Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Burnett: Barr repeating what we've all heard from Trump" video.

  1. This cover-up by Trump, Barr, and republicans, is worse than the failed cover-up of Watergate. Trump is at war with America, it's justice department, it's intelligence agencies, it's rule of law, it's free press, and it's Constitution. Barr is the same morally bankrupt stooge that he's always been. Barr served as Attorney General in the Bush administration from late 1991 to early 1993. Most notably, Barr railed publicly against a long running independent counsel's Iran-Contra investigation of the Reagan-Bush administration, and Barr fully supported President Bush’s last minute pardon of Caspar Weinberger, Reagan’s former defense secretary. Weinberger had been indicted on five felony charges, including accusations that he obstructed federal investigations and lied to Congress about the Iran-Contra affair. Barr also supported Bush's pardoning of 5 administration officials who had been found guilty of crimes involving Iran-Contra. Hearing of Weinberger being pardoned, Judge Lawrence Walsh, the independent counsel investigating Iran-Contra, issued a statement of condemnation: “President Bush’s pardon…undermines the principle that no man is above the law. It demonstrates that powerful people with powerful allies can commit serious crimes in high office—deliberately abusing the public trust without consequence." It appears that history is repeating itself.  "Its like Deja vu, all over again."
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  2. How can Barr question the conduct, integrity, or biases of investigators, when he showed his complete loyalty to Trump by writing an unsolicited 19 page memo defending Trump, and attacking the Mueller investigation? That alone should have disqualified him from being nominated as the AG. It definitely was more than enough to justify him recusing himself from overseeing the Mueller investigation. But that would require integrity, of which he has none.
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