Normally the answer to a question like this by the Attorney General is a simple “Of course not and I’m offended on the president’s behalf…
Normally the answer to a question like this by the Attorney General is a simple “Of course not and I’m offended on the president’s behalf that you’d ask. The DOJ isn’t a political weapon for the White House.” Barr ends up having to resort to a Clintonism to wriggle out of it: Clearly some unnamed person (ahem) has raised the idea with him of siccing the DOJ on some other unnamed person but it seems the idea wasn’t pressed so insistently that Barr would say it amounted to a “suggestion.”
Which reminds me of Trump’s conversation with James Comey about Mike Flynn. “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go,” Trump allegedly said at the time, according to Comey. Was that a “suggestion”? Absolutely, Comey would say. Barr, clearly much more favorably disposed to Trump, might answer, “Well, he never explicitly *asked* Comey to let Flynn go.”
There’s no mystery as to whom Harris has in mind:
Never seen such Republican ANGER & UNITY as I have concerning the lack of investigation on Clinton made Fake Dossier (now $12,000,000?),….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29,2017
…the Uranium to Russia deal, the 33,000 plus deleted Emails, the Comey fix and so much more. Instead they look at phony Trump/Russia,….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29,2017
…»collusion,» which doesn’t exist.
