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Bill Barr 'Bout To Bug Out, You Betcha

Yeah, tell us another.

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This weekend the New York Times reported that Attorney General Bill Barr is taking his ball and going home. Maybe!

Three sources told reporters that Barr “could announce his departure before the end of the year,” possibly because he “concluded that he had completed the work that he set out to accomplish at the Justice Department.”

Ah, yes. Mission accomplished, job well done, etc. It’s got nothing to do with Trump’s fury that his trusted henchman failed to find evidence of rampant voter fraud, on top of his unforgivable slowness in arresting all the liberals for the RUSSIA HOAX.

Trump’s people have planted a wave of stories suggesting that Trump is about to fire Barr, with the president himself responding “Ask me that in a number of weeks from now,” when NBC’s Kristen Welker asked if he had confidence in the AG.

And still Barr’s allies insist that their old buddy “had been weighing his departure since before last week and that Mr. Trump had not affected the attorney general’s thinking.”

CNN confirmed that Barr is eying the exits, but their source was more frank. Apparently, the AG is royally pissed that Trump and his esteemed campaign lawyers have been talking smack about Barr’s failure to understand their brilliant legal strategy.

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Barr “is not someone who takes bullying and turns the other cheek!” CNN reports, although their source concedes that “He has not made a final decision.”

Astute observers will note that, regardless of his “final decision,” Barr, like Trump, will be out of a job anyway in 44 days. But now Fox is reporting that the AG will stay put “as long as the president needs him,” i.e. January 20 or until he gets fired by mean tweet, whichever comes first.

All of which makes Barr’s reported Hamlet-ing even more preposterous. To leave in three weeks or six, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous tweeting, or take arms against a sea of MAGA loons calling for my head, and by opposing end them.

Of course, it won’t end them. With the president openly accusing him of dereliction, Barr’s got a target on his back now with everyone who thinks that the Justice Department deliberately ignored evidence of a massive criminal conspiracy to steal the election.

“They should be looking at all of this fraud. This is not civil. He thought it was civil,” Trump told NBC. “This is not civil. This is criminal stuff. This is very bad, criminal stuff.” And where Trump’s verbal diarrhea goes, the wingnutosphere will follow.

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“He is either a liar or a fool or both. He may be — perhaps compromised,” Fox’s Lou Dobbs said last week of the AG.

“Bill Barr’s job was to block for the Deep State, which is why the Durham ploy was quite clever,” rasped Roger Stone, who personally benefited from Barr’s direct interference in his case. “Mr. Durham has taken three years to produce nothing whatsoever when he has overwhelming evidence of both treason and crime.” Of course, Roger Stone also thinks that Kim Jong Un sent a boat full of fraudulent ballots to Maine via the famed Pyongyang-Bangor route. So, consider the source.

There’s also whatever this is.

Guess Bill Barr’s off Judge Jeanine’s Christmas card list. Sad!

Lie down with dogs …

Barr Is Said to Be Weighing Whether to Leave Before Trump’s Term Ends [NYT]

Elizabeth Dye (@5DollarFeminist) lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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