#AskTheAG: Barr is taking Twitter questions on coronavirus issues, and it's getting ugly
#AskTheAG: Barr is taking Twitter questions on coronavirus issues, and it’s getting ugly
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/30/barr-coronavirus-twitter-questions/
The Justice Department offered the public a rare opportunity on Wednesday morning to submit questions to Attorney General William P. Barr for a “nationwide #AskTheAG Q&A session on May 1.” Specifically, it asked via Twitter for questions “on how DOJ is protecting public safety & combatting fraud, price gouging, hoarding, & more” during the coronavirus pandemic.
The response, as of early Thursday morning, was voluminous but surely not what the department had in mind when it asked for questions about the pandemic.
Only a fraction were even about it, and they veered off from the suggested topics, perhaps fitting at best under the “& more” category.
“If you’re considering action against Governors who don’t reopen fast enough, will you take action against those who open unsafely?”
“How does it feel defending a criminal responsible for the death of 58,471 Americans and counting?”
“What is your justification for using religion as a wedge to prevent State Governors from imposing the necessary controls to prevent the spread of Covid-19?”
But the vast majority were, to put it mildly, off-topic, and perhaps, from the Justice Department’s standpoint, off the rails, like the many variations of “When are you resigning?” and a paraphrase of the memorable question once put to Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R) of Wisconsin: “Have you no decency sir?”
Link to tweet
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