@earl-of-trumps said
Don't you think it at all strange that this firing of Berman came out of nowhere?
And then everyone asks the same question, "why", and nobody even has
a clue, and Trump says nothing. Barr says nothing. Everything is hush hush.
Even the democrats didn't have a cogent response or even a suspicion to
throw out there, so as to slap Trump. Nudda.
What the BLEEP! T ...[text shortened]... t straws. But hot damn, I don't know what else it could be. Maybe Trump is being blackmailed. dunno.
It came right after excerpts from Bolton's book were published. One of those had Trump promising Turkish Premier Erdogan that the investigation in a Turkish company would be "handled" but it turns out Berman had indicted them. It seems very possible to me that Barr and/or Trump flew into a rage about this becoming public and fired Berman in a hissy fit.
The Maxwell arrest kinda kills the whole idea that Berman was fired to squelch the Epstein investigation, doesn't it?
EDIT: Here's the details:
"The book paints a picture in which Erdoğan’s frequent calls with Trump were very effective in getting the U.S. president to do what Ankara wants, though he also failed on several fronts – including on extraditing the Islamist cleric Fethullah Gülen, who Erdoğan blames for masterminding the failed coup attempt of 2016, and on getting the U.S. authorities drop charges against Turkey’s state-run Halkbank, which was indicted of involvement in a complex scheme to circumvent sanctions on Iran between 2011 and 2016.
On page 191 of his book, Bolton said that, during a meeting between Erdoğan and Trump in Argentina on Dec 1, 2018, the U.S. president promised to try to help his Turkish counterpart with the Halkbank case:
“Erdoğan provided a memo by the law firm representing Halkbank, which Trump did nothing more than flip through before declaring he believed Halkbank was totally innocent of violating U.S. Iran sanctions. Trump asked whether we could reach Acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker, which I sidestepped. Trump then told Erdoğan he would take care of things, explaining that the Southern District prosecutors were not his people, but were Obama people, a problem that would be fixed when they were replaced by his people.”
https://ahvalnews.com/bolton-exclusives/bolton-exclusives-1-what-does-boltons-book-say-about-turkey
Halbank was indicted on October 15, 2019 by Berman's SDNY: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/turkish-bank-charged-manhattan-federal-court-its-participation-multibillion-dollar-iranian#:~:text=The%20Department%20of%20Justice%20announced,evade%20U.S.%20sanctions%20on%20Iran.