During an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Monday, Berman, who was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, told host Rachel Maddow that his department was working on several cases, including one involving former White House chief strategist Steve. Bannon in the months leading up to the election. Reading from a forthcoming book by Berman called “Holding the Line,” Maddow asked the former federal prosecutor to address the idea that Barr “no doubt believed that by removing me he could eliminate a threat to Trump’s re-election.” . “How was your job as US attorney a threat to Trump’s re-election?” Mandow asked. “Well, at the time I was fired, the Southern District of New York was working on two politically sensitive cases. One of those cases is Steve Bannon’s ‘we’re building the wall’ case, and we were very close to charging that case at the time I was fired and Barr knew about the case,” Berman told Maddow. Once Bannon was impeached by Berman’s successor, Trump pardoned Bannon, which Berman called “outrageous.” He also noted that his office was also investigating Lev Parnes and Igor Fruman, two Trump allies who were eventually convicted on campaign finance charges involving a Russian tycoon funneling money to US political campaigns. Minnesota Timberwolves say ‘disappointed’ by Anthony Edwards Cheney’s anti-gay comments: Trump’s reported insistence that he will remain in White House ‘confirms the reality of the danger’ Earlier Monday, Berman told ABC’s “Good Morning America” ​​that the Trump administration’s Justice Department pressured him to indict former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig before the midterm elections and prosecute former Secretary of State John Kerry . Trump fired Berman in 2020 after he refused to resign his position. “I’ve never seen anything like this before, and I was a junior district attorney in the Southern District in the early ’90s and I had never seen anything like this,” Berman told GMA co-anchor George Stephanopoulos. “People who have been in the office for 40 years have never seen anything like this. It was unprecedented and terrifying.”