; (2) endeavoring to shield President Trump from criminal charges for campaign finance violations by having the Department of Justice write a memorandum designed to undercut the legal rationale for Michael Cohen’s prosecution and subsequent prosecutions in the case, knowing President Trump, identified as Individual 1 in the Government’s complaint, directed Cohen’s actions and therefore may also be criminally liable; (3) corruptly pressuring acting United States Attorney Timothy Shea, and in so doing career prosecutors in the United States Attorney’s Office, to reduce the recommended sentence for President Trump’s friend and campaign advisor Roger Stone and cut Stone a break because of political concerns ; (4) creating a culture of intimidation within the Department of Justice designed to provide preferential treatment to the friends and associates of President Trump such that a career prosecutor testified to the House of Representatives that if Roger Stone was not provided special treatment, the prosecutor would loose [his] job ; (5) overruling the career prosecutors in the Department of Justice and instructing United States Attorney Timothy Shea to move to dismiss the false-statements charges against Michael Flynn, former Donald Trump campaign advisor and White House National Security Advisor, even after Flynn had pleaded guilty, based on a distortion of the record; (6) decontextualizing the words of acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Mary B. McCord, in an effort to mislead the Court and the American public about the legality and process of the investigation into Flynn’s contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak; and (7) removing without cause acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, who was overseeing several investigations into the friends and associates of President Trump, including— (A) the President’s 2016 inaugural committee; (B) President Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen; (C) President Trump’s attorney Rudolph Giuliani