Attorney General Bill Barr has Some Explaining To Do

Attorney General Bill Barr told Kamala Harris in public testimony “I don’t know” if the White House asked him to investigate anyone. That assertion seems to be inoperative today.

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Anyone else remember Attorney General Bill Barr’s exchange with Senator Kamala Harris? Aaron Rupar sure does! Let’s take a trip down memory lane…

That certainly seems like a big ol’ oopsie-daisy, doesn’t it?

“There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, the Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great.”

Rupar has quite a few juicy memories, including this gem, where Barr has to pause before “acknowledging that presidential campaigns that are offered dirt from hostile foreign governments should probably contact the FBI.”

I think Bill Barr has some explaining to do. In fact, I think quite a lot of people have some explaining to do because, as Talking Points Memo observes Pence was in on the scheme. And probably quite a few other people too.

This new episode suggests that the President can personally commit the most egregious wrongdoing, clearly impeachable offenses, in full view of his most senior advisors, and we hear nothing about it. We only know about this because of this whistleblower, who is him or herself now being attacked publicly as a Deep State partisan. Could Trump have made financial demands of Gulf monarchies to help his private businesses? Could he have asked Vladimir Putin for election assistance in 2020? Given that the demand on Ukraine was considered acceptable and is now being affirmatively defended, there’s no reason to think that these actions wouldn’t have been deemed acceptable and within the President’s purview as well.

Marshall concludes, “[t]his new development suggests he probably has [engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors], that his top advisors know about those bad acts and decided it was okay.” That is almost certainly the fact of the matter, and they all have to go out with the rest of the trash.

Author: Brendan Skwire

Brendan Skwire is a cultural and media critic. He offers nearly two decades of experience as a journalist, video editor, blogger, and community organizer. Skwire has worked for the Philadelphia Weekly, Scrapple TV, and Raw Story, and is a former member of the News Guild.

9 thoughts on “Attorney General Bill Barr has Some Explaining To Do”

  3. The part of the conversation where the donald offers to build a beautiful hotel on the beach and how great the penthouse suite will suit the Ukraine president…Barr kept that classified.

  7. National Trumpalism (like National Socialism before it), is a criminal enterprise that was taken into politics. To serve it is to be an essential component of the criminal racket. It’s an organized crime syndicate which now operates out of the WH instead of Trump Tower, Turnberry and Mar-a-lago.

    Minister of Justice Barr exists largely to present a phony patina of legality and “law” onto the various lawbreaking schemes. He’s doing the best he can to present the lawbreaking as legitimate—that’s the main function that the Gravedigger of Democracy McConnell and his Repub enablers laid out for Barr. So Minister Barr won’t have to “explain” anything to Mitch’s enabling senate–just as he (quite knowingly) lied to Kamala’s face—and he’ll never deign to appear before the House ever again.

  8. Well, not really. There is nothing to explain.

    Barr took this job to be Trump’s fixer. His job is NOT Attorney General – it is to cover up misconduct, lying, and plain-to-see criminal behavior of the most corrupt bastard who ever held public office in the USA. Barr knew the job and volunteered. He is doing his job well – and with a grin on his ultra-partisan party-before-country Republican face.

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