Picking off the prosecutors one at a time
by digby
This doesn’t surprise me but it’s really worrying that we are accepting this stuff as business as usual now:
Marc Kasowitz, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer in the Russia investigation, has boasted to friends and colleagues that he played a central role in the firing of Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, according to four people familiar with the conversations.
Kasowitz told Trump, “This guy is going to get you,” according to a person familiar with Kasowitz’s account.
Those who know Kasowitz say he is sometimes prone to exaggerating when regaling them with his exploits. But if true, his assertion adds to the mystery surrounding the motive and timing of Bharara’s firing.
New presidents typically ask U.S. attorneys to resign and have the power to fire them. But Trump asked Bharara to stay in his job when they met in November at Trump Tower, as Bharara announced after the meeting.
In early March, Trump reversed himself. He asked all the remaining U.S. attorneys to resign, including Bharara. Bharara, a telegenic prosecutor with a history of taking on powerful politicians, refused and was fired March 11.
As ProPublica previously reported, at the time of Bharara’s firing the Southern District was conducting an investigation into Trump’s secretary of health and human services, Tom Price.
Trump Tower and the Trump Organization was also in his jurisdiction.
The possibility of him firing Mueller is quite high, don’t kid yourself. He obviously feels he can more easily ride out the dismissal of prosecutors than whatever they are investigating. And he has a lot of help from unpatriotic Republicans who don’t care that they have a cretinous criminal in the White House as long as they get their tax cuts.
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