Preet Bharara considered taping Trump because ‘the man lies’ by Isikoff
Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said he discussed with his deputy secretly taping President Trump during the tumultuous early months of the administration when many people in the U.S. government “really thought that you had an unhinged president.”
There was, Bharara added in an interview for the Yahoo News podcast, Skullduggery, “a state of tension” and a “state of shock that was pervasive thoughout the government at the time.” Bharara said he believes that deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein was thinking along the same lines – and “wasn’t joking” — when he too also briefly considered taping Trump in the days after the firing of Comey. And he doesn’t accept the argument that Trump, being new to Washington, didn’t understand the longstanding tradition that the White House shouldn’t interfere in or seek to influence Justice Department investigations.
“Look, there's a theme that runs through all people's meetings with the president…Whether they're allies, like Michael Cohen or Omarosa [Manigault] or others, or they're people who you're supposed to have some arm's length distance from, and they all want to document the phone calls. Either by recording them, thinking about recording them, memorialize them right away,” he said.“Look, this is not a partisan statement. The man lies.
“We could demand that our prosecutors explain at length their decision to walk away, especially when the smell of smoke is strong in public nostrils, so citizens can be satisfied about the rectitude of those decisions,” Bharara wrote in “Doing Justice.” “But prosecutors can get into deep trouble, if they talk too much about a decision not to prosecute…After all, the subject has a right to fairness also, to be free from prosecutorial slander.
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