William Barr got his job because he was out front in declaring that an American President was above the law while in office…
Since coming into office Barr has let his Justice Department act as Trump’s personal law firm….
But we have just found out something’s that may have changed that….
First?
Rudy Giuliani IS under investigation by the US Attorney in New York….
Barr had to approve that…
Second?
We now find out that Trump has repeatedly asked Barr to do what he did during the Mueller investigation…
Come out in the media on HIS side…
Barr has refused to do so in the House investigations against Trump in the impeachment inquiry…
Donald Trump does NOT keep people that do NOT show ‘loyality’ to him around to long…
For a while at least, he seemed to have found his Roy Cohn, a lawyer to defend him against his accusers and go after his enemies. But the relationship between President Trump and Attorney General William P. Barr may be growing more complicated with the rising threat of impeachment.
Rather than publicly join the fight against House Democrats pursuing the president, Mr. Barr has remained out of the fray, resisting requests by intermediaries from Mr. Trump to go before the cameras to say no crime had been committed. While Mr. Barr exonerated the president in the spring at the end of the Russia investigation, he has been more reticent in the current matter.
The reluctance hints at a new distance between the two men, according to people who have spoken with them. Mr. Trump, angry with his coverage, is aggravated with Mr. Barr for urging him to release a reconstructed transcript of the telephone call with Ukraine’s president at the center of the impeachment drive. For his part, Mr. Barr was bothered that Mr. Trump on that call lumped him together with Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s private lawyer, like interchangeable parts of his personal defense team.
The two remain on much better terms than Mr. Trump was with his first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, whom he repeatedly berated in public for not protecting him from the Russia investigation and eventually fired. The president has given Mr. Barr extensive leeway and largely deferred to his judgment. Mr. Barr has spoken with pride about how much Mr. Trump relies on him and treats him as a confidant.
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