Wonkette: Bill Barr Would Like You To Think He's One Of The Good Guys. He Is Not.

[Nevilledog]

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Is former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr flogging a book so he can rehabilitate his reputation? Or is he rehabilitating his reputation so he can flog his stupid book?

This is not a chicken-and-egg question, because the answer is, we do not give a fuck and no one should be platforming this disgusting asshole. We were all there, we all saw what he did, and he should not be afforded the opportunity to pretend he was one of the good guys. And yet, here he is on MSNBC with Lester Holt, on NPR this morning, on "Today" with Savannah Guthrie. Good morning, liberals!

“I was pretty content with the administration until the election,” Barr told Guthrie. “But after the election, he went off the rails.”

Because extorting the leader of a foreign country for dirt on your electoral opponent by withholding congressionally allocated defense funds is hunky-freakin'-dory with ol' Bill Barr. Which we already knew, because we watched him bury the IG whistleblower complaint on Trump's perfect call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the DOJ's criminal division, in defiance of federal law.

We saw him spew lies about planeloads of antifa protestors flying from city to city fucking shit up. We saw him pretend mail-in ballots virtually guaranteed there would be massive fraud. We watched him dummy up memo after memo justifying blanket defiance of congressional oversight and an imperial presidential privilege. We watched him blow up the case against Michael Flynn and reduce Roger Stone's requested sentence to a slap on the wrist. We saw him investigate Hillary Clinton's email server until October of 2019. We saw him dispatch John Durham to find something, anything wrong with the Russia investigation. We saw him sic the DOJ on Trump's enemies, suing both John Bolton, who had an obligation to protect classified data, and Melania's former friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who most certainly did not. We saw him order the teargassing of peaceful protestors so Trump could molest a Bible at a church for a photo op.

We could go on until we ran out of pixels, but we don't have to because you were all there, too! So you are also probably not down for a bunch of soft focus interviews with a guy who spent two straight years running interference for a lunatic who ran the White House like the world's least organized crime family, but alleges he took a principled stand when it came to doing an actual coup.

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[Lovie777]

1. He is up there with the worst of them . . .

[lagomorph777]

2. Fred Flintstone's evil twin.

[Skittles]

3. Barr is a supreme piece of shit

his book is a desperate attempt to whitewash his fascist image - history will view him harshly

[Nevilledog]

4. Depends on how successful his rehabilitation tour is.

[Skittles]

5. he whines about us libs being too hard on Putie

Barr has zero credibility

[agingdem]

12. no contrition...no remorse..

that jowly asshole with that smug look of contempt on his face, daring Holt and Guthrie to challenge him...and if they tepidly did question his judgment, his response: it was my decision...so there!...Barr can hit every talk show from now until forever but he will always be that corpulent puss-pocket who buffered Trump's insanity..Barr's attempt to gaslight us, cleanse himself of his own stink is pointless..we've got the receipts...

[Skittles]

13. he is COMPLICIT

he is every bit as corrupt and fascist as Trump

[agingdem]

14. absolutely...

he gave Trump cover...he justified Trump's depraved insanity, he was the devil's helper..

[Skittles]

16. he knew the sheer insanity of the Jan 6 plans

that's the ONLY REASON he bailed

[agingdem]

17. and that was a bridge too far...

the fleshy sonofabitch knew exactly what he was doing when he publicly proclaimed the election was fair...he knew his venomous boss would rage and fire him and that was his way out...a slob of a coward to the end...

[Tadpole Raisin]

6. AND even though he would prefer not to have TFG be the 2024 nominee, if it was TFG or a democrat he

Would vote for TFG because the democrats are the real threat with their progressive agenda.

So tired of this view which is so common in republican political class and voters.

That particular statement is around the 12 min. Mark.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. Wasn't it reported today that he would STILL vote for OrangeAnus??

That, in itself, is unforgivable.

[Boomerproud]

8. He's wasting his time with me.

[Roy Rolling]

9. What's the word? chutzpah?

Selling a book rewriting the history of his treachery? Fvuk him.

[paleotn]

10. He's not. Nor is John Bolton

They're just not stupid shits like the rest and want a chair when the music finally stops.

[colorado_ufo]

11. Did someone loosen the cilice on his leg and now

he suddenly has regained critical thinking? He probably prays each night that TFG will appear and personally tighten it again.

[Peregrine Took]

15. Like Dick "Cheeney" - he hated the 60's and the protests

and both carried those malevolent feelings into their insular adult lives.

Pathetic they could never get out of those sick right wing bubbles.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. There is no way that I will buy this asshole's book

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