Why didn't Barr stop this pardon investigation?

[edhopper]

He said he had to approve of any investigation into the Administration.

It couldn't be ethics or fidelity to the Law.

[Cha]

1. 64 Million $$$$ question

[empedocles]

16. You got that

[RockRaven]

2. It wasn't an investigation into the ADMINISTRATION, just someone seeking a pardon.

The problem with trying to be a corrupt head of an organization full of lawyers is that the cats you are trying to herd are potentially annoying pe[n]dants.

So they may not have told him.

Edit: fuck, fuck, fucking typos/autocorrect when writing about PEDANTS on your tablet.

[greenjar_01]

10. They might also be pedants (like me), in addition to being necklaces of some kind

[RockRaven]

12. I stand appropriately corrected...

See edit above.

[greenjar_01]

17. Hahahaha

Got 'em!!!

[uponit7771]

18. +1

[Frasier Balzov]

3. I assume it's because nobody involved

is somebody Trump wants to save.

[wishstar]

9. Somebody like Gates who flipped and supposedly fully cooperated with Mueller

and was looking out for himself and his family and not a loyal member of Trump's innermost circle

[LizBeth]

4. I imagine he can only go so far, hide so much, stop only some. I am thinking now it is all for

themselves because they are al crooked and Trump and right really thought he would win.

[fearnobush]

5. Who knows. Perhaps a he has a safety valve back door deal cut

With the incoming Biden admin in case his current boss fails to pardon him meaning that if he, trump doesn’t pardon him, Barr will sing to Biden DOJ. Thus today’s development could be a shot fired across tRumps bow, a warning shot with a clear message- pardon me or else.

[SCantiGOP]

6. If it could be proven that Barr knew about it

He would be very guilty if he DIDN’T let an investigation take place.
Or, as someone else suggested, maybe it doesn’t involve trump, so they see no reason not to actually follow the law.

Following the law is not their default setting.

[fearnobush]

8. Perhaps. Especially if tRump is framed as the victim here

By having someone threatening to sing unless a pardon is given.

[fierywoman]

7. Because he's a scheisster???

[PJMcK]

11. I think you mean "shyster"

It's often considered anti-Semitic.

[fierywoman]

13. I was trying to spell "shit" in German, which I think is the original word? My sense of the meaning

is that someone is a shit head; if that's antisemitic, I beg your pardon, I had no idea.

Here, I looked it up:

What does Scheisser mean in German?
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary deemed it probably based on the German Scheisser [Scheißer] (literally "defecator", "shitter" ). A book published in 2013 traces the first use back to 1843, when scammers in New York City would exploit prisoners by pretending to be lawyers.

[PJMcK]

14. Oops! My mistake! (n/t)

[edhopper]

20. Perhaps

scheisskopf is more appropriate and to end any confusion.

[moonscape]

15. The reality is that every single criminal

in this country knows that Trump is corrupt and easily bought. It could be anyone, i.e. someone connected with his gang of thieves, or someone who isn’t but has connections and enough $$ to try.

As Trump would say, what does s/he have to lose?

[skip fox]

19. If the person seeking the pardon had done something so wrong that Barr sickened, then

he might have let the investigation run.

What about Ghislaine Maxwell? He sex crimes would repulse Barr.

Or he may draw a line at pardons for bribes.

[edhopper]

21. I doubt that

he was perfectly fine with Trump pardoning Stone in exchange for his silence.

[wiggs]

22. I haven't seen anything about the investigation that would exclude former presidents. If it

isn't Trump's WH then it makes more sense that Barr would let it happen, especially in the context of the recent Durham stuff

Barr is so heinous I wouldn't ascribe any noble purpose to his actions unless proven otherwise