QOTD: Bill Barr
by digby
I think one of the ironies today is that people are saying that it’s President Trump that’s shredding our institutions. I really see no evidence of that, it is hard, and I really haven’t seen bill of particulars as to how that’s being done.
From my perspective the idea of resisting a democratically elected president and basically throwing everything at him and you know, really changing the norms on the grounds that we have to stop this president, that is where the shredding of our norms and our institutions is occurring.
The fact that this “democratically elected president” was “democratically elected” in an election in which that president welcomed a foreign government interfering to sabotage his rival’s campaign in order to help him win and then did everything he could to obstruct an investigation into what happened doesn’t seem to enter into his calculation.
There are a number of ways in which Barr made it clear that he is living in a Fox News bubble.
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The reason the Attorney General doesn't know basic facts about what happened in the last 4 years is bc he has been wallowing in Fox News. If your outlet is less shoddy than Fox News, you have a real incentive to point out what Fox News does to people's brain.— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 31, 2019
Reminder: While Flynn was getting half a million dollars that secretly came from the govt of Turkey to push Trump to be nicer to Turkey, he was getting Top Secret briefings.
But Bill Barr doesn't think that was worth investigating.
¯_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/cEUuNQgZU9— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 31, 2019
This same fellow answered THREE TIMES in his confirmation hearing that floating pardons for false testimony would be a crime. https://t.co/DmhjBcybAH— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 31, 2019
To see the full contradiction between:
1. What Barr told @CBSNews: "We didn’t agree with…a lot of the legal analysis in the Report…So we applied what we thought was the right law."
vs.
2. What Barr told Congress in written testimony on May 1, 2019.
Here's the testimony👇 pic.twitter.com/tKS5hX1bQX— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) May 31, 2019
Given the Attorney General's complete lack of awareness of the bias of some FBI Agents investigating (and the predication based on oppo research of) the Clinton Foundation investigation, it's really imperative that someone like @jerrynadler ask IG Horowitz to investigate it.— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 31, 2019
If you want to see how truly disingenuous Barr has been, read this one at Emptywheel.
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