.MaddowBlog: Why AG Barr's Trump 'rebuke' is so hard to take seriously
interpretation, which suggests Barr's apparent rebuke wasn't a sincere effort to restore propriety to the federal justice system, but rather, was the attorney general's way of telling the White House that Trump is making it more difficult for Barr to corrupt the federal justice system.
Even stripped of all context, taking the attorney general's words at face value is difficult given his strained credibility andBut the closer one looks, the more difficult it is to take the attorney general's apparent concerns seriously. Barr said yesterday that he's finding it difficult to do his"job," which necessarily raises the question of exactly what he considers his job to be.
Barr appears to have intervened in multiple cases in order to help the president and his associates. The more Trump brags about this, the bigger the controversy, and the harder it is for the attorney general to keep helping the president and his associates. By this reasoning, Barr wants Trump to stop tweeting about the Justice Department and ongoing criminal proceedings because. The attorney general wants his actions to unfold in the shadows, and the tweets make the entire scheme obvious.
For Barr, Trump's tweets are not themselves the problem. It's the effects of the tweets that are the problem.
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