Fired US Attorney Preet Bharara Just Tweeted From Comey Hearing: ‘Lordy, We Hope There Are Tapes’
Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney who was also fired by Trump after assurances by the president that he would continue in his role as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, weighed in on Twitter Thursday from inside the Capitol.
“We can all agree with Jim Comey that, Lordy, we hope there are tapes,” Bharara tweeted — repeating Comey’s statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee that some of the then-FBI director’s conversations with the president might have been recorded and could perhaps corroborate his version of those encounters.
In March, Bharara was removed from his position as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he had gained a reputation for effective prosecution of high-profile cases involving corrupt politicians, terrorists, cyber hackers and white-collar criminals.