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3 winners and 3 losers from William Barr's Mueller report testimony
...Winner: Foreign governments who want to interfere in US elections
Barr went to extreme lengths to normalize the Trump campaign’s extensive contacts with Russia. Barr hesitated before answering a question from Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) about whether presidential campaigns offered dirt on their opponents by foreign governments should report the offer to the FBI. The Trump campaign faced this exact scenario when top members of its campaign took a meeting in Trump Tower with a Kremlin-connected lawyer who was offering dirt on Hillary Clinton.
...Winner: Mazie Hirono
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) stood out by not pulling any punches during her questioning time. She immediately laid into Barr, saying “the American people know you are no different from Rudy Giuliani or Kellyanne Conway, or any of the other people who sacrificed their once decent reputations for the liar and grifter who sits in the Oval Office.”
...Winner: Donald Trump
...Trump has found his man. Throughout the hearing, Barr acted more like the president’s personal lawyer than the attorney general. At one point he even portrayed a response to Klobuchar as “what the president’s lawyers would say,” completely blurring the lines between the DOJ and White House....
Barr went to extreme lengths to normalize the Trump campaign’s extensive contacts with Russia. Barr hesitated before answering a question from Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) about whether presidential campaigns offered dirt on their opponents by foreign governments should report the offer to the FBI. The Trump campaign faced this exact scenario when top members of its campaign took a meeting in Trump Tower with a Kremlin-connected lawyer who was offering dirt on Hillary Clinton.
...Winner: Mazie Hirono
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) stood out by not pulling any punches during her questioning time. She immediately laid into Barr, saying “the American people know you are no different from Rudy Giuliani or Kellyanne Conway, or any of the other people who sacrificed their once decent reputations for the liar and grifter who sits in the Oval Office.”
...Winner: Donald Trump
...Trump has found his man. Throughout the hearing, Barr acted more like the president’s personal lawyer than the attorney general. At one point he even portrayed a response to Klobuchar as “what the president’s lawyers would say,” completely blurring the lines between the DOJ and White House....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/1/18525766/william-barr-mueller-report-testimony
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