Was Barr/Trump action last night against Berman a Hail Mary Pass, another distraction, a fit of

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3. When Trump has a bad week..

They do stuff to make him happy. They undo anything they can find done by or even just agreed with by PBO, without much regard to what it even is at this point. They schedule a rally: he must be going nuts that he had to wait so long. They try to fuck over someone who is an enemy in his mind. Remember that nearly the first thing that Berman did upon arrival at SDNY was to recuse himself from the Michael Cohen investigation. Oops.

There are likely other reasons, but I suspect that this is part of it. I'm kind of amazed that they ignored that position for so long.