It will be interesting to see how closely this DOJ statement has to be parsed:
@nytimes: “Mr. Trump has not asked Mr. Barr to contact Ukraine for any reason, Mr. Barr has not communicated with Ukraine on any topic, ..."
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@nytimes: “Mr. Trump has not asked Mr. Barr to contact Ukraine for any reason, Mr. Barr has not communicated with Ukraine on any topic, ..."
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"... and Mr. Barr has not spoken with Mr. Giuliani about the president’s phone call ‘or anything relating to Ukraine,’ a Justice Department spokeswoman, Kerri Kupec, said in a statement.”
For instance, are there intermediaries, and is this statement only technically true, because this was orchestrated through flunkies?
Bad enough for Barr that Trump has such confidence Barr would be his guy in an effort to smear Bidens using foreign country investigation. And Trump dropped Barr’s name repeatedly in a call he said he knew lots of people would be listening in on.
