This fatuous gasbag thinks he can get away with this “you can believe me or you can believe your lying eyes” nonsense? I guess so. After all, he got away with his slippery answer to Kamala Harris when she asked him if anyone in the White House had told him to investigate Trump’s political enemies.
He didn’t stop there:
Fergawdsakes..
This is Barr pushing “The Ferguson Effect” the idea that cops will not do their jobs if they are forced to be accountable for not doing their jobs.
This is an old right wing trope. They used it back when we were trying to get the CIA tp stop torturing people. “They won’ protect America if they have to stop torturing people” apparently because their feelingswould be hurt or something.
Barr is really invested in this narrative and it’s resulted in him failing to do anything on a federal level to stop police abuse and, in fact, encourage it. He’s a menace .
The following is almost certainly another one of his deliberately shady comments. He was on the record back in 1992 wanting Bush to send in troops to the LA Riots although he was happy to round up a bunch of desk jockeys and prison guards from various departments and send them out in to the streets.