Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York whom President Donald Trump fired in March, is joining CNN as a legal analyst, the network announced Wednesday.
CNN also hired former Director of the United States Office of Government Ethics Walter Shaub, who resigned in July, as a contributor. At the time, Shaub said the government’s ethics were “pretty close to a laughingstock.”
Bharara has been a critic of the Trump administration since being fired in March — just months after getting personal assurance from the president that he would remain in his job as a top federal prosecutor.