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If William P. Barr had been the first attorney general in the Trump administration, the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election would have met an early end, President Trump said Friday.
“He would have stopped it immediately,” Trump declared in an appearance on Fox News.
Now, legal observers say, the country’s top law enforcement official seems to be giving his boss the next best thing: unwinding and discrediting the work done by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
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Barr’s attacks on Mueller’s investigation reached a pinnacle Thursday, when he decided the Justice Department would ask a judge to erase the guilty plea of Michael Flynn and dismiss the case against the former national security adviser. Flynn was one of the first people to admit criminal wrongdoing and cooperate in Mueller’s inquiry.
The attorney general’s move, analysts say, is part of a pattern of his personally intervening in special counsel cases involving the president’s allies, over the apparent objection of the career prosecutors assigned to the matters.
Barr has repeatedly turned to U. S. attorneys to conduct special inquiries on matters of interest to Trump, including to explore aspects of Mueller’s work. In February, he intervened to reduce prosecutors’ sentencing recommendation for Trump confidant Roger Stone after the president tweeted about the case. Stone was charged with obstructing Congress in the final case brought by Mueller and was convicted in a trial last year.
“Clearly, it’s a systematic undoing of the whole Mueller investigation, and it’s thinly veiled,” said Ryan Fayhee, a former Justice Department counterespionage prosecutor now in private practice at Hughes Hubbard.
