Barr is Cheney 2.0. He is CIA from way back. His father was OSS. His father hired Jeffrey Epstein to be a math teacher at the Dalton School. Barr was AG when Bush I gave Christmas eve pardons to Elliott Abrams and others after Bush I was voted out of office in 1992....
Barr was brought into the Trump administration about the same time as Elliott Abrams. He basically declared that based on his reading of the Mueller report that there was no obstruction of justice. So Barr basically got to decide if Trump stays or goes.
Barr will provide legal and political cover for Trump who simply deals in symbolism and narrow self interest. He is incredibly slick and will triangulate. It will be in his interest to appear to uphold the law. This shows the limits of the current protests.
The question about these protests is: Are they motivated by the racism or by the nationality? That is, is the protesting motivated by Floyd's killing because it was motivated by racism or because he was a USian? If the later, it effectively backs up US Empire.
I argued along these lines in "How #AllLivesMatter and #BlackLivesMatter Can Devalue Life" in 2015:
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Barr and others are also talking about "foreign actors" -- so this becomes an exercise in allegedly exalting lives because they are USian (selectively) and an exercise in xenophobia that can demonize protest and whatever country Barr and company want to.
Barr notes that he was AG during the LA protests following the beating of Rodney King. The same crew is basically in charge. They have no interest in fixing any problem, only in gaming it for purposes of Empire. Trump is a prop to Barr.
Trump has served them by increasing military and other spending, he has used sanctions and other mechanisms to attack Iran and Venezuela. He has backed escalating Israeli expansionism, Saudi slaughter in Yemen and continued US wars. And he has ripped up treaty after treaty.
They want more. They used Russiagate as a possible threat to Trump. If Trump had acted on his isolationist rhetoric, they would have almost certainly turned on him and backed impeachment and removal. The "law" is a tool of power to Barr. They will now use other things.
They could care less about Trump racism and will use whatever they can to keep him in line on the Empire project. I never thought Trump would deviate from it, but Trump is a compulsive liar & these people are not fools. They need to have leverage over him bc he turns on partners.
And first question is from Pete Williams on NBC. In 1986, Williams became press secretary for then Rep Dick Cheney and followed Cheney to DOD, became Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs in 1989 during Bush I. Complete clique.
Barr talks about a "witch's brew" of people and groups involved in protests. He and his associates are the witch's brew.
