Attorney general nominee William Barr on Tuesday described the day he met President Donald Trump in “the middle of June,” in 2017, at the request of the U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Freeman. Trump, Barr said, wanted to know about his connections to Robert Mueller, who’d been appointed as special counsel the month prior.
Trump, Barr said, “wanted to know what I thought about Mueller’s integrity, and so forth and so on.”
Barr on meeting Trump in June 2017: He "wanted to know what I thought about Mueller's integrity, and so forth and so on." pic.twitter.com/FrlBtZgK21
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) January 15, 2019
Something does not smell right here.
He’s saying what he has to say to have a relatively smooth confirmation process. But it’s at odds with things he’s said before. And it’s very hard to believe Trump simply asked, in the dispassionate way Barr implied, what he thought of Mueller. Trump hates and fears Mueller more than anything in this world. I don’t believe the exchange as described.
Barr - “…and so forth and so on.”
The new ‘I don’t recall’.
The actual question was “Is he a dirty cop that Putin can buy off?”…
It’s the swamp now that it is completely backed up…