Barr Wants to Hide Trump's Authoritarian Plans, But Trump Keeps Confessing

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The smooth and congenial relationship between President Trump and William Barr went through a brief patch of turbulence last night, when Barr complained openly that Trump’s highly public tweets about criminal cases make it “impossible to do my job.” Barr is deeply committed to a Trumpian program of using his powers to protect Trump’s allies and harass Trump’s adversaries, but he also understands that the process requires a sheen of public legitimacy. He needs to maintain the façade that every discrete decision made on Trump’s behalf was made on its merits. Even despots like Vladimir Putin pretend the justice system is working independently, and not just leaving his friends alone and prosecuting people he wants to punish.

Last night, the White House gave official word that Trump had no issues with Barr’s comment. All seemed well again in despotville.

But then this morning, Trump felt the itch to clear something up. Trump maintains the right to ask Barr to prosecute, or not prosecute, anybody for any reason. He hasn’t done it, he says, but he could:

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Obviously, if the president can direct anybody to be prosecuted or not, there is no rule of law. If there is no rule of law, there is no meaningful democracy

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/barr-wants-to-hide-trump-s-authoritarian-plans-but-trump-keeps-confessing/ar-BB100t5x?ocid=msn360

[TDale313]

1. Yeah, the comment about

Trump making it impossible for him to do his job? That was “quit telling everyone!!!”

[SWBTATTReg]

2. So, if no crime committed, etc., one could be subject to this whole mess, of being accused of...

no crime, etc., harassed, thrown into jail, go through an expensive trial to be found innocent, and then you can't sue the DOJ (they have sovereign immunity, also known as governmental immunity). I don't know if this would be the case if mischief occurred in the filings of these types of lawsuits (filed just to harass, no standing what-so-ever in fact).

Perhaps this will open up a can of worms, in that if rump can't be sued because he's president (now), and then he opens the whole thing up himself (directing the DOJ to filing against others) for personal reasons and no other valid legitimate reason), his immunity to lawsuits disappears since he's abused that privilege.

This is what I have read into this process.