SCOOP: ABC News has learned Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the SD of NY is recused

[oberliner]

SCOOP: ABC News has learned Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is recused from the Michael Cohen investigation. He had no role in raid of Cohen's office.

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That seems pretty significant.

[manor321]

1. Woah

This is gonna make Trumpy so angry! HA HA!

[NCTraveler]

2. People with a shred of integrity really piss Trump off. nt.

[Snotcicles]

3. Good to see there are still some that have ethical standards. nt

[RandySF]

4. Trump is slowly learning

That he cannot use DOJ as his personal fixers.

[NightWatcher]

5. What's the point of putting people at Justice if they can't fix investigations into your crimes?

I'm so glad trump doesn't have a dog. He'd be punting that pooch down the hallways all day long.

He's miserable and I'm loving it

[Gothmog]

6. Prof. Tribe speculated that there was a recusal

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[former9thward]

7. Why is this significant?

There are recusals all the time because of personal or professional relationships. I don't see the point.

[RandomAccess]

9. Because Trump wants people NOT to recuse so they can help HIM

[former9thward]

13. How do you know this guy was going to "help him"?

[boston bean]

17. We dont know. But that isnt the right question. Trumpass thinks he would have.

[RandomAccess]

18. I don't. Why would you think I do?

HOWEVER, for Trump, recusal absolutely means he's not going to help him, doesn't it? Just like that total disappointment of an AG, Jeff Sessions, who recused himself and didn't tell Trump in advance so Trump could find a more personally loyal person to appoint to the job -- someone who would save him from Mueller.

[former9thward]

21. Well, I think you are reading too much into it.

When someone recuses themselves the case is generally taken over by someone subordinate to the person recusing. So maybe that person will "help" knowing his boss would like to see that result.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

22. You are completely missing the point.

Trump thinks recusals by people he appointed are disloyal And a missed opportunity for one of his appointees to fix things for him.

He’s been whining about it since day one regarding Jeff sessions. He was just whining about it again yesterday.

Of course there’s always the chance the next person down the totem pole can put their thumb on the scale. It sure doesn’t look like that’s what’s going on. Because raiding an attorney’s office is about the most serious thing they can do besides
Indicting/arresting someone.

[Kaleva]

10. Probably because it'd piss Trump off bigly

Sessions recusal lead to Mueller rather then Sessions squashing the investigation or making it very narrow. Trump may have expected Berman to not allow a raid on his lawyer.

[crazylikafox]

8. Is this the attorney Trump personally interviewed for the job?

Guilliani's guy?

[shraby]

11. Yup

[avebury]

12. Yup!

Trump: "Will no one rid me of these pesky investigators?" The are so mean to me.

[Nevernose]

14. He still hasnt passed Senate confirmation

If hebpisses off Republicans by being involved with “getting” Trump, he can’t get confirmed. If he can’t get confirmed, he’ll be in a much weaker position to help the GOP crime organization.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

23. Has he been officially nominated?

I have to think the mango Mussolini is not going to look kindly on the recusal.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. "If I had a wartime consigliere, a Sicilian, I wouldn't be in this shape!" nt

[oberliner]

19. That outburst gets Sonny killed

More or less.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

20. From your keyboard to dog's ears. nt

[bigtree]

16. it's only important if you view these prosecutors as politicized

...as the pols who put them there.

Most of these folks care primarily about the law, not politics. And for the folks out there who want to make hay about who's responsible for the raids, look no further than the judge who approved the search warrants.

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