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Kamala Harris Turned Trump's Attorney General into a Stuttering Clown

Kamala Harris Turned Trump's Attorney General into a Stuttering Clown

Last night, attorney general and presidential cover-up extraordinaire William Barr abruptly announced that he would not testify as scheduled before the House Judiciary Committee today. Of particular concern to him was the committee's insistence that its attorneys, not just its members, be allowed to interrogate his dubious handling of Robert Mueller's final report during the hearing. In light of Barr's disastrous performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, this was a wise decision, because no senator managed to elicit more valuable information during questioning than longtime prosecutor Kamala Harris.

The Democratic presidential candidate began by asking Barr whether anyone at the White House ever "asked or suggested" that he "open an investigation of anyone." The question was plainly directed at President Donald Trump's public suggestions that because Mueller turned up no evidence of a much-hyped Trump-Russia criminal conspiracy, his Department of Justice must now investigate the investigators. Because Trump believes the Mueller probe exonerated him, he reasons that the probe must have been the product of his political enemies' efforts to bring him down. (This argument elides the facts, for example, that Mueller catalogues numerous attempts by Trump-affiliated figures to coordinate with individuals connected to the Kremlin, and lays out more than enough evidence for Congress to conclude that Trump's efforts to bury such details constitute obstruction of justice.)

This "investigate-the-investigators" rallying cry is a key component of a delusional, Fox News-driven conspiracy theory in which President Barack Obama planted a secret spy within the Trump campaign in a desperate attempt to take down the then-Republican nominee. In testimony before a Senate appropriations subcommittee last month, Barr seemed to lend credibility to this story by refusing to rule out a retaliatory investigation. "I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal," he explained. "I'm not suggesting it wasn't adequately predicated. But I think I need to explore that."

The Department of Justice falls under the executive branch, but because its job is to enforce federal law in an evenhanded manner, presidents are supposed to allow attorneys general to operate independently of partisan interests. And Barr, for some reason, really struggled to provide a straightforward answer to Harris's questioning about what the White House had—or hadn't—suggested that he do.





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via DMT.NEWS, Jay Willis

May 2, 2019 at 04:29PM