Barr to Berman: "Trump has just fired you." - Trump in press-conference: "No, I didn't."

[DetlefK]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/20/1954668/-BREAKING-Trump-Personally-Fires-SDNY-District-Attorney?utm_campaign=trending

H/T to Doctor Who: Bunker Boy is holding a presser right now at which he denied telling Barr to fire Berman:
@stevenportnoy

"That's all up to the Attorney General," Trump said, distancing himself from the decision to fire SDNY USA Berman."That's all [Barr's] department, not my department.""I'm not involved," Trump said, minutes after Barr said Trump *ordered* Berman's removal.
1:10 PM · Jun 20, 2020·TweetDeck

Someone mentioned on Twitter or so, that Barr's letter declaring that Trump has fired Berman does not have Trump's signature: There is no written evidence that Trump has fired Berman.

Link to tweet

[leftieNanner]

1. Geez!

When Mom calls you into the kitchen, you gotta keep your lies straight.

SMDH

[sheshe2]

9. ;)

Lawd, those two are both shooting blanks.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. The gang that couldn't shoot straight.

Trump: Fire Berman.
Barr: Yes, master.
Barr: Berman, you're fired.
Berman: No, I'm not. You can't fire me.
Barr: Trump told me to fire you.
Trump: No, I didn't.
Berman: See, I told you I wasn't fired.
Barr: Yes, you are.
Berman: No, I'm not.
Trump: I had nothing to do with it.
Barr: You told me to do it.
Trump: No, I didn't.
Berman: So I'll get right back to those investigations now...

[Jirel]

5. This!

You hit that nail so hard on the head!

[Leghorn21]

7. YES!!

GO TEAM BERMAN!! No time to lose!!

[grumpyduck]

8. Who's on first?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. The whole incident does have a bit of an Abbot & Costello vibe.

[Cha]

20. Rofl!

[leftieNanner]

12. I'm hoping that this little 24 hour CF

Means that Berman is getting close to dropping some tasty little indictments soon.

Barr and The Orange One must be getting nervous.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. Berman just now agreed to step down,

but His Lardship might not be all that excited about his successor. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/acting-new-york-us-attorney-once-defeated-roy-cohn-investigated-iran-contra/2020/06/20/82378274-b332-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html

[grumpyduck]

22. Too bad he agred to step down, BUT

once he's no longer in office, the WH can't refuse to let him testify to Congress.

[Budi]

18. K & R for a million LOL's

Honest to god this is some damn FUBAR!!

They need a taller bus.

We just want to salvage this country.
What an effin mess.

[struggle4progress]

3. "i'ver been too busy tweeting to follow the news"

[James48]

4. He's really not responsible

For ANYTHING.

“I don’t take responsibility”!

Lol.

Well, if the President didn’t fire him, I guess there is no question that he still works there.

[Budi]

19. Yup. No one knows what that was all about. Back to business as usual everyone.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Cha]

21. RetweetedX2! TY, Budi! I smell the popcorn is ready!

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Budi]

23. IKR! 😄 Twitter's already mocking the heck outta this latest Trump/Barr dust up.

I think wednesday is when SDNY drops a bomb on Trump WH bs.
Explains why they went into sudden death obstruction frenzy with Berman.

And waiting in the wings after Berman drops the hammer, is the bad-ass Letiticia James, AG of NY to handel the Trump family's NY criminality.

Ya think they are coordinating their next moves? 😉

[Blue Owl]

6. These Branch Covidiots can't keep their shit straight

n/t

[Budi]

11. WTHell is going on. " Tump just took a big dump on Barr"

Link to tweet

[Budi]

13. Berman called their bluff yesterday.

Not going anywhere till one of you 2 goons fess up to Obstruction.

Sorry Rudy! Can't save your ass either..

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Nope, he just agreed to step down, Barr having agreed to appoint

this person to succeed him. Maybe that was the deal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/acting-new-york-us-attorney-once-defeated-roy-cohn-investigated-iran-contra/2020/06/20/82378274-b332-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html

[tavernier]

15. What cracks me up is that Trump thinks that he has departments.

In his mind executive departments are things kind of like junk drawers. Put stuff in take stuff out doesn’t really matter. No one in his administration knows what they are for anyway.

[mercuryblues]

17. Is Barr leading a

wait for it
.
.

.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
..
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.

.
shadow government?