The Senate Judiciary Committee is opening another investigation into former President Donald Trump’s behavior while in office.
The latest investigation stems from allegations posed by a former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York that Trump’s Justice Department attempted to influence the Manhattan attorney’s office to prosecute his critics and protect his allies.
Geoffrey Berman’s allegations against Trump are recounted in his upcoming book, which Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin cited in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for the investigation. Berman served for two years under Trump and had previously volunteered on his 2016 campaign and White House transition team.
The Hill reports:
“These reported claims indicate astonishing and unacceptable deviations from the Department’s mission to pursue impartial justice, which requires that its prosecutorial decisions be free from political influence,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) wrote in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Berman alleges Trump appointees pressured the Manhattan office to go after Trump’s critics and to shield Trump and his allies but that he himself resisted those same efforts.
Durbin noted that Berman “contends that Department officials pressured his office to remove references to President Trump from the charging document for Michael Cohen, his personal lawyer, as well as later attempts by Attorney General Barr himself to reverse Mr. Cohen’s conviction and stop related investigations entirely.”
The allegations “compound the already serious concerns” about Barr’s 2020 efforts “to replace Mr. Berman with a Trump loyalist,” Durbin wrote.
Durbin, in the letter to Garland, requested a number of documents and communications between the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
Berman also recently claimed on ABC’s “Good Morning America” the Trump-era DOJ pressured him to indict former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig before the midterm elections and prosecute former Secretary of State John Kerry.
“I’ve never seen anything like that before, and I was a junior prosecutor in the Southern District in the early 90s and I’d never seen anything like that,” Berman told host George Stephanopoulos.
“People who have been in the office for 40 years never saw anything like that. It was unprecedented and scary,” Berman added.
Trump fired Berman in 2020 after he refused to resign.
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More lies, rigged evidence
Totally when are just going to stop these idiots from harassing PRESIDENT Trump any further.
It’s pathetically sick and ridiculous!
The investigators are all guilty of treason!!
Such Bull Sh!!T !! You just keep trying to get Trump on anything you can !! He will WIN !! No matter what you do !! It’s all lies and they cheated in the election !! They know it and we all know it !!
The REAL LAW needs to go in and drag these weasels out by the hair, try them for treason and then put them before a firing squad, the Constitution calls for it!
B S continues
So, let me get this straight, the Senate is investigating Trump for what he may have done as President, all the while ignoring what Biden is currently doing as President today.
What they are investigatingTrump for, is exactly what everyone sees Biden doing today; Using the Department of Justice to attack Trump while shielding both Hunter and Joe Biden.
Once again, The Dems do the crime, and point the finger at Trump.
This is DISGUSTING!
It’s how these evil demented devils work!
They are going to REAP WHAT THEY SOW!!
Only a matter of time!
Time is running out for America. How Dems can poll above 5% is unbelievable.
Once again, “Rules for Radicals” is employed. Always accuse your opponents of doing the nefarious deeds you are doing to them.
How long can quid pro joe get away with committing crimes with impunity while blaming other innocent people for the same crimes?
This is just more desperation “investigating” on the demoRATS part. They are so afraid that he will get back into office and stop their money laundering scheme they will do anything to discredit him. How pathetic.
Even if a fraction of this is true, it is not dwarfed by the machinations of Bathhouse Barry Building Deep State Better…and of Chao Bai Deng the Manchurian Candidate colluding with Chairman Xi???
When are they going to leave this poor man alone??? Investigation after investigation. I am sick of this.!! Biden is a crime family and they have proof, but nothing is investigated. I would not vote Democrat for ANY reason! Wake up people.
!!!!!Do you idiots up there in Congress ever think about doing the work you were elected to do instead of wasting our time & tax payer money for one investigation after another in hopes of slamming Trump to the ground or worse ______WHAT A PATHETIC BUNCH OF NUMNUTS YOU PEOPLE ARE !!!!! WE ARE FED UP TO OUR EYEBALLS WITH ALL YOUR SCHEMING !!!!!
Something doesn’t smell right. I just can’t see Attorney General Barr doing anything like this guy is accusing him of. Barr has displayed an overall disdain for Trump. I can maybe see Trump making these requests but in no way can I believe that Barr followed through!!
That’s OK. Our Senate will kill the investigation and replace it with Hunter/Joe profiting from their connections as well as the Biden DOJ. What’s good for the goose…
“Impartial Justice”?
Just incredible! Hey MERRICK, KARMA’S a B*YOTCH! And SHE’S got YOU in her sights!! You’d better watch your 6 bc WE’RE COMING FOR YOU!
Dick (appropriate name) Durbin is one of the most lying, two faced members of Congress so it’s no wonder he would be leading another useless one sided investigation. In reality he is the one who should be investigated for all the corruption he has been involved in for years.
You people will never give up and it is so obvious what you’re doing, and it is getting so old. You’ll are the problem and the corruption. It all goes back to the Democrats and their deep pocket associates trying to get Trump out of the picture.