March 1, 2022
Former AG Bill Barr outs himself as an establishment swamp creature
By Andrea Widburg
When I think of former Attorney General William Barr, I think of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Part of him is an upstanding figure who respected constitutional limitations; another part of him is a loyal swamp creature who desperately wanted to serve a milquetoast George W. Bush (or George H.W. Bush) only to find himself working for a vigorous, aggressive Donald J. Trump. Both those aspects of his personality apparently come through loud and clear in a new 600-page book (and doorstop) in which he narrates his stints as U.S. Attorney General under both George Bush, Sr., and Donald Trump.
I have not read One Damn Thing After Another, and do not intend to. Everything in this short essay is based upon the New York Post’s article about the book. First, the part of the article that reflects well on Barr’s relatively short stint as Trump’s AG:
In his book, Barr defends himself against accusations that he was protecting Trump when he issued a summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
He also dropped the criminal case against Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, for lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials during the presidential campaign.
Barr wrote that he had to intervene in those cases because of what he saw as overreach by federal prosecutors.
“Predictably our motion to dismiss the charges led to an election-year media onslaught, flogging the old theme that I was doing this as a favor to Trump,” he wrote in the book. “But I concluded the handling of the Flynn matter by the FBI had been an abuse of power that no responsible AG could let stand.”
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/former_ag_bill_barr_outs_himself_as_an_establishment_swamp_creature.html
