PROSECUTOR, WHOSE OFFICE WAS
HANDLING CASES PERTAINING TO THE
PRESIDENT.
TONIGHT, IT’S THE EASTERN
DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.
NOW, IF YOU ARE THE PRESIDENT
AND YOU AND YOUR CAMPAIGN AND
YOUR INAUGURAL COMMITTEE AND
YOUR DONORS AND YOUR LAWYERS AND
YOUR CAMPAIGN STAFF AND YOUR
LONGTIME FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES
KEEP FINDING THEMSELVES ACCUSED
OF FELONIES OR AT LEAST TARGETED
OR INVOLVED IN SERIOUS CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATIONS.
THEN, IF YOU ARE THE PRESIDENT,
THE FEDERAL PROSECUTORS YOU
PROBABLY MOST HAVE TO WORRY
ABOUT ARE THREE.
NUMBER ONE, THE U.S. ATTORNEY IN
WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHERE THE NATION’S CAPITAL IS,
WHERE LOTS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
STUFF GETS HANDLED.
SECOND, NEW YORK.
EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT A PRESIDENT
FROM NEW YORK, WHOSE BUSINESS IS
HEADQUARTERED IN NEW YORK, LIKE
THIS ONE.
IF YOU AND YOUR MARCHING ORDER
AS PRESIDENT OFTEN FIND
YOURSELVES ADJACENT TO CRIMINAL,
FINANCIAL MATTERS.
WELL, THE FAMOUS PROSECUTOR’S
OFFICE IN NEW YORK TENDS TO TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF THE FACT THAT NEW
YORK IS THE FINANCIAL CAPITAL OF
THE WORLD.
AND SO, MOST CRIMES THAT INVOLVE
MINE, AKA MOST CRIMES,
SOMETIMES, CAN, SOMEHOW, FIND
THEIR WAY INTO NEW YORK’S
FEDERAL JURISDICTION.
AND THAT APPLIES, IN THE FIRST
INSTANCE, TO THE PROSECUTORS OFFICE IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT
OFFICE IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT
OF NEW YORK IN MANHATTAN BUT THE
EASTERN DISTRICT GETS ITS BEAK
WET LIKE THAT, TOO.
IF YOU ARE A CRIMINALLY ADJACENT
PRESIDENT, THOSE ARE THE THREE
FEDERAL PROSECUTORS’ OFFICES YOU
MOST HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT.
WELL, OVER JUST THE LAST FEW
MONTHS, THE PRESIDENT’S ATTORNEY
GENERAL, WILLIAM BARR, HAS
SYSTEM
SYSTEMATICALLY DECAPITATED ALL
THREE OF THOSE OFFICES.
HE OFFERED THE U.S. ATTORNEY
THERE A SORT OF LATERAL MOVE,
PSEUDOPROMOTION
PSEUDO PROMOTION ELSEWHERE IN
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
THEN, WHILE THAT WAS PENDING, HE
INSTALLED ALL HIS OWN GUYS IN
HER OFFICE TO TAKE OVER AND BIG
FOOT ALL THE SENSITIVE CASES AND
INVESTIGATIONS THERE THAT
TOUCHED ON THE PRESIDENT’S
INTEREST.
ONCE HE HAD INSTALLED THOSE
PUPPIES IN THAT OFFICE TO DO HIS
WORK, HE THEN YANKED THE OFFERED
NEW JOB TO THAT U.S. ATTORNEY.
YANKED THE JOB FOR WHICH SHE HAD
BEEN SORT OF -- THAT HAD BEEN
SORT OF DANGLED TO HER TO ENTICE
HER TO LEAVE THAT POST.
THEY YANKED THAT JOB OFFER, GOT
HER OUT OF THERE ANYWAY, AND
FORMALLY INSTALLED BARR’S OWN
GUYS.
THEREBY, THE U.S. ATTORNEY’S
OFFICE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. WAS
EFFECTIVELY NEUTRALIZED.
