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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. from Holding the LineThe
gripping and explosive memoir of serving as US Attorney for the Southern
District of New York, in the face of the Justice Department 8217 s attempts to
protect Trump 8217 s friends and punish his enemies.Ascending to the
leadership role of US Attorney for the Southern District, which includes
Manhattan and several counties to the north, is a capstone to any legal career:
it entails guiding a team of the best lawyers in America in selecting and
winning cases that often have global import. Geoffrey Berman was honored to
be tapped for the job by Donald Trump in 2018. The manner in which Trump
had dispatched his predecessor Preet Bharara was troubling, but the
institution was fabled for its independence. Surely he could manage.So began
one of the most tumultuous two-and-a-half-year stretches in the over twohundred-thirty
year history of the office. Almost immediately, Berman found
himself pushing back against the Trump Justice Department 8217 s blatant
efforts to bring weak cases against political foes and squash worthy cases that
threatened to tarnish allies and Trump himself. When Bill Barr became
attorney general, Berman hoped and believed things would get better, but
instead they got much worse. The heart of Holding the Line is his neverbefore-told
account of the lengths Barr went to in corrupting the independence
of the office, and the lengths Berman had to go in preserving it. Finally, Trump
and Barr, fed up with Berman 8217 s principles, summarily fired him, though
he refused to go quietly and prevented Barr from installing someone who
might be more compliant. Berman 8217 s determined defense of the values of
prosecutorial independence, without fear or favor, made him a hero to
everyone who shares those values.Holding the Line also relates the
remarkable casework of the Southern District in Berman 8217 s time there,
including taking down notorious sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Lawrence
Ray, Big Pharma executives, and vicious criminal syndicates, and repatriating
Nazi-looted art. Riveting in themselves, these stories showcase the esprit de
corps that makes the Southern District so special, and the stakes Berman felt

in protecting its integrity against all foes, up to and including the US attorney
general and the president of the United States.