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How did I miss this?!? Corruption overload, I guess.
Bill Barr To Become Caporegime With Own Family Within Trump Crime FamilyDaughter and son-in-law to take key positions protecting Trump from ever facing justice.
By Elie Mystal February 14, 2019
The Matt Whitaker era has served its purpose. As a transition from Confederate Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Whitaker’s illegal appointment, dull wits, and open contempt for the rule of law served to set the bar exceedingly low for his permanent replacement.
That replacement will be William Barr, who was just confirmed by the Senate. Barr will be better than Whitaker simply by dint of his ability to distinguish “a Congressional hearing” from “an episode of NYPD Blue half-watched while waiting in concussion protocol.”
But just because Barr is performatively normal when plotted against Matt Whitaker’s Kingpin cosplay, doesn’t mean Barr is a “good” guy. His job, the only job he seems committed to executing, will be to protect Trump from the Mueller investigation, without committing abuses of power so obvious that the mainstream media notices the corruption.
Barr will sound “normal,” but his actions are already keeping in with Trump’s mafia-style approach to staffing government. From CNN:
Mary Daly, Barr’s oldest daughter and the director of Opioid Enforcement and Prevention Efforts in the deputy attorney general’s office, is leaving for a position at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit, a Justice official said.
Tyler McGaughey, the husband of Barr’s youngest daughter, has been detailed from the powerful US attorney’s office in Alexandria, Virginia, to the White House counsel’s office, two officials said.
Tyler McGaughey, the husband of Barr’s youngest daughter, has been detailed from the powerful US attorney’s office in Alexandria, Virginia, to the White House counsel’s office, two officials said.
Placing your family members in key positions to protect the president is not what a “normal” attorney general does, I don’t care how “regular” Barr sounds on T.V.
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https://abovethelaw.com/2019/02/bill-barr-nepotism-corruption/
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