Trump Fires Adamant New York Attorney Berman At Barr’s Prompting
June 21, 2020
6:01 am
President Donald Trump has fired by directly Geoffrey Berman, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan whose office is investigating Trump’s attorney Rudolph Giuliani.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr revealed this on Saturday after Berman publicly refused to step down from his post.
In a letter to Berman, Barr said he was “surprised and quite disappointed” by Berman’s statement late on Friday night in which he refused to quit his job, saying Berman had chosen “public spectacle over public service.”
“I have asked the President to remove you as of today, and …
