If you’ve been wondering why there’s so much continuing uproar over Attorney General Barr, an attorney who occupied the same position under President Bush (GHW) and, until joining the Trump Administration generally considered an honorable man, today’s contretemps concerning the length of sentence for convicted felon and Nixon-lover Roger Stone is a clue: when the Department of Justice announced it would override the requested length of sentence for Stone that was requested by the prosecutors on the case, they all quit. This came after this tweet appeared:
This is a horrible and very unfair situation. The real crimes were on the other side, as nothing happens to them. Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice! https://t.co/rHPfYX6Vbv
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 11, 2020
I daresay the prosecutors, successfully proving Stone engaged in felonious behavior in connection with one of the most important parts of democracy, and when they chose to quit it wasn’t because they have lucrative jobs waiting, but because they recognize they can no longer work in an honorable manner with the Department.
Look, this is all circumstantial evidence, right? But, in combination with all the other evidence – begin with Barr’s misleading summary of the Mueller Report – and the sum total does not leave Barr looking like an independent and competent AG.
If Trump really thought “the crimes were on the other side,” and Barr was doing nothing about them, shouldn’t he be tearing Barr a new one? Yet, nothing happens. Barr is busy keeping him happy.
