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September 14, 2022 Heather Cox Richardson Sep 15   It appears that John Durham’s investigation into why the FBI opened an investigation into the ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russian operatives is coming to an end. Durham’s investigation was a prime example of Trump’s attempt to use the Department of Justice not to enforce the nation’s laws, but to hurt his enemies, a charge former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman has made in his new book. Trump, Berman said, wanted his friends protected and his enemies—including former secretaries of state John Kerry and Hillary Clinton—prosecuted. In April 2019, the month after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s  Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election  finally saw daylight, Attorney General William Barr tapped United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John Durham to investigate the circumstances under which the FBI began to look int...

  SUBSCRIBE TO THIS NEWSLETTER: Trump Administration Prosecutor Charges in New Book that Justice Department Was Corrupted by Trump and Attorney General William Barr By  Pam Martens and Russ Martens : September 13, 2022 ~ Geoffrey Berman, Former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Two new nonfiction books are being released today. Bestselling author and anthropologist Sarah Kendzior’s book,  They Knew , describes Donald Trump as a “transnational career criminal.” The book from the former top federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York under the Trump Justice Department, Geoffrey Berman, a Republican, reinforces Kendzior’s thesis with the revelation that Trump’s Justice Department was weaponized “to aid the President’s friends and punish his enemies,” both foreign and domestic. One of the most outrageous demands from the Justice Department, writes Berman, was “pressure to pursue baseless criminal charges against John Kerry, who had served in the ...