Ex-U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara jabs Trump with crowd size joke at first public appearance since f

[riversedge]

Source: raw story




David Ferguson
09 Apr 2017 at 21:42 ET



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Mediaite.com said that Bharara was delivering a speech at the Cooper Union on Thursday when he made a joke about Trump’s neurotic fixation on the puny size of the crowd at his inauguration.

“From where I’m standing, looks to be about one to 1.5 million people,” Bharara said, looking out at the audience. “I don’t care what the picture shows. My crowd is much bigger than Obama’s crowd.”
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..................................He slammed the administration’s “helter-skelter incompetence” and the chaos in the White House leading up to his removal — particularly given that Trump has assured him days before that his position was safe.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/ex-u-s-attorney-preet-bharara-jabs-trump-with-crowd-size-joke-at-first-public-appearance-since-firing/

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Link to tweet

[Hekate]

1. I hope we hear a lot more from Mr Bharara in the coming years nt

[Tactical Peek]

2. Here's a link to this speech at c-span.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?425717-1/preet-bharara-remarks-cooper-union


It is good. Very good.

[tclambert]

3. I'm starting to really like this guy.

I'd like to see him as special prosecutor investigating the Trump administration.

[Control-Z]

4. That was my first thought after reading the OP.

Wouldn't that be poetic justice? I'm afraid he'd recuse himself, though. The man appears to have far too much integrity.

[nikibatts]

5. Can we get Preet to move to a state where he could run for Senator over a GOP held seat?