Thread by @VMadge

There are no separation of powers in the Trump regime. That is THE only reason he is still in office.
Barr is the main conspirator. @SethAbramson has the goods. read.macmillan.com/lp/proof-of-co…

As part of his assistance of Durham’s investigation, Barr conferences privately overseas with foreign leaders and intelligence services, receiving Trump’s help in scheduling certain of his meetings.

The Independent reports on November 1 that “UK intelligence officials [are] shaken by [the] Trump administration’s requests for help with [Durham’s] counter-impeachment inquiry,” with one British official saying,

“It is like nothing we have come across before, they are basically asking, in quite robust terms, for help in doing a hatchet job on their own intelligence services.”

In February 2020, the New York Times reports that “Trump administration officials investigating the government’s response to Russia’s election interference in 2016 appear to be hunting for a basis to accuse Obama-era intelligence officials of hiding

evidence or manipulating analysis about Moscow’s covert operation”
The Times notes that “Mr. Durham’s questioning is certain to add to accusations that Mr. Trump is using the Justice Department to go after his perceived enemies.”

The findings by the Justice Department’s chief watchdog significantly undercut Attorney General Barr’s theory that the 2016 Trump presidential campaign was specially targeted for FISA malfeasance by unnamed actors within federal law enforcement—

a persistent if wholly unsubstantiated “deep-state” conspiracy theory that has become, especially in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, a hobbyhorse for the president and his congressional allies. [end]