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Trump tags legislator as U.S. attorney for California Central District

April 2, 2025

U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli

By KAREN VELIE

President Donald Trump tagged Republican Assemblyman Bilal A. “Bill” Essayli to serve as the new U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. He resigned from the legislature on Tuesday.

Chief U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee swore Essayli in on Wednesday. He now oversees the largest U.S. Attorney’s Office outside of Washington, D.C.

The office employs more than 250 lawyers which serve approximately 20 million residents in the counties of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura.

“It is the honor of a lifetime to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office and serve the people of the district that I have called home for so many years,” said U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli. “As our district’s chief federal prosecutor, I will work diligently and tirelessly with our federal and local law enforcement partners to implement the priorities of the president and the Attorney General and to protect our communities from criminals. Our citizens deserve no less.”

Mr. Essayli returns to the prosecutors office after serving as a twice-elected member of the California State Assembly, representing California’s 63rd State Assembly District.

As a federal prosecutor from Oct. 2014 through Feb. 2018, “Essayli brought justice to victims of violent and organized crime, identity theft, bank fraud, securities fraud and other white-collar crimes,” according to a press release.

 


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This assignment is a good start. It is HIGH time to clean up California elections. Say “goodbye” to the Democrat supermajority.


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Essayli, your first assignment is to prosecute Trump. Let’s call the case America vs. Trump.


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For what?


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Love the fact that a convicted felon/sexual abuser can install his pick of US attorney. Truly crazy times we are in.


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Hey, if you want to believe a woman who had a cat named “Vag!na”, go ahead. Crazy times indeed.


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I see you have no sense of humor or word play. That is funny.

It really only matters what a jury believes. They believed Donald Trump committed, civil, sexual assault and found him guilty. That is an undeniable fact.


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With no evidence.


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Trump:

Making California Great Again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5g7fsZMmyE


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I wouldn’t let at 78 year old watch my dog for more than an hour… Let alone be “running” the country. It’s too bad only one candidate had the decency to step down last year :/

EX: A: “Where’s the dog?” B: “It was a bad dog. A very bad dog he ran away. I don’t know what to tell you… I’m not sorry.” I can just hear it now.


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I, too am grateful that ol’ Joe had the “decency” to step down. Had he not come up with that idea, the country would be doomed. Just think of all that beach time he’ll get to enjoy now.


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