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
(31,112 posts)agingdem
(7,850 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
(70,227 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)Because laughable as the claim is, it is not funny....
blm
(113,061 posts)jrthin
(4,836 posts)iamateacher
(1,089 posts)Tell me another one
sop
(10,187 posts)Did anyone actually expect him to say he was acting in Trump's interests to subvert and obstruct justice?
Rural_Progressive
(1,105 posts)it doesn't count as lying.
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Barr and Trump are like siamese twins, joined at the felonious maximus.
ashredux
(2,606 posts)cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)kimbutgar
(21,153 posts)He is an ugly repulsive liar.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)dhill926
(16,339 posts)asshole...
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Oh, thats rich.
-Laelth
Hugin
(33,148 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
(26,291 posts)ResistantAmerican17
(3,809 posts)onetexan
(13,041 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)Chrysanthemum
(188 posts)And I'm the Queen of Romania.
(Lifted from Dorothy Parker.)
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)NNadir
(33,521 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
(23,102 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
(14,907 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