<p>Ex-prosecutor Preet Bharara told ABC news that he was fired after refusing to pick up Donald Trump&#39;s&nbsp;phone calls.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Former US Attorney <a href="https://twitter.com/PreetBharara">@PreetBharara</a> recounts &quot;very unusual&quot; calls with Trump: &quot;There has to be some kind of arms-length relationship.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/eviG27YT53">pic.twitter.com/eviG27YT53</a></p>
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<p>Bharara watched the Comey testimony and said&nbsp;he feels &quot;there is absolutely&nbsp;evidence to begin a case&quot; of&nbsp;obstruction of justice against&nbsp;the US president.</p>

<p>&quot;I think it&#39;s very important for all sorts of armchair speculators in the law to be clear that no one knows right now whether there is a&nbsp;<em>provable</em>&nbsp;case for obstruction. It&#39;s also true, I think, from based on what I see as a third party and out of government that there&#39;s no basis to say there&#39;s&nbsp;<em>no&nbsp;</em>obstruction.&quot;</p>

<p><strong>Why Bharara says he&nbsp;was fired</strong></p>

<p>Bharara&nbsp;says that President Trump&nbsp;tried to &quot;cultivate a relationship&quot; with him.&nbsp;Trump had asked him to stay on as&nbsp;the chief federal law enforcement officer, where Bharara&nbsp;had&nbsp;jurisdiction to investigate business interests in New York. Trump&#39;s business empire is based in New York.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Trump made&nbsp;two phone calls to Bharara while president-elect, &quot;sensibly, just to shoot the breeze&quot;, Bharara says,&nbsp;then a final call after he became president. Bharara says he didn&#39;t return this call, then he was fired.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Watch the above clip and watch Bharara&nbsp;describe how he thought the president&#39;s conduct was inappropriate.</p>

<p>Bharara&#39;s statement comes days after ex-FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, where he told lawmakers that he believed Trump was trying to pressure him to drop the investigation into the former head of national security Michael&nbsp;Flynn, which was a part of&nbsp;the probe into Russia&#39;s efforts to interfere in the 2016 US election.</p>

<p>Comey says Trump asked for &quot;loyalty&quot;, and instead Comey said he would give the president&nbsp;&quot;honest loyalty&quot;. Trump later fired Comey.</p>

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Preet Bharara wouldn't take the president's phone call, trying to keep an 'arms-length' relationship, then Trump fired him

Ex-prosecutor Preet Bharara told ABC news that he was fired after refusing to pick up Donald Trump's phone calls. Former US Attorney @PreetBharara recounts "very unusual" calls with Trump: "There has to be some kind of arms-length relationship." pic.twitter.com/eviG27YT53 — ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 11, 2017 × Bharara watched the Comey testimony and said he feels "there is absolutely evidence to begin a case" of obstruction of justice against the US president. "I think it's very important for all sorts of armchair speculators in the law to be clear that no one knows right now whether there is a provable case for obstruction. It's also true, I think, from based on what I see as a third party and out of government that there's no basis to say there's no obstruction." Why Bharara says he was fired Bharara says that President Trump tried to "cultivate a relationship" with him. Trump had asked him to stay on as the chief federal law enforcement officer, where Bharara had jurisdiction to investigate business interests in New York. Trump's business empire is based in New York. Trump made two phone calls to Bharara while president-elect, "sensibly, just to shoot the breeze", Bharara says, then a final call after he became president. Bharara says he didn't return this call, then he was fired. Watch the above clip and watch Bharara describe how he thought the president's conduct was inappropriate. Bharara's statement comes days after ex-FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, where he told lawmakers that he believed Trump was trying to pressure him to drop the investigation into the former head of national security Michael Flynn, which was a part of the probe into Russia's efforts to interfere in the 2016 US election. Comey says Trump asked for "loyalty", and instead Comey said he would give the president "honest loyalty". Trump later fired Comey.

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