Attorney General Barr Says DOJ Acts Independent Of Trump Interests
Source: NPR
Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that he didn't believe President Trump has overstepped the boundaries between the White House and the Justice Department in a number of big recent cases.
Barr told NPR in a wide-ranging interview that he believes Trump has "supervisory authority" to oversee the effective course of justice but Barr said ultimately, the choices were made and carried through independently by the Justice Department.
"It's very important that the attorney general make sure that there's no political influence at stake involved in that and there wasn't," Barr said.
NPR's Steve Inskeep asked Barr about the case of former national security adviser Mike Flynn, in which the Justice Department dropped charges even after Flynn's guilty plea; about the firing of U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman in New York City; and others.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/25/883278573/attorney-general-barr-says-doj-acts-independent-of-trump-interests
Transcript of the full interview is here.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)he lies constantly, breaks rules and laws, and covers up for shithole on a daily basis.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)agingdem
(7,858 posts)no political influence...independent..uh huh...to quote Inigo Montoya.."You keep saying those words. I don't think it means what you think it means"..
riversedge
(70,304 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)Because laughable as the claim is, it is not funny....
blm
(113,091 posts)jrthin
(4,837 posts)iamateacher
(1,089 posts)Tell me another one
sop
(10,251 posts)Did anyone actually expect him to say he was acting in Trump's interests to subvert and obstruct justice?
Rural_Progressive
(1,107 posts)it doesn't count as lying.
onecaliberal
(32,897 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Barr and Trump are like siamese twins, joined at the felonious maximus.
ashredux
(2,609 posts)cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)kimbutgar
(21,192 posts)He is an ugly repulsive liar.
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)dhill926
(16,356 posts)asshole...
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Oh, thats rich.
-Laelth
Hugin
(33,207 posts)Larry Moecurley
(72 posts)ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)That we all know he's lying. He thinks he's untouchable and that DOES make me uneasy.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)ResistantAmerican17
(3,825 posts)onetexan
(13,060 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,653 posts)Chrysanthemum
(188 posts)And I'm the Queen of Romania.
(Lifted from Dorothy Parker.)
EarthFirst
(2,905 posts)sakabatou
(42,174 posts)Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)NNadir
(33,547 posts)...he thinks everyone in the country is as stupid as his mob boss.
Barr should die in prison for his contempt for the rule of law.
lark
(23,156 posts)He swore personal and professional fealty to drumpf, and only drumpf and knows he's the only person keeping drumpf and himself out of jail. He is all in on the criminality and trason. I want to see him in jail along with the entire drumpf klan, including the prince of darkness and toy of course.
llashram
(6,265 posts)to say. I love Trump for giving me the power over people with my fascist and corrupt views. I will kiss his ass until I'm six feet under and then in HELL afterwards.
Kid Berwyn
(14,962 posts)Q: What instruction, if any, has the president given you about assuring a secure election in 2020?
A: About what?
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/25/883273933/transcript-nprs-full-interview-with-attorney-general-william-barr