On his way out the door
So a few hours before he leaves Barr sets fire to his enslavement to Trump. Way too late, dude, you won’t get any credit for it now.
Still, the rest of us can take a little pleasure from how much it will enrage the rotting pumpkin.
Attorney General William Barr used his final public appearance to undercut President Donald Trump on multiple fronts Monday, saying he saw no reason to appoint a special counsel to look into the president’s claims about the 2020 election or to name one for the tax investigation of President-elect Joe Biden’s son.
In the course of breaking with Trump on matters that have been consuming the president, Barr also reinforced the belief of federal officials that Russia was behind a massive hack of U.S. government agencies, not China as Trump had suggested.
Ok that’s all very nice but could he also go up to Trump and deliver a painful flick to his nose? And then mess up his hair? And then push him over?
Trump was interested both in a counsel to investigate the younger Biden’s tax dealings and a second to look into election fraud. He even floated the idea of naming attorney Sidney Powell as the counsel — though Powell was booted from Trump’s legal team after she made a series of increasingly wild conspiratorial claims about the election.
That’s sort of hilarious (only sort of because of course as always it’s more sinister than hilarious) – they fire her because she made claims too loony even for them, then Trump talks about wanting to make her a special counsel, because you definitely want your special counsel to be a loony.
He caused the damage he wanted, now whatever scraps of his previous professional reputation he can keep as he leaves can be considered a bonus.
These people are amazing. It seems that the qualities they admire the most are the one they are constantly lacking. As if the mere saying of their adoration somehow dispensed them from showing any of those qualities in actual life. In Barr’s case it’s frankly most moral ones so I am not really taking a big risk here. But I am also reminded of the admiration Boris Johnson reportedly has for Churchill (clarity of vision? steadfastness?) or, to be quite honest, the book Gordon Brown wrote about political courage.
“Way too late, dude, you won’t get any credit for it now.”
Well, not with you or me. But there will be no shortage of people lining up to praise him as a man of principle. Some law school will offer him a position.
Makes me think of all the patting himself on the back Michael Shermer did when he finally quit ignoring the evidence for global warming and after years of denial became a big advocate of the reality of global warming. Now you’d think he discovered it himself and is fighting it single-handedly.