Bill Barr Struck With Amnesia About His Work To Spread Big Lie

[babylonsister]

https://crooksandliars.com/2022/06/bill-barr-struck-amnesia-about-his-work

Bill Barr Struck With Amnesia About His Work To Spread Big Lie
No applause for the guy who did his best to spread Trump's B.S.
By Susie Madrak — June 14, 2022

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The two-faced former attorney general would have you believe he was a concerned bystander to Trump's coordination of the effort to overthrow the election.

I don't know how he kept a straight face during his testimony to the Jan. 6th select committee. Was he under oath?

Here’s Barr in June 2020 saying that mail-in voting “opens the floodgates of fraud,” even though there is no credible evidence of substantial mail-in voter fraud. Barr voted by mail himself in 2012 & 2019. https://t.co/iDkwHIaKfI

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) June 13, 2022

In July Barr attacked mail-in voting again, this time saying that foreign governments would themselves mail-in phony ballots. Again, mail-in voting has been used for decades w/o evidence or suggestion of this concern. https://t.co/O9EyP2aZky

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) June 13, 2022

Remember when Barr was asked directly in a televised interview about whether U.S. intelligence reports pointed to election interference by China or Russia? And he said”China.” An assertion vehemently contradicted by others who saw the classified reports? https://t.co/mnlhTxSili

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) June 13, 2022

The point is that Bill Barr encouraged misinformation about absentee ballots as inherently vulnerable to fraud, & undergirded Trump’s attempted diversion from Russia by appearing to support the claim that China was attempting to influence the election for Biden.

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) June 13, 2022

Worse, Barr now tells us that he knew the President, with 8 weeks left in office, was volatile and “detached from reality,” and that his response was to resign and then publish a book about it a year later. This is not a heroic legacy.

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) June 13, 2022

Let me just end this with the text of Barr’s 12/14 resignation letter in which he describes how proud he is of having served with Trump & lauds Trump for “advancing the rule of law.” Is this the resignation letter you send to someone you think is unhinged? https://t.co/tZhbRoRlve

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) June 13, 2022

Clearly, Bill Barr see which way the wind is now blowing. And like the ethical windsock that he is, he's going with it.

[rubbersole]

1. Barr is as big a traitor as tfg. And just as sleazy.

Self absorbed pos from a parent that gave Jeffrey Epstine a job in a girl's school (although he had no qualifications).

[kentuck]

2. Barr is trying to pull the wool over the people's eyes...

He was perfectly OK until he was asked to put some skin into the game. What did Trump really ask him to do?

[CentralMass]

3. He was brought in as a fixer to bury the Mueller Report.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Yep! Just like he covered up for Reagan in Iran-Contra. He had history as a fixer...nt

[llashram]

4. exactly

[malthaussen]

5. He's not the only one.

All the rats who are deserting the sinking GOP ship want us to forget the work they did for it before they decided to cover their asses. I think we need to avoid that. Let's be opportunistic and accept their help now, then crush them when the dust has cleared.

-- Mal

[crickets]

14. Yep. It's a pattern of behavior that's going to show up again and again.

Good for those like Sherrilyn Ifill who point out their hypocrisy. It will be interesting to see if the committee is letting the Bill Barrs of the world think they've gotten away with their half-truths, only to circle back around at the end to put the misleading testimony in context. I have a feeling they might.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

6. He deceived America...

...by lying about the Mueller Report.

[turbinetree]

7. Typical Federalist Society member POS that has "selective" memory....

[Wounded Bear]

10. I believe you mean "selective" memory...

[turbinetree]

16. yes I meant that ...will correct.thank you

[spanone]

9. Covering His Ass

[Emile]

11. It appears we have two unhinged nuts!

[gratuitous]

12. The committee is playing this out just so

For folks who want to defend the former guy, Barr's testimony really kneecaps them. In the coming days, look for all kinds of rationalizations along the lines of "Bill Barr was never on Team Trump anyway, he's a turncoat and a RINO, and Trump should never have trusted him." We wait for that reaction to play out.

Then bring in these tweets from Sherrilyn Ifill, reminding people just what a toady Bill Barr was from his audition memo to replace Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III as attorney general until mid-December 2020. That should shatter a few more illusions about the former guy's reign of error.

[crickets]

15. +1

[MerryBlooms]

13. r&k