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Bill Barr is even worse than you think: His entire job is to protect Donald Trump
Barr is the latest in a long line of bootlicking right-wing water carriers: Rich white men tell him what to do
by Lucian K. Truscott IV
Salon.com, 27 June 2020
William Barr, the attorney general of the United States, is a water-carrier for the wealthy. He is only the latest in a long line, including, during my lifetime, such establishmentarian lickspittles as Dean Acheson, John J. McCloy, John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles and Henry Kissinger.
These men, and the jobs they have carried out for the men — it is exclusively men — who own this country are part of the secret history of America. This is the way it works. The men who own most of the wealth in this country can't be bothered with the niggling little details of maintaining their power and ownership, so they reach down into petri dishes of power like Harvard and Yale, and they pluck out promising gofers and they groom them and train them to take care of all the nasty bits of maintaining power like keeping the working class and minorities in line, or fighting their wars or, if necessary, behind bars.
You think this is just fanciful lefty rhetoric, a throwback to the verbiage bandied about by groups like SDS and the Socialist Workers Party in the '60s? Let's have a look at just one of Barr's water-carrier grand-uncles, John J. McCloy, who was named as one of the "wise men" in the book with that title by authors Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas.
McCloy was born in 1895, to an insurance salesman and a hairdresser from Philadelphia, comparatively speaking "the other side of the tracks" in early 20th-century America. He graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Law School. After service in World War I, he took jobs with two prestigious Wall Street law firms where he represented numerous American firms that did business in Nazi Germany, including with the notorious German chemical company, I.G. Farben, which manufactured Zyklon B, the gas used to kill Jews in Nazi concentration camps.
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https://www.salon.com/2020/06/27/bill-barr-is-even-worse-than-you-think-his-entire-job-is-to-protect-donald-trump/
You know his granddad, Tanker. He was with Patton.
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