THE PREMIERE PUBLIC PROSECUTION
EXPERTS IN THE UNITED STATES, BY
WILLIAM BARR WHO HAS NOT BEEN
SHY AT ALL ABOUT BENDING THE
ENFORCEMENT OF AMERICAN LAW TO
BENEFIT THE PRESIDENT AND PUNISH
HIS ENEMIES.
ANY -- ANY THREAT TO THE
PRESIDENT OR HIS INTERESTS FROM
THE U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE AND
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HAS
BEEN OVER FOR MONTHS NOW.
AND, YOU KNOW, EVEN IN THE CASES
THAT ALREADY HAD GONE THROUGH
THERE, LIKE THE MIKE FLYNN CASE,
FOR EXAMPLE.
WELL, ONCE BARR HAD HIS GUYS
INSERTED INTO THAT OFFICE, THEY
TRIED TO RETRO ACTIVELYACTIVELY
FLYNN CASE, EVEN AFTER HIS
GUILTY PLEAS.
THAT’S STILL WINDING ITS WAY
THROUGH THE LEGAL SYSTEM.
SO THAT WAS FIRST.
D.C. U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE.
THEN, IT WAS SDNY, WHICH IS
REPORTEDLY INVESTIGATING THINGS
LIKE THE SLUSH FUND,
SUPERSKETCHY TRUMP INAUGURAL
COMMITTEE, WHICH IS ALSO ABOUT
TO PUT RUDY GIULIANI’S GUYS, LEV
AND IGOR ON TRIAL.
WHICH WAS BUSY NOT LONG AGO
SENDING OUT SUBPOENAS BY THE
BOATLOAD ABOUT GIULIANI’S OWN
FINANCIAL TRAIL.
WELL, LATE ON A FRIDAY NIGHT,
SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, ATTORNEY
GENERAL WILLIAM BARR TRIED TO
FORCE THE U.S. ATTORNEY TO
RESIGN.
BARR ANNOUNCED TO THE PUBLIC
THAT HE WAS STUFFING ONE OF HIS
OWN GUYS INTO THAT OFFICE.
INSTEAD, THE U.S. ATTORNEY
THERE, GEOFFREY BERMAN, SAID,
NO, I AM NOT RESIGNING.
YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO FORCE ME OUT IF YOU WANT ME OUT.
ME OUT IF YOU WANT ME OUT.
AND BY THE WAY, YOU’RE LYING TO
THE PUBLIC ABOUT WHAT IS GOING
ON HERE AND I’M NOT LETTING YOU
GET AWAY WITH IT.
IT DIDN’T SUCCEED IN KEEPING
BERMAN IN HIS JOB.
THEY STILL FORCED HIM OUT.
BUT IT DID SUCCEED IN KEEPING
BILL BARR FROM INSTALLING HIS
OWN PUPPY DOG THERE, THE WAY HE
DID IN D.C.
WHAT GEOFF BERMAN’S BRAVERY AND
PUSHBACK DID IN SDNY IS THAT IT,
AT LEAST, ENSURED THAT BERMAN’S
OWN DEPUTY GOT TO TAKE OVER AT
THAT OFFICE TO ENSURE SOME
CONTINUITY.
STILL, THOUGH, GEOFF BERMAN’S
OUT.
SO D.C. U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE.
GONE.
GEOFF BERMAN AND SDNY.
GONE.
NOW, TONIGHT, IT’S THE OTHER
ONE.
THE LAST ONE.
THE OTHER U.S. ATTORNEY IN THE
EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.
NOW, WITH THIS GUY, ATTORNEY
GENERAL BILL BARR TRIED THE SAME
TRICK THAT HE TRIED WITH THE
OTHER TWO.
IN ALL THREE OF THESE CASES,
HE’S OFFERED THESE U.S.
ATTORNEYS SOME SORT OF DUBIOUS
MAYBE, POSSIBLE
PROMOTION/LATERAL MOVE.
