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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBarr Makes It Official--He's Trump's New "Fixer"
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/01/barr-makes-it-official-hes-trump-new-fixer-389805Of President Donald Trumps many career skills, perhaps the least appreciated is his lifelong and uncanny ability to sniff out lawyers who will serve his will.
In slightly more than 500 days in office, Attorney General William Barr has pivoted from establishment D.C. attorneysworn to protect and defend the Constitution of the United Statesinto Trumps family lawyer. The office of the attorney general is one of the oldest in our constitutional system, and the department is pledged to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans. But Barr, instead, displays a tendency to use all the departments leversand with a $32 billion budget there are a lot of themnot to protect all Americans but to protect the president, personally and politically.
Is Election Day set by law? Ive never looked into it, Barr demurred in his testimony this week. Is it appropriate for the president to solicit or accept foreign assistance in an election? Barrs first answer: It depends what kind of assistance. These are the answers of a man who has turned the once-proud Department of Justice into the presidents personal law firm. That is contrary to every tradition of the Justice Department, but consistent with how Trump has operated for his entire professional life.
For decades, Trump found his family lawyers on the mean streets of New York and New Jersey, tapping the corrupt Roy Cohn and his successors, like Michael Cohen and Marc Kasowitz, to protect his interests. They quickly earned the title of fixer for a man whose personal and professional legal needs ultimately swelled to more than 4,000 lawsuits bankruptcies, divorces, libel, unpaid debts, condo fees, wage disputes, and fraud, to name a few.
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Barr Makes It Official--He's Trump's New "Fixer" (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Aug 2020
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Zoonart
(11,922 posts)1. He needs to go.
"Is Election Day set by law? Ive never looked into it, Barr demurred in his testimony this week."
If you don't know basic Constitutional law, you can't be AG...PERIOD.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)4. I really don't understand why some Republican legal heavweights
who are troubled by this idiot's actions don't pursue having him brought up on charges by the NY or D.C. Bar. Seems like there's plenty of evidence to support disbarment.
agingdem
(7,877 posts)2. Trump, Barr, Miller, Ivanka, Jared, Mnuchin...
they're are all the same...no cognitive awareness ...narcissistic, depraved, apathetic, self-righteous, cruel, callous, entitled, inept, vacuous, sociopathic, anti-knowledge, racist...and they are unable to comprehend their utter repulsiveness... and anyone that questions their "greatness" or refuses to bow and scrape is ridiculed and tossed..
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,509 posts)3. K&R