My “this summary execution was necessary to uphold the rule of law” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
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Bill Barr has issued a statement about the killing of Michael Reinoehl that passes over the killing itself in one quick sentence:
When evaluating this statement, it is important to remember that Barr is 1)an authoritarian and 2)a massive liar:
Like that time in July when he said a surge of federal agents sent to Kansas City had made 200 arrests in two weeks, which was false. /2https://t.co/P5yrIIzhUc pic.twitter.com/b8UnMjIRtU— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) September 4, 2020
Like that time in April when he told Fox News that an inspector general Trump had fired, Michael Atkinson, tried to send the Ukraine whistleblower complaint to Congress without exec branch review and ignored DOJ, which was false. /4 https://t.co/SZYgwAQccZ— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) September 4, 2020
And of course there was his description to the public of the then-still secret Mueller investigation report, which a federal judge said was so “distorted” and “misleading” that the judiciary could not trust his DOJ to be candid on that topic. /6 https://t.co/0Bz9N6BcYS— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) September 4, 2020
This statement — starting with emphasizing the “tracking down” rather than the killing — is particularly redolent of his dishonest portrayal of the Mueller Report. If any serious effort was made to take Reinoehl alive it would be a massive upset at this point.
If Trump loses a lot of elite Republicans are going to try to no-true-Scotsman him, but the problem is that Barr is as establishment as they come and fully embodies Donald Trump’s falangist values.