A short tenure for the now former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia.

Last night, Todd Gilbert announcing his intention to step down from the prestigious post.

It came as quite a shock to many last night when he stepped down from that position.

Since Gilbert's resignation at 5 o'clock Wednesday evening, he has made no public comment

about his decision or reasoning.

Other than this post of a meme on his ex-account of Ron Burgundy from the movie Anchorman,

saying, boy, that escalated quickly.

If you feel like you're in the Twilight Zone, we'll explain.

Hi again, everybody.

It's 5 o'clock in New York.

Boy, that escalated quickly.

Put a pin in that.

It's important.

Now, at the time of this individual, Todd Gilbert's resignation as a U.S.

attorney for the Western District of Virginia this summer, we didn't really know a lot about him or why.

But now, thanks to brand new, revealing reporting in the New York Times,

we are learning the backstory about why he left his post just one month in.

Interestingly, his story is eerily similar to that of his counterpart, Eric Siebert, who was the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia and whose resignation we also covered recently.

Both of these men refused to succumb to pressure from Donald Trump, even though they were appointed by him and his Justice Department.

They refused to ignore actual facts

and the rule of law. Siebert, as we came to learn, refused to criminally charge Donald Trump's

perceived political enemies, Jim Comey and Tish James, because after looking at their cases,

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