Trump ousting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, bringing in former SEC Chairman Jay Clayton

President-elect Donald Trump connected Thursday said helium would regenerate Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney Damian Williams with his erstwhile president of the Securities and Exchange Commission Jay Clayton. 

The nomination, which Trump announced successful a Truth Social post, comes arsenic Williams is overseeing respective high-profile cases successful the Southern District of New York — including the nationalist corruption lawsuit against Mayor Adams and the enactment trafficking lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs. 

“Jay is simply a highly respected concern leader, counsel, and nationalist servant. Jay received Engineering and Law degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, and an Economics grade from the University of Cambridge,” Trump wrote of the erstwhile SEC chair, considered 1 of his adjacent allies and a predominant play buddy.

“Jay is going to beryllium a beardown Fighter for the Truth arsenic we, Make America Great Again.”

A spokesperson for Williams’ bureau declined to comment. 

It’s not the archetypal clip Trump has looked to Clayton for the position.

He tried to bash truthful without occurrence successful 2020 aft erstwhile Attorney General Bill Barr unceremoniously fired erstwhile Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman aft Berman refused to measurement down. Berman, astatine the time, was investigating respective allies of the president, including Rudy Giuliani.

Berman objected to the information due to the fact that Clayton had ne'er been an SDNY alum, similar astir erstwhile SDNY bureau chiefs, The News reported.

Berman’s deputy, Audrey Strauss, yet took implicit successful an acting capableness until President Biden nominated Williams successful 2021, making him the archetypal Black American to pb the almighty prosecutor’s office.

This processing communicative volition beryllium updated.