AT LEAST, HE’S OFFERED SOME
OTHER JOB IN THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION AS A SORT OF
ENTICEMENT IF THEY WOULD JUST
GIVE UP THE U.S. ATTORNEY’S
OFFICE AND LET BARR TAKE OVER
THOSE OFFICES, FOR HIMSELF.
WELL, IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF
NEW YORK, THE U.S. ATTORNEY
THERE, RICH DONAHUE, DECIDED HE
WOULD ACCEPT THE DUBIOUS JOB
OFFER FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
THE NOT-QUITE PROMOTION, RATHER
THAN STAND UP FOR HIMSELF AND
HIS OFFICE.
THIS WOULD BE NO BIG DEAL.
NO CAUSE FOR CONCERN HERE, LIKE
THERE WAS SO MUCH CONCERN
EXPRESSED OVER THE OTHER U.S.
ATTORNEY’S OFFICES.
BILL BARR INITIALLY ANNOUNCED
THAT IN EDNY, WHILE DONAHUE
WOULD BE LEAVING, HIS OFFICE
WOULD BE TAKING OVER AS YOU ARE
SUPPOSED TO DO IN THE COURSE OF
EVENTS.
BUT INSTEAD, HE HAS ANNOUNCED HE
IS INSTALLING HIS OWN GUY JUST
LIKE HE DID IN D.C.
JUST LIKE HE TRIED TO DO IN
SDNY.
HIS OWN HANDPICKED FOOTMAN WILL
BE TAKING OVER THE EASTERN
DISTRICT OF NEW YORK’S FEDERAL
PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE.
JUST MONTHS BEFORE THE ELECTION.
IN THE MIDDLE OF, AMONG OTHER
THINGS, INVESTIGATION INTO THE
PRESIDENT’S INAUGURAL COMMITTEE
AND ITS ALLEGED SHENANIGANS.
SO, YEAH, IF IT’S FRIDAY NIGHT,
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IS
ADVANCING, IN WHAT REALLY DOES
APPEAR TO BE A QUITE SYSTEMATIC
PLAN, TO END THE INDEPENDENCE OF
FEDERAL PROSECUTORS’ OFFICES,
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
AT LEAST THE OFFICES KNOWN TO BE
INVESTIGATING THINGS RELATED TO
THE PRESIDENT AND HIS INTERESTS.
I MEAN, IF -- IF YOU ARE THIS
PRESIDENT, THERE ARE REALLY
THREE PROSECUTORS OFFICES YOU
HAD TO WORRY ABOUT.
D.C., SDNY, EDNY.
NOW, IN SHORT ORDER, BILL BARR
HAS DECAPITATED THEM ALL.
WE HOPE YOU HAVE ENJOYED THIS
EXPERIMENT IN BEING A
RULE-OF-LAW COUNTRY.
BUT WE’VE, APPARENTLY, DECIDED
THAT THE EXPERIMENT IS OVER.
IT’S NOT FOR US.
SO NOW, WE’LL TRY WHAT EVER THIS
IS, INSTEAD, THAT WE’RE LIVING
THROUGH.
I’LL, ALSO, JUST SAY, KEEP IN
MIND THAT THIS IS THE SAME
ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO HAS ORDERED
THE OPENING OF FEDERAL CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS AND LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND
INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS, WHO WERE
INVOLVED IN INVESTIGATING RUSSIA
HELPING PRESIDENT TRUMP IN THE
LAST ELECTION.
IT SORT OF SLIPPED OUR MIND
BECAUSE THE WAY OUR COUNTRY’S
FALLEN INTO CATASTROPHE SINCE HE
DID IT BUT BILL BARR HAS ORDERED
PROBES INTO OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
OFFICIALS, INTELLIGENCE
OFFICIALS, WHO WERE INVOLVED IN
INVESTIGATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT.
WHEN DO YOU THINK HE’S GOING TO