I'm going to say it, and you can place yourself where you want on this

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53. I watched Andrew Weissmann last night too

and he was trying to, knowing he is an employee of the outlet pushing the narrative, to be a realist knowing that the AG is NOT micromanaging what is going on in 93 U.S. Attorney offices. I also saw Katyal on 2 shows (where he was an alumni of that office), who was taken aback by the insinuations.

The illegal actions involving Stormy Daniels were going on while Preet was U.S. Attorney of SDNY and he was subsequently fired by then-AG Jeff Sessions (who DU has amnesia about), when he didn't go along with 45's shake downs.

He was succeeded by several people including Joon Kim (who was "acting" and had to leave the position due to the 300-day restriction for actings pending a confirmed appointee), and Geoff Berman, who was eventually fired. He was the one who wrote a book about what was going on.

Trump Pushed Officials to Prosecute His Critics, Ex-U.S. Attorney Says


By Benjamin Weiser
Sept. 8, 2022


A book by a former top federal prosecutor offers new details about how the Justice Department under President Donald J. Trump sought to use the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan to support Mr. Trump politically and pursue his critics — even pushing the office to open a criminal investigation of former secretary of state John Kerry.

The prosecutor, Geoffrey S. Berman, was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York for two and a half years until June 2020, when Mr. Trump fired him after he refused a request to resign by Attorney General William P. Barr, who sought to replace him with an administration ally. A copy of Mr. Berman’s book, “Holding the Line,” was obtained by The New York Times before its scheduled publication Tuesday.

The book paints a picture of Justice Department officials motivated by partisan concerns in pursuing investigations or blocking them; in weighing how forthright to be in court filings; and in shopping investigations to other prosecutors’ offices when the Southern District declined to act.

The book contains accounts of how department officials tried to have allusions to Mr. Trump scrubbed from charging papers for Michael D. Cohen, his former personal lawyer, and how the attorney general later tried to have his conviction reversed. It tells of pressure to pursue Mr. Kerry, who had angered Mr. Trump by attempting to preserve the nuclear deal he had negotiated with Iran.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/nyregion/geoffrey-berman-trump-book.html

During this time, the Manhattan D.A. was Cyrus Vance, Jr. and all kinds of messes ensued - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-01/u-s-to-join-fight-over-manhattan-da-s-subpoena-for-trump-taxes

ALL of this WAS and STILL IS "local NY politics" and leftovers from 45's Jeff Sessions/Bill Barr DOJ and is irrelevant to Garland.