OREGON STANDOFF: OBAMA US ATTORNEY WHO PROSECUTED PROTESTERS KEPT PERMANENT BY PRESIDENT TRUMP

Billy J. Williams, the Acting US Attorney in Oregon  named by the Obama Administration (Attorney General Loretta Lynch) in 2015, is now President Trump's nominee for that post.

In a statement, the White House said that Williams and the other three US Attorney nominees in other parts of the country shared Trump's vision for "Making America Safe Again".

Williams prosecuted the protesters involved in the Oregon Standoff including the seven "leaders" found not guilty in October of 2016 and then prosecuted other protesters adding misdemeanor charges onto felonies and using a jury consultant.   His efforts along with US District Judge Anna J. Brown's restrictions on the defense's ability to present evidence and her bench trial on the misdemeanors all worked together to get convictions of the lesser people involved in the protest.

The two Democrats who represent Oregon in the US Senate, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley urged President Trump to nominate Williams to the post.

Williams was also endorsed by the Oregon State Sheriff's Association that backed the FBI led law enforcement efforts that became deadly and aggressive during the non violent Oregon Standoff protest.

(LaVoy Finicum was killed and Ryan Bundy injured in the January 26, 2016 "traffic stop" on US Route 395 in Harney County, Oregon and on February 10, 2016 FBI armored vehicles assaulted the parking lot of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge where the last four unarmed protesters were camping)

They sheriff's organization took a stand when one sheriff known as a "Constitutional Sheriff", Glenn Palmer of Grant County, urged a negotiated settlement of the protest including the release of  jailed ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond.    Ammon Bundy started the protest when the Hammond's were forced back into federal prison to serve mandatory five year terrorism sentences for lighting a backfire to protest their property.

(UPDATED THROUGH SATURDAY DECEMBER 18TH)