How Far Bill Barr Has Fallen

Many observers breathed a sigh of relief when Bill Barr was confirmed as attorney general. Here was a respected professional who had served in the post once before in an honorable administration. Now, just a year and a half later, what a disappointment he has proved. The man cannot be trusted.

Think of the intentionally he gave of the Mueller report, at a time when the public and Congress about including a citizenship question on the 2020 census, whose rationale the Court later characterized as “contrived” and “pretextual.” Or his of the use of armed forces to clear Lafayette Square for the president’s photo op. Or that U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman asked to step down, when Berman had done . And now we have this week about the politicization of the Department of Justice in the prosecution of the Trump ally Roger Stone.