Barr letter to Berman asserts that he & Berman had been in discussions about promotion to another job, SEC chair maybe.

But of course Berman would have remembered that Barr & Trump played this same trick before. 1/x
To clear out the inconvenient US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jessie Liu, Trump offered a promotion to a big job at Treasury. Once Liu resigned, the promotion was yanked away - on grounds that Liu was insufficiently loyal to Trump. 2/x
I wrote today that the trick played on Liu by Barr and Trump can be used only so often before the targets get wise. Barr tried it one time more than that. END https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/trumps-3-point-plan-to-win-in-2020/613318/
Trump’s 3-Point Plan to Win in 2020

He will attack the independence and integrity of the legal system, try to benefit from foreign help, and benefit from voting obstacles.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/trumps-3-point-plan-to-win-in-2020/613318/
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