The unjust customs of Donald Trump

          Your boss fires you from job for not picking up his call. Can you imagine such a situation?

          During a fraught phone call at 2:30 in the afternoon on Saturday, the fate of the US attorney in Manhattan came to a head: Preet Bharara was out.

          But was he fired, or did he resign?

          Bharara tweeted on a personal account that he had been fired.
But an official familiar says, acting deputy attorney general Dana Boente never said the words “you’re fired.”

          There is no particular legal or practical difference between being fired or asked to resign,but politically the stakes are enormous.

          Bharara said he had been fired after he defied arequest to resign. The move was a surprise because, Bharara had told reporters in November that Trump had asked him to remain in the job. 

          Preet Bharara, who served as a United States district attorney in New York, said Mr. Trump tried to contact him on three occasions, whereas his predecessors, President Obama, did not call him a single time in seven and a half years.

          Mr. Bharara said he refused to take the calls as he was uncomfortable about fostering close contact between the White House and independent criminal investigators.

          “The number of times that President Obama called me in seven and a half years was zero,” he said 

          “The number of times I would have been expected to be called by the president of the United States would be zero because there has to be some kind of arm’s length relationship given the jurisdiction that various people had.”      

     Mr. Trump sought to “cultivate some kind of relationship” after a meeting in 2016, but 

this became “inappropriate” after he took office, said Mr. Bharara.

         The White House has not issued a response to the claims.
          It marks the latest incident where the president has been accused of crossing boundaries to influence independent organizations such as FBI.

          James Comey, the former FBI director was unceremoniously sacked by the president earlier in May at the height of an investigation into suspected collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

          Bharara who admitted a sense of ‘déjà vu’ after former FBI director James Comey described his talks with the president.
He then compared the phone calls to the awkward June 2016 meeting at a phoenix airport between former President Bill Clinton and then Attorney General Loretta Lynch who was investigating Hillary Clinton’s email server.

          Currently, Bharara’s post is occupied on an acting basis by his deputy, Joon Kim. All but a handful of the 93 US attorneys also currently hold their jobs on an acting  basis.

          With the firing President trump

 has sent the mistakable message to Justice Department and other law enforcement officials that if they refuse to toe the White House line – or if they poke their nose in places the White House doesn’t want them too- they may not keep their jobs for long.

          He is giving the same message to other nations too. All the other nations and their governments will now think that they too can do this to their officers. If somebody refuse to be ‘that loyal’ to them, then they can terminate them from their job.

           Ignoring President’s call a good habit? That too doesn’t sounds normal. Whatever the reason for not picking the call, you must admit that he is ‘the President’. And the President used that power too!!