This is all corruption because Trump's administration does not have control. They sought to control through the corruption of the USA's relationship with Ukraine. Guiliani is at the center of this lawless activity. Guiliani was also doing Russia's bidding. Guiliani wanted to make Ukraine weaker so both Trump and Russia had control and they could exploit that control to defeat Vice President Biden in the November elections.
Trump first tried to demoralize the office to understand the power they had over their activity. Trump wanted to impose a corruption paradigm in SDNY and when all that didn't work, he simply told Barr to get rid of the prosecutors.
June 22, 2020
Adam Klasfeld
When Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman (click here) pushed back against Attorney General Bill Barr’s attempt to oust him late on Friday night, the standoff between a top prosecutor and the Trump administration had a startling sense of déjà vu.
Three years apart, two Manhattan U.S. attorneys refused requests from Washington to quietly step down from their posts in extraordinary flare-ups of rebellion. Both involved whispers of political interference with cases of interest to the president. Both resulted in the prosecutors being fired, and both men wound up replaced by their trusted deputies.
Berman’s crusading predecessor Preet Bharara had lived through this sequence of events in 2017.
Jaimie Nawaday, a former federal prosecutor who witnessed Bharara’s firing, remembers what happened vividly.
“I was in the office when Preet was fired, and that was a very demoralizing, disheartening moment,” Nawaday recalled in a phone interview on Sunday. “And [Berman’s ouster] seemed even worse because of the way it went down.”...
