William Barr carefully distances himself from Trump on key issues
by Del Quentin Wilber, Los Angeles Times
Jan 16, 2019
4 minutes
WASHINGTON - William Barr, President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, told a Senate panel Tuesday that he did not believe special counsel Robert S. Mueller III was on a "witch hunt" and said he would not fire Mueller without good cause.
"I would not carry out that instruction" if asked to do so, Barr testified, adding he would not be "bullied into doing something I think is wrong."
On the first day of a two-day confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, Barr gingerly distanced himself from the president on several key issues, a move that appeared to mollify Democrats on the panel concerned about whether he would
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