Attorney General Bill Barr announced on Monday that he is resigning only weeks before the inevitable demise of the Trump presidency.
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Monday was a day packed with major news stories unlike any in recent memory:
- The Electoral College officially declared Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election, defeating Donald Trump’s bid to destroy democracy for his own personal gain.
- Thousands of first responders across America began receiving the first doses of the newly approved COVID vaccine, following a 9-months long pandemic that has seen more than 300,000 deaths in the US alone.
- GOP Congressman Paul Mitchell of Michigan formally quit the Republican party and became an Independent, saying he was sickened to see his fellow party members sit back and do nothing as Donald Trump set fire to the US constitution.
- And Attorney General Bill Barr told the world he wanted off the SS Trump Titanic and will step aside effective December 23rd.
For years, the Trump-Barr bromance was a match made in heaven. Trump would come up with bizarre and illegal bullshit to exact on the American people and it was up to Bill Barr to tie up the legal loose ends and implement it. Barr ran roughshod for Trump during his contentious impeachment hearings. He even attempted to use the US Justice Department as Trump’s personal attorney when ‘The Donald’ was recently the subject of a sexual assault lawsuit. Still, even Barr couldn’t continue to pretend he was sans a spine or testicles when Trump presented case after case of meritless legal challenges in order to overturn the election.
However, the very moment Attorney General Bill Barr stopped doing Donald’s bidding is the very moment the vindictive Trump was already looking for ways to fire him. Like so many other court jesters before him, you either did what King Donald wanted to be done or it was off with your head. Barr saw the writing on the wall. He also saw the SS Titanic Trump sinking fast.
With Trump planning to issue an unprecedented number of controversial presidential pardons before being kicked out of the Oval Office, Barr was smart enough to realize he didn’t want history to connect his name to Donald Trump’s during the waning weeks of his presidency. He also wanted no connection to Trump’s sketchy cash grab donation scheme of pretending to conduct a fake “Stop The Steal” election fraud battle while collecting millions of dollars in donations from dumb MAGA fanatics (money that will go directly into Trump’s pocket). So, Barr smartly jumped ship.
Still, his resignation letter — which was more like a love letter — was so sappy and sugary it was almost diabetic.
“I am proud to have played a role in the many successes and unprecedented achievements you have delivered for the American people,” Barr wrote. “Your 2016 victory speech in which you reached out to your opponents and called for working together for the benefit of the American people was immediately met by a partisan onslaught against you in which no tactic, no matter how abusive and deceitful, was out of bounds.”
Oh, be still, my heart!
“Few could have weathered these attacks, much less forge ahead with a positive program for the country,” he continued — and then the dusty bootlicking and “acquiesced” ass-kissing went on and on from there.
Bill Barr is leaving his post just before Christmas — and it looks as if Donald Trump may be leaving (and not returning to Washington) right along with him. So, what gives?
Did Attorney General Bill Barr get fed up with The Donald Trump Show and turn in his ‘Trump Flunkie’ card out of a newfound allegiance to democracy? Or did he resign on Monday in order to save his own reputation just in time for the history books?
Great summary DJ. You nailed the most pertinent points.
Trump’s “Roy Cohn” reached a line in that sh*tshow presidency that even HE’s not willing to cross. He resigned yesterday in order to try to save what’s left of his disgraceful reputation “just in time for the history books.”
And yet, even as he carried out that act he surrendered the tattered remnants of his manhood, slobbering all over himself in that letter with FAKE praise for Trump’s imaginary accomplishments. Embarrassing and pathetic.
William Pelham Barr. Worst U.S. Attorney General in American history.