“He’s a straight shooter and should be dealt w
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“He’s a straight shooter and should be dealt with as such.”
— Barr on Mueller
Uh oh, the 'diry cop' has hisself a supporter. LMAO!
Careful what you wish for Cheeborger guy.
President Donald Trump's relationships with his attorneys general have turned on their willingness to protect him against special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Trump’s latest nominee, William Barr, indicated to a crucial Senate panel that he and Trump won't be in lockstep on the issue that threatens Trump's presidency.
Barr, who was George H.W. Bush’s attorney general, attempted to set a tone of measured independence before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. He sharply defended his friend Mueller, and defused much Democratic criticism by scaling back an extensive legal memo he wrote in June 2018 that seemed to criticize Mueller for going beyond the special counsel’s mandate in investigating Trump for obstruction of justice.
Mueller didn’t appear at Barr’s confirmation hearing. But his influence was inescapable.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/william-barr-de...ref=scroll
Barr emphasized that he expected Mueller to have entered in the endgame of his 18-month investigation, which has yielded multiple indictments, convictions and guilty pleas against senior Trump associates like Paul Manafort and Mike Flynn.
He committed to making as many of Mueller’s conclusions public as possible. He clarified that he didn’t intend his June memorandum to be an omnibus rejection of obstruction inquiries against a president.
And Barr said he considered it “unthinkable” for Mueller to do anything meriting the special counsel’s removal—and specifically rejected the Trump-pushed notion Mueller is conducting a “witch hunt” —providing reassurance against fears on the left that Barr’s appointment is about suppressing Mueller.
“He’s a straight shooter and should be dealt with as such.”
— Barr on Mueller
Remarkably, Barr conceded he could see circumstances where Trump could be considered to have obstructed justice. Queried by Delaware Democrat Chris Coons, Barr said that if Trump floated a pardon to subordinates as “a quid pro quo to altering testimony, that would implicate an obstruction statute.”
As recently as November, Trump said he was opening to pardoning Manafort, his former campaign chair, and his ex-lawyer reportedly suggested pardoning Flynn, his ex-national security adviser, as well.
Barr also backtracked from the implications of his now-infamous memo that appeared to lambaste Mueller for investigating Trump over obstruction of justice.
Under repeated questioning, Barr said he was speculating about Mueller’s theory of obstruction – rather than asserting what it in fact is – particularly if that theory turned on Trump firing FBI Director Jim Comey for what Comey has characterized as Trump’s efforts to protect Flynn, who subsequently pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
“I was not calling Mueller grossly irresponsible,” Barr said. Asked by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) if he received any nonpublic information about the Mueller probe, Barr hedged: “I don’t recall getting any confidential information about the investigation.”
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