President Trump on Saturday personally fired

the United States Attorney in Manhattan, Geoffrey S. Berman,

who tested positive for disloyalty.

Symptoms included  arrest and prosecution

in 2018 of Michael D. Cohen and

Inquiry into Rudolph W. Giuliani,

Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer.

Notifying Congress of his decision to fire

Michael Atkinson on April 3,

Mr. Trump told the Senate Intelligence Committee

He no longer had the “fullest confidence”

In Atkinson’s test for integrity anti-bodies.

Atkinson handled the complaint filed

By an anonymous whistleblower

About Mr. Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.

Mr. Trump’s announcement of a

Health and Human Services inspector general

Came after  [Christie] Grimm exposed the public to a report

Detailing “severe” shortages of testing supplies,

“widespread shortages of PPE,”

The president called the report highly communicable.

Mr. Pompeo said he wished he had

sought to innoculate earlier  against

the State Department’s

inspector general, Steve A. Linick

for inquiries into his potential

misuse of government resources.

The White House reported the truth pandemic

Had been successfully contained.

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