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Why Bill Barr Did It All for Donald Trump
Why did a formerly respected conservative sell his soul to an amoral troll? Because his soul was at stake.Ah, Bill Barr, we hardly knew ye.
No one is sad that youre gone. Not the left, who will never forgive you for misrepresenting the Mueller report and exonerating President Trump. Not the hard right, who will never forgive you for betraying their spray-tanned god in the hour of his greatest need. And not the reasonable, rational centrists, either, who thought you were one of them until you showed them that you werent.
But all of us who have followed your bizarre second career as attorney general are left pondering one, impenetrable question: Why?
Why did you do it? Why did you even take this job, knowing the kind of man youd be working for? And why did you then surprise the Washington establishment by not only carrying water for this amoral troll but contorting the truth, eroding the integrity and independence of the Department of Justice, indulging Trumps basest authoritarian instincts, and even being held in contempt of Congress along the way?
The sycophancy went right to the end. Even Barrs resignation letter is a gigantic kiss on Trumps posterior, lauding the many successes and unprecedented achievements you have delivered for the American people. Though I guess we can chalk that up to Stockholm Syndrome.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-bill-barr-did-it-all-for-donald-trump
Bottom line: Barr is a religious nutjob who was fighting against the "moral decay" of American society.
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Why Bill Barr Did It All for Donald Trump (Original Post)
Zorro
Dec 2020
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Walleye
(31,028 posts)1. I still can't figure out their religious nuts' definition of morality
pwb
(11,276 posts)2. That letter was written by Trumps people not Barr.
IMO.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,739 posts)6. I agree. It was probably part of a deal between Barr and Trump
in which Trump agreed to notify the public of Barr's resignation in a flattering press release instead of firing him by Tweet and publicly bad-mouthing him, if Barr would agree to submit his resignation in that grotesquely ass-kissing letter drafted by the White House.
czarjak
(11,278 posts)3. "History is written by the winners", loser?
Firestorm49
(4,035 posts)4. The fool didn't quit. He was fired and tried to save face with another lie.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)5. I think it was Jeffrey Epstein related