If there is any singular characteristic of Trumpistan it is the rank incompetence. Take the Supreme Court's DACA ruling. Roberts' ruling wasn't that DACA was "good law" but that the Trumpists simply screwed up the method they used to try and get rid of it.
We now have another example of Trump's stupidity and incompetence undermining his efforts to be authoritarian and cruel. Last night, Trump's consigliere, Bob Barr, tried to fire the US Attorney for Manhattan. He announced it as a "resignation" to which Geoffrey Berman immediately fired back in a legalese version of "the fuck I am." There seems to be strong ground for Berman to resist Barr's efforts to get rid of him. Barr said "resigned" because he can't fire Berman. Berman knows this and basically told the Attorney General to pound sand.
Knowing what we know about Trumpistan, two things are probably at play. The recent rulings by the SCOTUS - especially Gorsuch's textualist reading of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - would suggest that the Court is going to compel the release of Trump's tax returns and financial records. This has always been Trump's biggest fear. Since Berman's office is one of the bodies investigating Trump's finances, Barr made a transparent attempt to at least delegitimize Berman, even if he couldn't fire him. Barr was as much trying to please Trump's raging id as he was actually trying to remove Berman.
So, the Trumpists know that Berman is close to something damaging and they really don't have much that they can do about it. If the House also gets his financial records, then Trump can play the "politics" card against them. But the USAG for Manhattan is different...unless you pull this stunt.
The House should move swiftly to impeach Barr anyway. This is grade A bullshit.
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