So AG Bill Barr took a few minutes away from working on Trump’s re-election campaign to talk with Fox News. He assured everyone that his investigation of the investigators who found massive illegal Russian interference in the 2016 election isn’t designed to help Trump.
2. Really? Let’s see if that claim withstands scrutiny. All of our intelligence agencies concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to hurt Hillary Clinton and help Trump get elected. A bipartisan congressional committee concluded the exact same thing.
3. Mueller also found “sweeping and systematic” Russian interference to get Trump elected. If fact, Mueller criminally indicted a battalion of Russians for criminally interfering in our election. But Barr, apparently unconvinced, is trying to undo those findings because those
4. findings bother Trump & undermine the legitimacy of his presidency. Let’s use an example to highlight the folly of Barr’s quest. Let’s assume a person, we’ll call him Thomas, calls the police & reports that he suspects his neighbor, we’ll call him Stephen, is a serial killer.
5. Thomas tells the police he has seen several women entering Stephen’s house but never sees any leave. Recently, he heard desperate cries coming from inside Stephen’s house. He also started noticing a smell coming from the house that he associates with death/decomposition.
6. The police investigate, develop sufficient evidence to obtain a search warrant, go into Stephen’s house and, to everyone’s horror, discover a dozen bodies. The police arrest Stephen, read him his Miranda rights (which he waives, agreeing to be interviewed) & Stephen confesses
7. to committing a dozen murders. Stephen is indicted, tried and convicted for his crimes. Now, Bill Barr enters the picture. Trump tells Barr that Stephen is a good friend of his and Thomas is a political enemy. Trump tells Barr to investigate Thomas.
8. Barr investigates Thomas and discovers that Stephen once borrowed Thomas’s lawnmower and failed to return it. Accordingly, Barr concludes that Thomas is not to be believed because he has a bias against Stephen. Barr announces that he therefore believes
9. Stephen should be cleared because Thomas had a grudge against Stephen. But what about all the evidence proving Stephen is a serial killer, one might ask? That doesn’t matter. Stephen is a Trump friend and Thomas is a Trump foe. That’s all that matters in the corrupt world
10. of Donald Trump & William Barr. Same principle w/all the indisputable evidence of Russian interference. That doesn’t matter in corrupt Trump/Barr world. Putin is Trump’s man, so the investigators who uncovered Russia’s attack on our election & our country must be undermined.
