Former Attorney General Bill Barr on Wednesday undermined a key pillar of his old boss’ defense in the special counsel’s probe into 2020 election interference, telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that Donald Trump “knew well he lost the election.”
Understandably people have been pretty aghast that Barr is saying all this stuff while being non committal about whether he would still vote for Trump. I wonder if it’s possible he’s avoiding saying that publicly for now in case he’s called on to testify in the triak. If he’s on the record on public TV saying he’s voting against trump, possible on the witness stand on cross examination trump’s lawyers could try and argue he’s partisan and his statements are politically motivated. Or he’s a coward I don’t know, just a thought.
I mean he’s definitely a coward, just like all the trump sycophants. Barr is weird because he was the one who wrote the whole memo about how executive power should be expanded/absolute, while on his way into the trump admin’s good graces. Something flipped a switch for him, could have been Jan 6 stuff but not entirely clear. I’m sure he’ll try to cash in on a biographical novel to tell us all about it someday.
Barr announced his resignation on Monday, December 14, 2020, to take effect Wednesday, December 23, 2020.
What happened over the weekend of December 12/13, 2020, or maybe in the week prior?
Well, if you know your enemy won the election, you’d not commit a crime.
Something flipped a switch for him, could have been Jan 6 stuff but not entirely clear.
Criminal liability has a funny way of doing that. I suspect he’s smart enough to not end up under the bus via defending or breaking laws for Trump in a losing legal battle.
But will he testify to that? Saying it on CNN is fine, but I need people to say it under oath and cross examination.
Barr is complicit in Trumps crimes. We should not be giving a voice to anything he has to say. He needs to be in jail, along with every single Trump appointee.
The way to prosecute someone in a criminal conspiracy is to get their cronies to flip on them.
Barr is right that Trump lost.