Let's take a look at what has transpired in rather rapid fashion in the last couple weeks and try to figure out the potential why.
You will recall on Friday June 19th, Bill Barr suddenly made what seemed both a panicked and completely false announcement that Geoffrey Berman had "resigned" his post as head of the SDNY. What quickly followed was Berman saying this...
“I have not resigned, and have no intention of resigning. Our investigations will move forward without delay or interruption.”
Which shows Barr lied, clumsily and stupidly, and was caught red handed doing so. Why? A fight followed and Barr then announced that Trump had ordered Berman fired. Trump responded he had not done this, again making Barr look like he lied again and was in the midst of some frantic attempt to get rid of Berman.
Barr has yet to provide any reason for this. Then the media pressed to discover if Trump had played a part in Berman's firing, to which White House officials indicated Trump "signed off on it" seeming to say Barr asked the president to fire him and Trump agreed. Part of this is likely because SDNY had more than one investigation ongoing that involved Trump, his family, and his associates including Rudy and it is always a bad look if you fire the guy leading investigations into your criminal behavior.
However, what big arrest was about to occur with SDNY prosecuting? Oh yes, Ghislaine Maxwell. Surely as AG, and guy determined to kill off any look into Donald J. Trump, Bill Barr was aware an arrest was pending and so what does he do? He attempts to panic fire Berman and replace him with one of his stooges.
Berman outsmarts Barr though, puts up a fight, and gets his second in command promoted to his job in his agreement to step down. Sure enough a week or so later...they arrest and charge Ghislaine Maxwell, just sitting in a million dollar mansion in New Hampshire. Pretty sure they knew where she was for some time and that arrest was planned well in advance.
Did Barr see this coming and was that was why he attempted to panic fire Berman?
It sure seems as if Barr was notified the FBI was going to make the arrest and went nuts and tried to oust Berman, move his guy in and block the arrest from happening.
It also sure seems Berman was sending a very strong message when he said:
"Our investigations will move forward without delay or interruption."
