Everything Bill Barr Did, He Did For Trump

[Nevilledog]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/everything-bill-barr-did-he-did-for-trump


Back in September 2020, then-Attorney General Bill Barr stopped by the office of a local columnist while on a trip to Chicago.

He came with a warning about the coming election.

“They are creating an incendiary situation where there’s going to be loss of confidence in the vote, it’ll be a close vote,” Barr told Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass, referring to Democrats. “People will say ‘The President won Nevada — oh, wait a minute! We just discovered a hundred thousand ballots, every vote must be counted!’”

It’s a prediction that closely hews to the Big Lie that Trump and his lickspittles helped propagate after the November election. In a recent, lengthy interview with The Atlantic, Barr proclaimed that he resigned in December 2020 because he had “had enough.” Barr used the opportunity to portray his conduct as an attempt to constrain a rogue Trump, calling allegations that the election was stolen “bullshit.”

But a close look at Barr’s behavior pre and post election shows that the former attorney general was willing to help Trump sow distrust in the election up until the very last minute.

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[Xoan]

1. W R O N G !

Everything Bill Barr did, he did for BILL BARR!

[malaise]

4. +1,000

never forget his comment - the winners write history.
Now the losers want to rewrite it. Fuck him!

[Baitball Blogger]

2. It wasn't just Trump. Barr believes in a controlling executive style for the presidency.

He's been promoting it since the Nixon years. The part that should get him in trouble, is that he was willing to lie to reach that goal. He should be punished for that.

[tblue37]

5. Only if the president is a Republican.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. +1

[GulfCoast66]

3. I think Barr personally despises trump. But he wants a theocracy

And saw trump as a brick on the road to get us there.

[empedocles]

7. It is possible, that barr's 'new leaf' lately, still self interested, is more than 'cosmetic'

[snowybirdie]

8. John Kass

is a right wing tumper columnist who has filled his columns with hate for years. A fitting listener for Barr. Knew him from middle school. He seemed normal then, but over the years, he embraced conservative ideology, like most of the kids from my old neighborhood. Too bad he was terminated from the Tribune last week in an economy move.

[C_U_L8R]

9. Barr is yet another shamed Trump employee

How many traded their (meager) integrity, thinking they might actually profit,
only to find themselves much worse off than before. What is it they say about
everything Trump touches? Maybe these idiots should have paid attention.