Rachel Maddow just nailed it
When Bill Barr tried to replace SDNY U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman with his own lackey this weekend, the end result was that Berman resigned but put his own respected Deputy in charge instead. At the time, Palmer Report pointed out that this was a total swing and miss for Barr, in what is now becoming a string of swings and misses. He’s as evil as ever, but he keeps proving himself more inept at his evil.
During her show tonight, Rachel Maddow drew the same conclusion. Her succinct way of putting things: “It does seem like Bill Barr’s wheels are coming off.” Barr has failed to stop John Bolton’s book, Barr has failed to bring an attempted criminal case against Trump nemesis Andrew McCabe, Barr has failed thus far to get the case against Trump ally Michael Flynn dropped, and Barr failed to get Roger Stone’s prison sentence reduced.
It’s becoming more clear that as evil as Bill Barr is, he’s not particularly skilled at this kind of villainy. That doesn’t mean we can take him lightly. But it does mean that if we keep focusing on his scandals, such as when he ordered the assault of peaceful protesters outside the White House, we can force the fairly inept Barr to waste much of his time playing defense – so he has even less time to play offense.
