Barr Ousts Manhattan US Attorney, Taps SEC Chair For Role | Talking Points Memo

Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoff Berman was suddenly replaced on Friday night, Attorney General Bill Barr said in a statement.


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Donate. Volunteer. We must win.

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Berman must have been getting too close to something big.

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The latest in our Friday Night Serial Killings.

Three things I pray are true:

  1. Donald Trump and the GOP are massively trounced in November - and I’ll do everything I can to make that happen.
  2. The career folks in these offices are taking careful notes and securing all records.
  3. After 1 & 2 we have a massive investigation of the DOJ to find out just what’s going on.
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Nothing to see here, folks. Enjoy your weekend.

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Some whistleblowers and former position holders need to step up now and expose what’s going on. I don’t think we have 5 months left to let Trump & Barr further dismantle our government, our constitution.

The Supreme Court pushback, Mattis speaking out - may be a glimmer that there is a force growing that can be gathered and used to push these traitors/criminals against the wall and stop this destruction.

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Yes we must. This is horrifying. All we do is move from horror to new horror.

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Is that the South East Conference or the Securities Exchange Commission?

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“[Clayton]has never worked as a criminal prosecutor, a lacuna that is sure to raise eyebrows.”

That’s the whole purpose of moving him there.

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Do I see a House subpoena in Mr. Berman’s future?

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(begin Arte Johnson voice)… very interesting!

Barr is just trying to delay things until the election, but SDNY is a big organization. Someone will drop the dime on Trump if there is any real dirt in the investigations.

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Well this certainly stinks. Friday night, the expected time for a tentacle to emerge from the swamp I suppose.

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Don’t Trump’s tax affairs come under Manhattan? Maybe someone’s rattled by the way the Supreme Court has been going this week.

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Desperation Donnie is desperate. We have to vote him and Cohn, er, I mean Barr, and the rest out of office.

Just saw on MSNBC that 40% of Kentucky workers have filed for unemployment. Moscow Mitch must be feeling vulnerable.

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Oh yes…THIS doesn’t look suspicious…the biggest question is why Barr decided to toss his whole career to follow a scofflaw despot…

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Wheels within Wheels.

The fix is weaseling its way in…

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Berman was offered the civil rights division, said no, asked to resign and said no. So he was fired. Berman is a Trumper and was Trump’s hand picked appointment so they are cannibalizing their own. GOP House and Senate members rake note.

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The guy is 70. What career? I’m not sure he had any great reputation or anything.

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No truer words…

Just to add to the pile, did you see Rachel’s show tonight and the story on the gutting of the Voice of America, et al? They put a Bannon acolyte in as CEO. I believe his title is Reichsminister for Propaganda.

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Voting in the pandemic is not an issue of exposure as if you went to the sports bar or the theater. This is an issue where lives and our way of life are in the balance. if we do not. We may have to face that to do our duty, we have to risk it. It takes little imagination to see Trump and his people letting the pandemic spiral out of control as a way to stifle the vote. We cannot let them.

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