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Former Attorney General Bill Barr on Wednesday undermined a key pillar of his old boss’ defense in the special counsel’s probe into 2020 election interference, telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that Donald Trump “knew well he lost the election.”

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Understandably people have been pretty aghast that Barr is saying all this stuff while being non committal about whether he would still vote for Trump. I wonder if it's possible he's avoiding saying that publicly for now in case he's called on to testify in the triak. If he's on the record on public TV saying he's voting against trump, possible on the witness stand on cross examination trump's lawyers could try and argue he's partisan and his statements are politically motivated. Or he's a coward I don't know, just a thought.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I mean he’s definitely a coward, just like all the trump sycophants. Barr is weird because he was the one who wrote the whole memo about how executive power should be expanded/absolute, while on his way into the trump admin’s good graces. Something flipped a switch for him, could have been Jan 6 stuff but not entirely clear. I’m sure he’ll try to cash in on a biographical novel to tell us all about it someday.

[–] tauisgod 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When other people did this in the past it was usually because of a pending book deal. I don't know if that's true in this case. I think he's just an unprincipled rat that's self serving enough know which way the wind is blowing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If so, at least it means the wind is blowing in the right direction for a change.

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