One interesting note.... Trump and Barr do not have the power to fire a U.S. Attorney that was not confirmed by the Senate but appointed by SDNY Judges. Berman does not have to resign until the Senate confirms his replacement. Twitter Explodes After SDNY US Att’y Fires Back at AG Barr Over Attempt at Forcing His Resignation: ‘Holy Sh*t’ https://www.mediaite.com/news/twitt...-attempt-at-forcing-his-resignation-holy-sht/ Legal and political pundits were similarly aghast as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, publicly called out Attorney General Bill Barr and announced that he was not “stepping down” despite Barr’s late Friday night press release claiming that. Such a raw, public feud between two of the most powerful figure in the nation’s Justice Department elicited both shock and awe online and prompted the deployment of ominous terms like “unprecedented,” “truly shocking,” “constitutional crisis,” and “impeachment.” If the Trump administration was trying bury a major personnel move in the news desert before a summer weekend amid several overlapping national crises and before a huge Trump rally, the gambit seemed to backfire. Instead, numerous people, and some members of Congress, immediately called for oversight and public hearings about the attempted “Friday night massacre.” (Much more at above url)
Think I found it He has been the US attorney for Manhattan since 2018, and under his leadership, his office prosecuted Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen, is investigating top Trump confidante Rudy Giuliani and indicted the former New York mayor's associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton writes in his forthcoming book that in 2018, Trump offered to help Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with a Justice Department investigation into a Turkish bank, Halkbank, with ties to Erdogan that was suspected of violating US Iran sanctions. Trump, according to Bolton, told his Turkish counterpart that the Southern District prosecutors "were not his people, but were Obama people," and the problem would be fixed when they were replaced by Trump. At the time, Berman had already been installed in New York office. Berman and the Justice Department brought a case against Halkbank in October 2019.
Whatever happened to Russian collusion? When Tony Stark and GWB-Trading are on the same team what could possibly go wrong?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/politics/ny-berman-statement/index.html Geoffrey Berman, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York who has investigated a number of associates with ties to President Donald Trump, said he will not leave his post shortly after the Department of Justice announced late Friday night he was stepping down. Read his full statement: "I learned in a press release from the Attorney General tonight that I was 'stepping down' as United States Attorney. I have not resigned, and have no intention of resigning, my position, to which I was appointed by the Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. I will step down when a presidentially appointed nominee is confirmed by the Senate. Until then, our investigations will move forward without delay or interruption. I cherish every day that I work with the men and women of this Office to pursue justice without fear or favor -- and intend to ensure that this Office's important cases continue unimpeded."
Did Twitter Explode or did it break the internet? Maybe someone clapped back or threw a little shade?