Boy, that escalated quickly: Trumpers run off Todd Gilbert from U.S. Attorney post [View all]

Source: Augusta Free Press Waynesboro, VA

Published date: August 21, 2025 | 3:26 pm
Updated: August 21, 2025 | 3:54 pm


Todd Gilbert resigned his post as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia on Wednesday, apparently after being told by higher-ups in the Trump administration that his nomination was going to be pulled from consideration by the U.S. Senate, following a failed loyalty test.

This all went down just five weeks after Gilbert, a former Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, most recently the Republican Minority Leader, and a state delegate from Woodstock, 70 miles north of our home base in Waynesboro, had been sworn in as the interim U.S. Attorney.

I failed to mention in all of that – Gilbert, who also resigned his 33rd House District seat and dropped out of his re-election race to take the U.S. Attorney job – is a reliable MAGA, or at least he was.

Who knows, now maybe he joins Liz Cheney and Larry Sabato at UVA. His only comment to this point on the machinations that led to his ouster has been a meme posted to his Twitter account. The meme is Ron Burgundy, of “Anchorman” fame, from the scene after the back-alley fight of the TV news crews, that has Burgundy, as portrayed by actor Will Farrell, saying, “Boy, that escalated quickly.”



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