Bill Barr just blew up one of Donald Trump’s biggest false narratives
When Attorney General Bill Barr spent the final month of the election out of sight, then did nothing to try to help Donald Trump overturn the election result, we took it as a sign that Barr knew there was no saving Trump and was instead trying to save himself.
Sure enough, Barr is now resigning and/or being fired, after refusing to help Trump with his corrupt post-election bidding. It’s now pretty clear that Barr has decided his best shot at staying out of prison for his many acts of felony obstruction of justice is to try to rehabilitate his reputation, so the DOJ might back down from criminally charging him.
Barr’s latest attempt at whitewashing his criminal role in the Trump regime is a new interview with the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel, probably the most blatantly dishonest Trump apologist to write for any major newspaper.
During the interview, Barr spends a lot of time falsely painting himself as some kind of hero who stepped in and made the tough decisions that the indecisive cowards at the DOJ couldn’t. The whole thing reads like fan fiction. But strangely, Barr takes a moment to admit that the CIA and the U.S. government did not improperly spy on the Trump 2016 campaign, as Donald Trump has claimed so many times.
It seems that Bill Barr is fully intent on somehow painting himself as a heroic anti-Trump crusader, in the hope of saving his own neck. No dice. Barr committed countless acts of felony obstruction of justice, and he obviously must go to prison for the rest of his life.
