WaPo: Barr has told those close to Trump he is considering quitting if the president keeps tweeting

[StarfishSaver]

Attorney General William P. Barr has told people close to President Trump — both inside and outside the White House — that he is considering quitting over Trump’s tweets about Justice Department investigations, three administration officials said, foreshadowing a possible confrontation between the president and his attorney general over the independence of the Justice Department.

So far, Trump has defied Barr’s requests, both public and private, to keep quiet on matters of federal law enforcement. It was not immediately clear Tuesday if Barr had made his posture known directly to Trump. The administration officials said Barr seemed to be sharing his position with advisers in hopes the president would get the message that he should stop weighing in publicly on the Justice Department’s ongoing criminal investigations.

“He has his limits,” said one person familiar with Barr’s thinking, speaking on the condition of anonymity, like others, to discuss internal deliberations.

Suuuure ...

[stopbush]

1. I don't believe that for a second.

[Goodheart]

2. Such bullshit.

[Xipe Totec]

5. +1 nt

[Jarqui]

33. +1

Barr can't quit. Like Trump, he'd be risking winding up in prison.

He's going to continue to do Trump's bidding trying to save his own skin.

[Skittles]

3. LOLOLOLOLOL

yes.....Barr has just NOW figured out that our "president" is a TWEETING FUCKING FOOL

[badhair77]

4. It's a ruse and distraction. I don't believe it.

All they know are lies.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Do or do not.... Yoda

But please stop with these pathetic whiny press "leaks".

[Kablooie]

7. Even if Barr left, Trump would put in an even more toadying flunky as replacement.

Maybe Giuliani.

This won't change unless Trump is run out of town on a rail .

[doc03]

13. Since Trump said he is the top law enforcement officer in the USA couldn't he

just leave the job unfilled and do it himself? Who can stop him?

[klook]

32. Jared can handle it.

He’s only got, what? Four jobs in the White House? I lost track.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

45. Lindsay Graham might want the job.

Then he wouldn't be just one of 100 senators -- he'd be the Big Kahuna of the entire Justice Department. Think of all the lives he could fuck up then!

[doc03]

8. Bullshit!!!!!!!!

[matt819]

9. Bull

This is pure theater.

[The Blue Flower]

10. Maybe he could just start doing his job

If he doesn't like what il drumpf is doing, he can stand up to him and risk getting fired.

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. Yeah, right.

I'm not holding my breath.

[hatrack]

12. BlahblahblahblahblahblahBLAH

We don't believe you, and your kabuki production values suck.

[spooky3]

14. I WILL TURN THE CAR AROUND THIS INSTANT! OK. nt

[dchill]

15. Independence my ass.

Pardon my French. Independence from the Constitution, maybe.

[scarletwoman]

16. Just another head fake. (nt)

[milestogo]

17. yeah, right

[hurple]

18. I believe it

Because the orange shitgibbon keeps blabbing all about all the things barr is trying to do in secret.

Imagine the things we wouldn't know if trump could keep quiet...

[pnwest]

31. Exactly this.

[herding cats]

19. Sure he is...

It's all a part of their game to try and make him look genuinely unbiased, rather than completely in the tank for Trump.

They're playing an optics game for the intentionally blind.

[GoCubsGo]

20. I'll believe it when I see it.

We all know damn well Il Douche will never stop tweeting. Not holding my breath that Barr is going to quit.

[UTUSN]

21. K&R

[mahina]

22. Because *the tweets* are too much to bear.

The rest of it, no problem, Mr Barr, you miserable sack of horse waste?

[JHB]

23. I'll believe that when it happens, and not before

He may prefer Trump cut the tweeting, but he won't let that keep him out of a position that can let conservative wet dreams happen.

[dalton99a]

26. Yep.

[NanceGreggs]

24. It's very possible ...

... that Barr means it - not because he's being hindered from doing his job, but because what he IS doing is being broadcast to the nation via Trump's tweets.

There are some Republicans who are smart enough to read the writing on the wall, and know that they'll be out of a job next January when Trump is gone. Some of them are also smart enough to realize that the incoming Democratic president and his administration will be gunning for the corrupt criminals who enabled the Dotard's actions and broke the law in doing so.

Barr knows that there will be investigations into his behaviour as AG, and he doesn't want to be caught up in the scrutiny such investigations will entail.

His only possible salvation is to get out now, and later claim that he resigned when he "finally realized" that what Trump was doing was "potentially illegal", and his conscience wouldn't allow him to continue in his position.

It's becoming the only way out for these people - "I was out of the loop, had no knowledge of what was really going on - but once I realized it, I quit."

[Phoenix61]

36. This! Because he is and always will be a

self-serving POS.

[Mme. Defarge]

38. Thank you!

My desperately optimistic take on this - far less nuanced than yours - is that Trump’s defiant and out of control Tweeting gives him cover to resign, ostensibly, for that reason rather than the fact that he’s lost the confidence of so many current and former Justice Department employees.

[NanceGreggs]

40. Exactly so.

I believe we'll be seeing more of this in the coming months, as it becomes more ad more obvious that Trump won't be re-elected:

"I had NO idea what was going on - and the minute I realized it, as a patriotic American who believes in the rule of law, I got out of there as soon as I could."

It will be bullshit, of course, amounting to: "I didn't realize that robbing a bank was illegal until I heard the police sirens. That's when I dropped the money and ran away."

[Mme. Defarge]

42. Whatever it f'ing takes!

I will breathe so much easier if and when he’s gone.

[calimary]

46. You're assuming Barr even has a conscience, Nance.

I think those who had a conscience found it had dissolved like sugar in hot water when they signed up with trump.

As former GOPer Rick Wilson said in the title of his book: “everything trump touches dies.” Barr won’t emerge from this unscathed. None of ‘em will. They’re marked for life.

[NanceGreggs]

48. I didn't say he has a conscience.

I'm saying that's what he'll say if he resigns.

[struggle4progress]

25. "When it gets too hot around here, I'll need a ready excuse for running towards the exit!"

[mzmolly]

27. Riiiiiiiiiight.

[meadowlander]

28. Whatever excuse you want to use, Bill.

I hope the door hits your fat fascist ass on the way out.

[Marie Marie]

29. IF any part of this is true (and that is a BIG IF),

maybe Barr is feeling the heat of so many speaking out against him. Keep up the pressure.

[cp]

30. Lying sack of shit

the denial is strong with this one

[gibraltar72]

34. Bullshit.

[Joinfortmill]

35. Ha! He has his limits?

Well, I hope the House shows him limits that find him sitting in a cell.

[Me.]

37. He's A Liar Of The 1st Water

Never believe him or the betrayer in WH, ever

[First Speaker]

39. Hmmm...who could replace him? Hannibal Lector? Kayzer Soze? The Emperor Palpatine?...

...the possibilities are endless...

[lame54]

41. Obama could get him to tweet

[Iggo]

43. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Sure.

[ramen]

44. Would that he would..

(he won't)

[bobGandolf]

47. Happy to see...

we all pretty feel the same about the veracity of that statement.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

49. fuBarr's a lying sack of shit. His daughter protects trumputin's tax information.