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Is fired US attorney Preet Bharara trying to tell us something?

He tweeted, "By the way, I know what the Moreland Commission must have felt like"

Preet Bharara, US Attorney, Trump Tower
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US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, waits for the elevator in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York.

Cezary Podkul | ProPublica
Fired by President Donald Trump, Preet Bharara left behind a mysterious, thirteen-word message. "By the way, I know what the Moreland Commission must have felt like," he tweeted on Sunday.
Americans are getting used to deciphering the tweets of a president who eviscerates his enemies in 140 characters or less. So perhaps it's inevitable that a public official whom he dismissed would fight back in the same way — and similarly raising questions about the tweeter's intent and state of mind.
A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York said he

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