TOTAL WITCH HUNT!
Trump Thought He’d Picked His Perfect U.S. Attorney in Geoffrey Berman. He Was Very Wrong.
For the Michael Cohen raid, Rosenstein, filling in for Sessions, gave the go-ahead to Khuzami, filling in for Berman. All four are Republicans.
MICHAEL DALY
04.11.18 5:08 AM ET
President Trump must have figured Geoffrey Berman would make the perfect prosecutor.
Like Trump, Berman is the son of a real estate developer.
Like Trump, Berman graduated from Wharton School.
Like Trump, Berman once owned a New Jersey sports franchise, in his case a minor league hockey team in Trenton, the Titans.
Berman was a Republican and a managing shareholder at the law firm of Greenberg Traurig, home to Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s blindest supporters.
Berman had even donated $5,400 to Trump’s campaign in 2016.
So, after interviewing him in person,
Trump decided Berman was just the one to become the new interim United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
That being the venue that covers Trump Tower and the rest of Manhattan, so the one venue other than Washington, D.C. where Trump was most likely to face legal jeopardy.
And the Trumpian wisdom of the nod seemed affirmed by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s characterization of it.
“Deeply disturbing considering the conflicts of interest inherent by his potential jurisdiction on matters that could affect the president personally,” she said the Berman appointment.
But what did this seemingly perfect prosecutor do when the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office got a referral from Special Counsel Robert Mueller concerning Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen?
Did Berman wink?
Did he stall?
Did he go on the attack in the way of Trump’s mentor, the deceased, but never departed Roy Cohn?
No, this guy Berman immediately went and recused himself like some Yankee version of Attorney General Jeff Session.
How was Trump supposed to know that Berman has actual principles?
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