Bill and Rudy had separate jobs in the Ukraine plot, but they were working toward the same goal.
You’ll recall that Bill Barr has said that he was out of the loop on Trump’s Ukraine adventure. It’s always been suspicious that the DOJ just dismissed the whistleblower complaint of course. And when Barr appeared in Trump’s Zelensky call transcript in the same breath as Rudy Giuliani, people wondered why. (He denied knowing anything about it.) Trump wanted him to hold a press conference and tell the public he did nothing wrong but he didn’t do it.
Lev Parnas said Barr was “on the team” and we already knew that he was. After all, he’s been pushing to discredit the Mueller Report with his “investigation of the investigation” and leaving open Trump’s daft idea that the Ukrainians may have “framed” Trump and the Russian government in the 2016 election interference. Parnas says he believed he was in on the Biden smear as well.
And now we have this:
Attorney General William Barr briefly attended a meeting at the Justice Department last fall between top criminal prosecutors and President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, a department official said Friday.The meeting reveals a previously undisclosed interaction between two men the President depends on to defend him.
I’m just putting his here.
Barr is said to be leery of Giuliani and reportedly told Trump to dump him. (Trump can’t do that, of course, since Rudy has “insurance.”) But they have been working toward the same goals.
Barr took the task of discrediting the Mueller investigation with his Durham probe. Rudy went after Biden. Whether or not they actively plotted together they are most definitely on the same team.