President Trump's decision to pull the Treasury nomination for former US attorney Jessie Liu was linked to her oversight of the Roger Stone and Andrew McCabe cases
Washington President Donald Trump's decision to abruptly withdraw a Treasury Department nomination for Jessie Liu, the former US attorney who headed the office that oversaw Roger Stone's prosecution, was directly tied to her former job, CNN has learned.
While head of the US Attorney's Office in Washington, Liu inherited many of the major ongoing cases from Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation and was also handling the politically charged case of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a frequent target of Trump's ire who is also a CNN contributor.
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