Based upon accounts of William Barr's new book, "One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General", one thing seems clear; Barr was more evil than the man, Donald Trump, whom he criticizes. According to Barr, Trump "was off the rails" after he lost the election and has neither the temperament nor persuasive powers to be a good leader. Barr, on the other hand, knowingly did Trump's bidding until nearly the very end of the president's term notwithstanding the illegal, immoral and undemocratic character of the demands made by the unhinged president.
Barr tries to brush aside his own violations of the rule of law and his undermining of the independence of the Department of Justice, which he treated as an arm of Trump's political machine. His distortion of the Mueller Report, unseemly intervention on behalf of Roger Stone and his inexplicable dismissal of the case against Michael Flynn, despite the latter's guilty plea, are all swept away without adequate explanation or legal justification. Only when it became apparent that Trump had totally lost it and made demands on Barr that threatened to involve him in patently criminal activity, did Barr resist and incur the wrath of his master. He slipped quietly away and now, with a book to sell, he re-emerges as a self-proclaimed guardian of good government.
Please spare us the absurdity Mr. Barr. Your belated critique of Donald Trump, and self-serving defense of your own unethical behavior are too much to stomach.
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