Telling the liberal press what they want to hear, 72-year-old former Trump Atty. Gen. Bill Barr said he thinks 70-year-old Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland may have a case against for obstruction of justice on classified docs. Since leaving his post Dec. 23, 2020, Barr has switched from once loyal defender of 76-year-old former President Donald Trump to legal expert, speculating about Trump’s crimes. When it comes to Mar-a-Lago classified documents seized in an FBI raid Aug. 8, 2022, Barr thinks the government may have an obstruction case against Trump. Once called Trump’s “lap-dog” by the press, Barr won back credibility attacking Trump in the liberal media. Conjecturing like everyone else, Barr doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about when it comes to Garland’s possible charges against the former president. Yet the media likes to hear Barr opine against his former boss.
When it comes to 49-year-old Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s 34 felony case against Trump, Barr shows more skepticism. ”I found what’s been put out, very opaque. An I think if he has a good case he would specify exactly what his case is, but he’s trying to hide the ball,” Barr told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week.” When it comes to the Mar-a-Lago classified docs case against Trump, Barr thinks there’s a better chance of serious charges. “I think that’s a serious potential case. I think they have some pretty good evidence there,” Barr said about Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland’s case against Trump. Barr told Stephanopoulos. Barr said Trump played games since leaving office with classified docs, “He had no claim to those documents, especially classified documents. It belonged to the government,” Bar said. “I think he was jerking the government around.”
Barr had his run-ins with Trump, especially over the Russian hoax investigations, where Barr eventually appointed, before he left his post, former U.S. Atty. John Durham (R-Conn.) to get to the bottom of the DOJ and FBI’s counterintelligence investigations of Trump and his 2016 campaign. Barr promised Trump he would find out who in the Obama White House authorized a FBI couterintelligence investigation. Trump was frustrated with Barr for waiting too long to investigate the government illegal spying on Trump and his 2016 campaign. Barr sat idly by while Special Counsel Robert Mueller spent 22-months, $40 million investigating Trump’s allege ties to the Kremlin. When Mueller found no ties in his March 23, 2019 final report, Barr didn’t investigate the government’s fake case against Trump. Once Trump lost the 2020 election, Barr dropped the ball on any investigations.
Democrats have unloaded their clip on Trump with the first bullets coming from Bragg’s April 1 indictment. Charging Trump with 34 felonies, usually charged as misdemeanors, even Barr admits the case isn’t too strong. Barr has no comment on how Bragg upgraded usually misdemeanor bookkeeping charges to felonies, a clear sign that political bias is at play. Bragg ran for Manhattan DA in 2021 promising, unlike his predecessor Cyrus Vance Jr., he’d get Trump. Bragg took money from Democrat donor George Soros. Soros gave $1 million to the Color of Change Pac that supported Bragg’s candidacy as Manhattan DA. With so much political bias from Bragg, how can anyone take his charges seriously? Yet Barr has no comment about how Bragg upgraded the charges against Trump to Class E felonies, when bookkeeping infractions are normally charged as misdemeanors. Barr’s comments about Garland’s case against Trump aren’t helpful at all.
Knowing Bragg’s boasts during in 2021 campaign about getting Trump and taking money from Democrat donor George Soros you’d think was reason enough for Judge Juan Merchan to throw out Bragg’s case. Yet questions about Mercha donating to Biden’s campaign also raise doubts about his neutrality. When it comes to Bragg upgrading ordinary misdemeanor charges to Class E felonies, the 49-year-old DA certainly took liberties to charge Trump with more serious crimes. Political grandstanding should not be part of the criminal justice system. Trump has been persecuted for years by an active conspiracy in the Obama administration to help former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton get elected in 2016. Pressing fake charges of Trump’s alleged ties to the Kremlin using her discredited Steele dossier shows the extent of government corruption against Trump.
Barr’s career came to a screeching halt when he resigned from his post before Trump left office. Ever since, he’s joined the publicity-seeking ranks of anti-Trump Republicans like Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Ut.) welcomed on Democrat circles to attack Trump. “The government is investigating the extent to which games were played and there was obstruction in keeping the documents from them. I think that’s a serious potential case. I think they probably have some very good evidence there,” Bar said about Garland’s case. Trump’s attorney responsible for handling Mar-a-Lago documents Jim Trusty said the case for obstruction is “nonsense.” Garland is “desperately trying to an obstruction case that just isn’t there,” Trusty told NBC’s “Meet the Press” today. All the effort to show Trump committed crimes proves that charging decisions are all drive by politics.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
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