DOJ pressured prosecutors to bring cases against Trump enemies, ex-US attorney says

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Geoffrey Berman, who served 2 1/2 years as United States attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2018 to 2020, said the Justice Department pressured him and his office to pursue criminal cases against perceived enemies of former President Donald Trump, including former Secretary of State John Kerry.

"I had never seen anything like that before," Berman told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in his first interview about his new book, "Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and its Battle with the Trump Justice Department." "People who had been in the office for 40 years never saw anything like that. It was unprecedented and scary."

Berman described a tenure under Attorney Generals Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr and acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker rife with politics and constant interference, pressuring him to remove references to Individual-1, aka Donald Trump, in the case against Michael Cohen, the president's former lawyer.

"On the eve of Cohen's guilty plea, main Justice tried to get our office to remove any reference to Individual-1, who was President Trump. They were unsuccessful in that venture. And they were unsuccessful in every attempt to politically interfere with our office. We held the line in every instance," Berman told ABC's "Good Morning America."

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Channeling Nixon.

[Walleye]

1. Yep just listen to them accuse us of weaponizing the DOJ. absolute proof that they're doing it

[DFW]

2. An "enemies list," i.e Nixon on Steroids

And in Nixon's day, the extremist right hadn't yet figured out that if they didn't like what the media was reporting, just buy the media. They have figured it out in the meantime, and are attacking on all fronts.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Another reason to charge djt for dereliction of duty ... to go out there and actively press

the DOJ to go after his 'enemies' and such.

Just when did this huge mistake of a human being ever do his job as Commander in Chief and / or President? He was concentrating so much on retaliation, on retaining his illegal hold on the Executive Branch, not upholding the rule of law except when it suited him, etc. Just how many laws did he break? And NO, he, because he was president, is NOT allowed to break the law as it suits him.

Scumbag. For every person he's tried to throw under the bus via his DOJ lapdogs, djt must pay at least a million bucks to each of his victims he tried to sic the DOJ onto. Then, as is the case now, sic the DOJ instead onto him. This is a special irony all by itself.

[Midnight Writer]

4. Channeling G W Bush as well. Karl Rove used the same playbook of pressuring US Attorneys to

investigate and prosecute Democrats in State elections.