Here are 10 disturbing moments from Trump’s attorney general nominee hearings
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President Donald Trump’s efforts to exert control over the Justice Department — one of the few bodies left that can assert a real check on his power and corruption — have been an ongoing crisis and scandal during his time in office. In that context, his nomination of former Attorney General William Barr to retake the top position at the head of the department warrants extreme scrutiny.
And given the fact that Barr crafted a 20-page memo over the summer purporting to argue that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s theory of how the president obstructed justice — a theory Barr can’t, in fact, have had any reliable information about — looks so dubious. He passed the memo along to both Justice Department officials and Trump’s legal team, a move that appears suspiciously like an application for the attorney general position on the basis that he would counter Mueller’s and others’ potential attempts to expose the president’s wrongdoing.
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1. Barr doesn’t pledge to follow the ethics officials’ advice on recusing himself from investigations.
his past anti-Mueller investigation comments are documented
2. He did not commit to making Mueller’s report public.
making that report public despite any republican attempts to obstruct it was the first thing Mueller figured out how to do
3. He said he didn’t know what the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause says.
republican ignorance is bliss and Congress determines what emoluments are acceptable, not the DOJ.
4. When asked about the reported counterintelligence probe into the president, Barr brought up texts from Lisa Page and Peter Strzok.
another deflector in trump's cabinet, how shocking.
5. Barr said he has “no reason to doubt that the Russians attempted to fear in our election.”
... with a useful idiot that owed them a shitload of money as a candidate
What bothered me the most was he would not commit to even handing over all the findings to congress.
for me it was his hedging on a free press. oh well, the legal precedence of jailing some media personalities that "harm the country" might come in handy in 2021.