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1. Let’s talk about Barr’s answer (ok, non-answer) to Sen. Kamala Harris’s question about whether Trump or anyone at the White House asked or suggested that he should open a criminal investigation on anyone. Here is why there is a strong likelihood that Barr committed perjury...
2. First, I’ll state the obvious: his evasiveness made him look like a liar. Indeed, he looked like hundreds of lying witness w/ whom I interacted during my 30 years as a prosecutor. After Sen. Harris posed the question, Barr hemmed, hawed and sputtered and finally asked her...
3. to repeat a very straight-forward, simple question. This is often done by liars who are stalling for time as they struggle to find a plausible lie. A further “tell” is Barr’s next evasive measure, saying “I’m grappling with the word ‘suggested.’” Really? A fourth grader...
4. wouldn’t struggle with the word “suggested.” Next dead giveaway? Barr says, “well, there have been discussions of matters out there that...they have not asked me to open an investigation...“ I mean, with an answer like that, the Saturday Night Live skit almost writes itself...
5. But what Barr does next is where the perjury rubber meets the road. As Sen. Harris offers other words to clear-up Barr’s faux confusion over the word “suggested”, she says, “ok, hinted or inferred (you should open an investigation)?”...
6. Barr then says, “I don’t know.” But here’s the thing - Barr DOES know. That fact is painfully obvious by his pathetic attempts to avoid answering the question. If no one at the White House asked him to open an investigation he simply would have answered, “no.” ...
7. Is this perjury? If Barr knows the answer to the question (which plainly he does) but he answers, “I don’t know” which is clearly a lie, that constitutes perjury. Here’s why: if someone could avoid a perjury charge by simply and falsely stating things like, “I don’t know” ...
8. when they DO know or “I don’t remember” when they DO remember, then the exercise of requiring people to testify in a grand jury or at trial or before Congress would be pointless and meaningless, as people could avoid both testifying truthfully AND ...
9. the consequences of testifying falsely by saying, repeatedly, “I don’t know.” The only way that works is if Congress let’s Barr get away with it. Watch the clip of the Sen. Harris-AG Barr exchange again. It sure looks perjurious to me. See if you agree.
