President Trump's personal lawyer bragged about influencing the president's decision to fire then-U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, according to a new report.

Sources told ProPublica that Marc Kasowitz, the private lawyer representing Trump in the Russia investigation, told the president that Bharara "is going to get you" before the firing. The sources added that Kasowitz is known to exaggerate but did not specify whether they believed the lawyer was doing so at the time of his comment.

Bharara was a high-profile district attorney who convicted major New York political officials.

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While Trump initially told Bharara during a meeting before the inauguration that his job was safe, the president reversed course and fired Bharara along with a slew of Obama-administration holdovers in March.

That house cleaning was standard, but it raised eyebrows because of Trump's previous pledge that Bharara could keep his job, as well as later reports that Bharara's office was investigating Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price.

Bharara has become a vocal critic of Trump since his firing and needled the president on Twitter upon the ProPublica report's release.

"Sheesh, I haven't even had my covfefe yet," Bharara said, referring to a widely shared typo in one of the president's tweets.