St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner, a prosecutor bankrolled by Democrat megadonor George Soros, announced on Thursday that she is resigning from her position after facing pressure from the state’s Republican attorney general to resign and as she is facing a criminal contempt investigation for failing to do her job.

“Unfortunately, since the time I took office, as the first Black, female prosecutor in the State, people outside of the city have targeted me and, to advance their goals, have also targeted the fundamental rights of the city’s voters,” she claimed in a statement.

“In recent days, for example, The Missouri State Legislature began hearings on a bill that appears to permanently remove the right of every St. Louis voter to elect their Circuit Attorney, the only remaining elected position in our city’s criminal justice system,” she said. “Instead, that bill gives the Governor the power to appoint our city’s chief prosecutor.”

She bemoaned that pressure to remove her from office mirrored Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ decision to remove a Soros-backed state attorney last year. Another Soros-backed state attorney in Florida said last week that she also expects DeSantis to remove her from office in the near future. DeSantis is the only governor to remove a Soros-backed prosecutor from office.

“This most recent bill is a part of a coordinated, long-standing strategy to undermine me and my efforts to make the City of St. Louis safer and fairer,” she claimed. “Since day one of my tenure as Circuit Attorney, I have experienced attacks on my reforms, on my judgment, on my integrity, on my prosecutorial discretion, on my responsibility to direct the limited resources of this office and more.”

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