When FBI agents raided the office of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, they upended all of national politics.
Who is that attorney and why does it matter? He is Geoffrey Berman, and Trump can easily dust him under the rug as retribution.
Berman, you see, holds his job on an interim basis, and is especially vulnerable, thanks to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. That junior Democratic senator from New York has blockaded Berman's nomination, through the so-called "Blue-slip" process, over concerns about his independence from Trump.
As a result, Berman has been serving in the post on an interim basis beginning Jan. 5.
Thanks to Gillibrand's baseless obstructionism, Trump wouldn't even have to fire Berman to get rid of him.
If Cohen was as dirty as Mueller worried, and if there is the long-sought after evidence of collusion, obstruction, or alien life forms, then it would be against Trump's interest to let Berman oversee that investigation.
Last January during the confirmation debate, Mary Jo White, the former top Southern District prosecutor, who Berman served under during the Clinton administration, said Berman had "Independence and integrity." That didn't matter to Gillibrand as much as #resisting the president did.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/thanks-to-kirsten-gillibrand-the-us-attorney-behind-the-michael-cohen-raid-is-especially-vulnerable
Who is that attorney and why does it matter? He is Geoffrey Berman, and Trump can easily dust him under the rug as retribution.
Berman, you see, holds his job on an interim basis, and is especially vulnerable, thanks to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. That junior Democratic senator from New York has blockaded Berman's nomination, through the so-called "Blue-slip" process, over concerns about his independence from Trump.
As a result, Berman has been serving in the post on an interim basis beginning Jan. 5.
Thanks to Gillibrand's baseless obstructionism, Trump wouldn't even have to fire Berman to get rid of him.
If Cohen was as dirty as Mueller worried, and if there is the long-sought after evidence of collusion, obstruction, or alien life forms, then it would be against Trump's interest to let Berman oversee that investigation.
Last January during the confirmation debate, Mary Jo White, the former top Southern District prosecutor, who Berman served under during the Clinton administration, said Berman had "Independence and integrity." That didn't matter to Gillibrand as much as #resisting the president did.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/thanks-to-kirsten-gillibrand-the-us-attorney-behind-the-michael-cohen-raid-is-especially-vulnerable
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