Why we believed William Barr

[struggle4progress]

By Molly Roberts
Editorial Writer
May 2 at 2:35 PM

Why did anybody ever trust William P. Barr?

The revelation that President Trump’s attorney general is exactly what President Trump always wanted in an attorney general appears to have rocked Washington. Barr has ruined his reputation, commentators are crying. He’s acting like the commander in chief’s defense counsel, not the country’s lawyer. It’s disgraceful. It’s embarrassing ...

The inexplicably stubborn illusion only faded, finally, after an appalling “news” conference, followed by the long-awaited publication of 400-some pages that contradicted the core of what Barr had been telling the country for weeks, followed by the revelation that Barr had misled legislators about Mueller’s discontent ...

... People wanted to believe Barr because they wanted to believe something a lot bigger than him: that President Trump is the rot in our house — not that he has only pulled back the floorboards.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/02/why-we-believed-william-barr/?utm_term=.467cb12018a1

[malaise]

1. I never believed him

From March 24 more than a few of us pointed out that Mueller did not exonerate the vile MAGAcretin. Looks like the Con finally knows that we know - the spin did not last.

[struggle4progress]

10. +

[Thekaspervote]

13. Me either

[Chin music]

2. PLUS

We all pay for the DOJ to act as his little legal hit squad.
Defund the DOJ until they come to their senses.
PS...trumps not entitled to have every prosecutor/ G Man, be a repub. That's not how America works. The military already inculcates every tom dick and harriet as repubs, that's not what 2/3s of America pays for. And when a Dem family parts w one of their kids for a term of service, they don't do so so they'll come back a spitting republican. Not how it works. Even if he bloviates about the 18 "Angry Dems" everyday or not.

[tazkcmo]

3. I served 5 years

Not once did anybody even discuss politics wth me much less try to convert me to the dark side.

[Chin music]

4. Thanks for doing that.

That hasnt been my experience. Glad you made it out ok.

[2naSalit]

5. Who's this "we"?

I never believed that fucker, I saw what he did last time they let him into the government. He's worse than invoking Beetlejuice and not putting him back.

[malaise]

14. Hehehehhehe

[2naSalit]

16. I just had to say

....something snitty.

[CatMor]

6. I never believe anyone ....

who would willingly work for or with trump.

[ismnotwasm]

7. Who is "we"

He was full of shit

[Solly Mack]

8. Snort. What utter bullshit. "We" my ass.

"...inexplicably stubborn illusion...


People wanted to believe Barr because they wanted to believe something a lot bigger than him: that President Trump is the rot in our house — not that he has only pulled back the floorboards. "

Denial? Delusional? Complicit in a false narrative?

Please. No one with a clear memory trusted Barr. No one with the inability to claim shit smells like roses believed Barr. No one who saw conservatives for exactly what they are believed Barr. No one who refuses to accept a shared narrative of feel-good bullshit trusted Barr.

[shanny]

9. exactly: tRump isn't the problem,

he's just the all-too-obvious manifestation of it.

[GoCubsGo]

11. Who is "we"?

Anybody who watched him cover up Iran-Contra the way a cat buries its turds in a litter box, never trusted this POS.

[struggle4progress]

12. It's a motley mix, I think, comprised in part of amoral ideologues and opportunists

who will say they believe (whether they do or not), in part of low-attention-span nitwits who can't bear to learn anything that contradicts their own preconceptions, in part careful players who always (at first ) profess faith in the goodness of everyone but are later "Shocked! Shocked!" to find gambling occurs, and in part various other sectors -- such as the cynics who said "Of course I trust Barr!" with perhaps only the slightest trace of cold acid in their voices to clue-in the cognoscenti

[WeekiWater]

15. I never believed Barr.

I refused to take part in the initial hyperventilation.