorney, Bharara said, was when he was asked to help swear 75 new U.S. citizens.

Source: Washington Post April 07, 2017 01:10 UTC