There's a dozen cases tied to Trump that SDNY is investigating. Good point on Epstein, I wonder why BI did not cover it?
Thank you for taking care of this matter Mr. Barr. Bye, bye Mr. Berman. Have your fun for a week or whatever it gets you. Take plenty of notes too, Mr. Berman, so that you can write a book. It's all the rage these days among the Butt-Hurters.
Berman's appointment was another fuck-up that Jeff Sessions got Trump into. Sessions appointed him as interim U.S. Attorney or put Trump up to it but then he never worked the approval process through the Senate so the court had power under the statute to act in place of the senate to approve his appointment. Berman had been the acting U.S Attorney after Trump moved Preet Bhahara out, as I recall. What a mess. Lot of sloppiness there that has to be cleaned up now. And now Berman claims that because he was confirmed by the court that he can only be removed by the court. Yeh, good luck wit dat legal argument, Mr. Berman. As I said in the previous post, "have your fun for a week or so" if that does anything for ya. Mr. Barr gonna sit on him like a sumo wrestler, if not already- and you know that will not be pretty. But yeh, "Cleaner Barr" will clean this up.
Pretty quick week LOL https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/20/politics/geoffrey-berman-statement-firing/index.html
Indeed. As I said, Barr gonna sit on him like a sumo wrestler and that will not be pretty. A factor like that could shorten that week considerably. But Barr said that he was appointing Horowitz to monitor Berman while they worked it out so that smelled like a little dicking around shaping up. I guess, though, that once Barr opened his kimono, it was game over.
So Barr holds presser saying Berman has 'stepped down.' Berman tweets "That's not true , I have not resigned.'' Barr then sends another letter saying ''The President has fired you , as if now.'' Trump then tells reporters ''I had nothing to do with it . . . . I was not involved.'' OK. Trump ripped for denying he fired US attorney: ‘He really is dumber than a bag of rocks’ President Donald Trump on Saturday complicated his legal standing by denying that he had fired Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman. Barr wrote in a publicly released letter to Berman that, “I have asked the president to remove you as of today, and he has done so.” Trump, shortly afterwards, said, “I’m not involved.” Prett Bharara, who was the SDNY U.S. attorney prior to Berman, noted on Twitter how Trump had screwed up his legal authority with his statement. “DOJ’s own OLC opinion says that court-appointed US attorneys like Geoff Berman can be fired only by the president, not DOJ,” Bharara noted. “The president just said that he was not involved in the matter of Geoff Berman in SDNY. That means that though both Trump and Barr lie, at least one of them is lying about who is firing Berman,” he explained. Prominent Republican attorney George Conway agreed. Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti says Trump’s statement means Berman is still the U.S. attorney for SDNY. Renato Mariotti ✔@renato_mariotti If Trump isn’t involved in firing Berman, then it looks like Berman is still the U.S. Attorney. Barr doesn’t have the authority to fire Berman on his own. I’d like to take Barr at his word that Trump did, in fact, fire Berman. But Barr lied to us yesterday. https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1274437618726506497 … Josh Marshall ✔@joshtpm Trump on Barr's claim Trump fired Geoff Berman: "That's really up to him. I'm not involved"
Burr: Berman has resigned Berman: No I havent Burr: Berman was fired by trump trump: I am not involved What a clusterfuck. Everyday you think they cant get more incompetent. Then they say, hold this beer.
Replying to @SethAbramson 1/ There's a reason that Barr issued an edict forbidding every type of federal investigation that could uncover wrongdoing in the Trump reelection campaign—particularly campaign finance issues—and then opened his door to any evidence that Giuliani might offer him about Joe Biden. Seth Abramson @SethAbramson · 18h 2/ William Barr is a conspirator—alongside his longtime associates Rudy Giuliani, Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova—in facilitating foreign aid to Trump's campaign. There's a reason for all of the actions he has taken. There's a reason he's lying about Bolton's accurate account. Seth Abramson @SethAbramson · 18h 3/ The evidence is overwhelming—and I've compiled it. Nearly all those who want to illegally aid Trump's campaign have cases Barr can move. Firtash has an extradition case. Kolomoisky has one. Erdogan wants the Halkbank case over. China, ZTE. Barr's fingers are in *all* the pies. Seth Abramson @SethAbramson · 18h 4/ Bolton accurately described his expressions of concern to Barr about precisely these cases and Trump's efforts to impact them. At the time Barr said he agreed, now he's lying and saying that those conversations never happened. Why? Because ultimately they will implicate *him*. Seth Abramson @SethAbramson · 18h 5/ Everyone involved in the money laundering/illegal solicitation of foreign election aid Trump's campaign has been involved in has been clear that Barr is on the team and will play ball as to his piece in all this. Now we know why he perjured himself under questioning by Kamala. Seth Abramson @SethAbramson · 18h 6/ For all that people talk about Barr needing to resign and acting "inappropriately," there is *shockingly* little discussion about the fully-sourced information indicating that he is *actively involved* in the *criminal activities* Trump and his crew are being investigated for. Seth Abramson @SethAbramson · 18h 7/ As an attorney, I understand the reluctance to believe someone who's sworn to uphold the rule of law would be a criminal—it's much easier for us to say that Trump is the likely criminal and that Barr is "only" bending the rules to aid him. I'm afraid it's much worse than that. Seth Abramson @SethAbramson · 18h 8/ For the moment—as it takes a book to lay out all the evidence—I'll say this: if you see Barr's deeds through the lens of him being an *active co-conspirator* in the crimes prosecutors are investigating, you're going to have a *much* easier time understanding what's happening. Seth Abramson @SethAbramson · 18h 9/ I wish you all understood that I'm the sort of guy who doesn't believe in fantastical events. I'm an Occam's Razor guy. But once in a generation, a case comes along in which all the things you think would never actually happen in real life somehow do. This is that situation. Seth Abramson @SethAbramson · 18h 10/ Right now you shouldn't consider there to be significant daylight between Roger Stone running DOJ or Bill Barr running DOJ. The only difference is that the latter—as an attorney—knows far better than the "dirty trickster" Stone how to make the outcome you want *appear* legal. Seth Abramson @SethAbramson · 18h PS/ I understand the impatience for Proof of Corruption to come out. Please know that the book is being "crashed"—publishing parlance—as quickly as a book can be crashed. But the book in its *entirety* is nearly 1,000 pages—and it has 5,000 citations. I can't repeat it in tweets. Seth Abramson @SethAbramson · 18h PS2/ But if you sense real anxiety in my tweeting, understand that it's *not* because I'm just some average dude who doesn't like the look of what he's seeing on his TV. No—I researched and wrote a 1,000-page book on this subject and *know* what's going on and it's terrifying me.