After dodging the question during his confirmation hearings, Attorney General William Barr is now confirming that he will not recuse himself from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, despite the document he wrote criticizing it.
According to a Monday Politico report, a Department of Justice spokeswoman said that he had chosen not to recuse on the advice of “senior career ethics officials.”
For now, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is still directly overseeing Mueller’s investigation. If he leaves later this month, as expected, he’ll clear the way for Trump’s next pick: Deputy Transportation Secretary Jeffrey Rosen.
Is there anyone in this Administration who does not desire an authoritarian coup?
The Kims of North Korea would applaud…
John Goodman will play him in the movie. Or Fred Flintstone will.
Barr is a partisan, but he’s no Whitaker. I doubt he’ll fall on his sword to protect Trump.
Really? I thought Goodman would pack back on 100 kg and play Trump.
I’d be more worried if Barr interferes with SDNY. And now with the House Judiciary Committee’s list of who they wan to see documents from, all documents that have been previously turned over to Mueller or SDNY then the info will get out there.
On the other hand the battle maybe heating up to indict a sitting President. How does Barr look at attaining the Presidency by hook and crook?