and instead, installing his own people. that u.s. attorney's office in dc then immediately moved to drop the charges and undue the guilty plea from trump national security adviser mike flynn. they moved the recommended sentence from roger stone who had been convicted of multiple felonies. they also folded to the pressure to bring charges against obama's white house counsel. that case was so palpablely weak, the jury voted to acquit in less than five hours. that very rarely happens to federal prosecutors but it happened there because there was no case. because trump insisted that the prosecution be brought forward. one u.s. attorney's office looked into it and said are you kidding? there's nothing here. the other one went ahead and did it. because that's what trump demanded. even though there was no case. jeffrey berman saw what had happened in the dc u.s.