Posted on 09/09/2022 1:37:30 PM PDT by lowbridge
A book by a former top federal prosecutor offers new details about how the Justice Department under President Trump sought to use the US attorney’s office in Manhattan to support Trump politically and pursue his critics — even pushing the office to open a criminal investigation of former secretary of state John Kerry.
The prosecutor, Geoffrey S. Berman, was the US attorney for the Southern District of New York for 2 1/2 years until June 2020, when Trump fired him after he refused a request to resign by then-Attorney General William Barr, who sought to replace him with an administration ally.
A copy of Berman’s book, “Holding the Line,” was obtained by The New York Times before its scheduled publication Tuesday.
The book paints a picture of Justice Department officials motivated by partisan concerns in pursuing investigations or blocking them, in weighing how forthright to be in court filings, and in shopping investigations to other prosecutors’ offices when the Southern District declined to act.
The book contains accounts of how department officials tried to have allusions to Trump scrubbed from charging papers for Michael Cohen, his former personal lawyer, and how the attorney general later tried to have his conviction reversed. It tells of pressure to pursue Kerry, who had angered Trump by attempting to preserve the nuclear deal he had negotiated with Iran.
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The book comes as Trump and his supporters have accused the Biden administration and Attorney General Merrick Garland of using the Justice Department as a weapon after a judge authorized FBI agents to search Trump’s Florida house for missing classified records. Trump, who is a likely presidential candidate in 2024, has suggested without evidence that President Biden is playing a role in that investigation.
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Since I can’t smell it, I have to go by sound, and it sounds like BS.
Boston Globe is NOT a reliable news source. Next.Doesn't matter: mission accomplished.
Well Joe Biden is actually doing this and John Kerry did violate the Logan act by trying to undermine us policy in Iran there’s that
Clinton fired all the prosecutors when he first
took office. Trump should have done the same.
Nothing in the story matches the headlines. But hey it’s The globe
What a lie. Another Big Lie.
If his critics committed crimes then it was appropriate to call for prosecutions. The left is now attempting to prosecute Trump supporters when no crime is in evidence, as political payback. Trying to bankrupt them with legal fees.
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