One of the chief criminals in the Trump Administration is the former Attorney General William Barr.

In Geoffrey Berman's new book, Holding the Line: Inside the Nat...le with the Trump Justice Department, the book details how Bill Barr corrupted the Department of Justice on behalf of Donald Trump. Barr’s coverups for Trump range from criminal activity to treason, Berman writes.

Geoffrey Steven Berman is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2018 to 2020.

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"Throughout my tenure as US attorney, Trump's Justice Department kept demanding that I use my office to aid them politically, and I kept declining - in ways just tactful enough to keep me from being fired. I walked this tightrope for two and a half years. Eventually, the rope snapped."
- Geoffrey Berman

On June 19, 2020, Attorney General William Barr announced in a press release that Berman was "stepping down" effective July 3 and that Jay Clayton, the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, would be nominated as his replacement.[ Hours later, Berman stated that he had not resigned and would not resign until "a presidentially appointed nominee is confirmed by the Senate."

Barr's tenure as Trump's Attorney General of the United States is not Barr's first corruption rodeo.

During in the late '80s and early '90s and again during the late 2010's, Barr served as the 77th and 85th United States attorney general in the administrations of Presidents George H. W. Bush and Donald J. Trump, respectively.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, it was alleged that Donald J. Trump's campaign sought and took assistance from Russia to help him win the 2016 election. Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate these allegations.

Mueller found 10 prosecutable incidents of Donald Trump committing felony obstruction of justice, all to cover up the assistance he was seeking and receiving from Russian oligarchs and the Russian government that ultimately helped him win the 2016 election.

As USAG for the Trump Administration, Bill Barr "summarized" the findings of the Mueller Report for the American public's digestion. In doing so, Barr lied to the American people, to Congress, and to federal judges, with lies inconsistent with evidence of record in the Mueller Report.

Barr did this to avoid prosecuting Trump, who we can now see had clearly committed crimes, particularly reaching out to a foreign power for help, that would’ve landed any other American in prison for decades.

The corruption of law enforcement and the courts is a cardinal characteristic of fascism, which is what Trump and - it turns out, Barr - were actively trying to do to America.

Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Barr buried evidence of then-President George H.W. Bush’s involvement in Irangate and Iran-Contra.

G. H. W. Bush's administration was accused of selling weapons of mass destruction to Saddam Hussein, also at that time, AG Barr was already covering up for Bush, Weinberger, and others from the Reagan administration Iran-Contra - where the Reagan administration was accused of reaching out to the Iran government during the 1980s election to release Americans held captive by Iran.

Bill Barr suggested to G. H. W. Bush that Bush pardon all of the players in the Iraqgate and Iran-Contra and that's exactly what Bush did after losing the election to Bill Clinton in November 1992.

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History shows that when a Republican president is in serious legal trouble, Bill Barr is their go-to guy.