Trump attorney general Barr a liar, bully and thug, says fired US attorney in book
by Martin Pengelly in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#63CRA)
In memoir, Geoffrey Berman recounts clashes before a botched firing he insists was politically motivated
Donald Trump's second attorney general, William Barr, is stupid, a liar, a bully and a thug, according to a hard-hitting new book by Geoffrey Berman, the US attorney for the southern district of New York whose firing Barr engineered in hugely controversial fashion in summer 2020.
Several hours after Barr and I met," Berman writes, on a Friday night, [Barr] issued a press release saying that I was stepping down. That was a lie.
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