Barr admits he took the AG job because Trump was being 'hurt'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

William Barr tried to claim he took the job of attorney general to protect the office of the presidency — but in the process, he also admitted his goal was to protect Trump.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Barr said: "I felt the rules were being changed to hurt Trump, and I thought it was damaging for the presidency over the long haul."

The rules haven't changed, but the norms have — and they've been changed to favor Trump. He's engaged in widespread obstruction and corruption that makes Nixon look tame, but has suffered no consequences because Republicans in Congress are willing to enable his behavior.

Barr, in giving his reason for taking the job, likely thought he sounded noble rather than entirely partisan. Indeed, it is true that he resisted Trump's initial requests to take the job. And he's long been an advocate for the "unitary executive" theory — the idea that the president's power should be nearly unlimited.

To hear Barr tell it, he's reluctantly taken the position so he can defend the power of the executive, not the power of Trump.

But he's aligned himself directly with Trump, not the office of the president, from the very start.

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[Lithos]

1. So he admits failing to do his primary role of serving the people

And not politics...

L-

[Iliyah]

2. What about the

American people being hurt by shithole?

[tanyev]

3. He must not have read Rick Wilson's book, Everything Trump Touches Dies.

He’ll be sorry.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. That's a very interesting comment he made.

"I felt the rules were being changed to hurt Trump, and I thought it was damaging for the presidency over the long haul."

That's EXACTLY what happened during the Clinton impeachment trial and what our Dem leaders are doing today is NOTHING like that.

During the Clinton era, every imaginable protocol, every known norm of conventional wisdom was cast aside for the sake of getting Clinton. That was when I saw that the Republicans were no longer the party of conservatism, because they were no longer following traditional values or process.