It's funny that *this* is the Madman's takeaway on the Barr story.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Not "funny ha-ha" mind you, but still....funny.

Link to tweet

Donald J. Trump?Verified account @realDonaldTrump · 2h2 hours ago

Bill Barr did not decline my request to talk about Ukraine. The story was a Fake Washington Post con job with an “anonymous” source that doesn’t exist. Just read the Transcript. The Justice Department already ruled that the call was good. We don’t have freedom of the press!

4:28 AM - 7 Nov 2019

So he doesn't deny that he views Barr as his little personal pet attorney as opposed to the chief attorney for the US Government, and claims he believes Barr already has cleared him and doesn't need to repeat his prior dog-and-pony show where he claimed to characterize the Mueller report before it was released.

In other words, Trump using Barr for his own purposes is A-Okay in his book.

Also, the last line, "We don't have freedom of the press!" could either be viewed as a complaint or a threat. I think the Madman probably would prefer it be the latter.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. If we had real freedom of the press...

then no one would say anything bad about Commander Bedbug. He is perfect so anything bad about him must be the result of a conspiracy to control the media against him. complete nutjob.

[nature-lover]

2. What's with the, "Just read the transcript"? We have and it proves that you are guilty!

I guess he thinks that folks won't actually read and understand it. We owe an enormous debt to the press for diligently probing and reporting all of the chaos he has created.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. DJ "ruled" his phone call was good?

Which ruler issued this edict? Barr or Trump?

[Hugin]

4. Yeah, to my knowledge the DoJ doesn't "rule" on anything.

Man, the Crockwork Orange really believes the DoJ is his private Judicial/Legislative/Executive organ... Doesn't he? Even though it largely is since Low Barr took over there are still some vestiges of it's role as the Constitution's lawyer still showing.