Attorney General William Barr is loyally carrying out President Donald Trump’s pet project, leaning hard into the President’s tweeted screams to “investigate the investigators” who he believes launched the Russia probe to undermine his candidacy.
In a clip of an interview with Fox News, Barr said he was probing if “government officials abused their power and put their thumb on the scale.”
“I’ve been trying to get answers to the questions and I’ve found that a lot of the answers have been inadequate and some of the explanations I’ve gotten don’t hang together, in a sense I have more questions today than when I first started,” he added.
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Barr has been signaling his willingness to go Trump’s way on this for a while, first calling intelligence agencies’ investigation into whether Russia was using Trump’s campaign to interfere in the elections “spying” during an appearance before the Senate Appropriations Committee in April.
"I’ve been trying to get answers to the questions and I’ve found that a lot of the answers have been inadequate and some of the explanations I’ve gotten don’t hang together, in a sense I have more questions today than when I first started,”
That’s what happens when you investigate something that has never existed.
Barr is loudly serving notice to the FBI that they better look the other way on all things Trump, and those too dense to interpret the signals will have their careers go down in flames.
Who brought the scale he’s using? Even metaphorically he’s demonstrated he doesn’t understand the limits of the executive and he certainly can’t find the boundary between Trump and the office he is occupying but does not own.
If you aren’t a rat when you go to work for Rump (and Barr was eager to show that he was a particularly large and ugly rat) you’ll be a rat when you leave. Sorry for insulting rats.
How are you feeling Freddie Flintstone??? A whole career and now you cap it with demeaning the government you pretended to serve…shtting on history, lying about process…all for the glory of Donald J. Trump…the biggest conman of them all. I’d be sad for you if I didn’t want to kick you in the ballz…