President Trump on Saturday tapped Mary “Maggie” Cleary as the new Acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
On Friday, Erik Siebert, the US Attorney from the Eastern District of Virginia who was under fire for not charging Letitia James, resigned.
It was previously reported that President Trump was gearing up to fire the US Attorney refusing to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud.
Siebert resigned Friday evening after President Trump blasted him as a ‘blue-slipped’ prosecutor to reporters in the Oval Office.
Mary Cleary is an attorney from Culpeper, Virginia, who recently said she was framed for January 6 and put on administrative leave as the Assistant US Attorney for the Western District of Virginia.
“Someone (still unknown to me) had contacted the Roanoke Times and alleged that they had a photo of me on the Capitol Grounds on January 6, holding a fractured piece of the Speaker Nancy Pelosi sign. The photo was circulated,” she wrote.
“Everyone knew I was a conservative. It was all over my résumé. I was in leadership in my local Republican Committee. But I had not gone to the Capitol that day. The girl in the photo looked nothing like me. Aside from sharing my race, she had virtually no common features to me,” she said.
“In the last four years, I’ve been somewhat cautious about sharing my experience, but now, while Donald Trump is president, I feel emboldened to finally tell how I, too, was targeted politically,” Cleary previously wrote.
Politico reported:
President Donald Trump has tapped a new top federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, a day after U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert resigned from the post amid attacks from the president.
Trump appointed Mary “Maggie” Cleary — a self-described conservative lawyer from Culpeper, Virginia, who has been active in Republican politics — as acting U.S. attorney, according to two people familiar with the decision and an internal email reviewed by POLITICO.
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