Barr: "We have to stop using the Justice Department as a political weapon."

[Miles Archer]

He's getting really agitated.

Asked if he would recuse himself from any of the ongoing investigations spun off from the Mueller report, he immediately snapped back "NO!"

[Iliyah]

1. He just confirmed what he is

actually doing for shithole.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Seriously? He said that?

He's completely weaponized the DoJ to help Trump.

[Miles Archer]

7. Not only did he say that...

...I always have closed captioning on, so I read the caption after I typed it to make sure I posted an exact quote.

He was extremely pissed off over extended questioning over whether he has discussed the ongoing cases with the White House.

It went from "I can't recall" to saying he had no "substantive" conversations and then refusing to confirm or deny if he had ANY conversations that "weren't substantive."

[blogslut]

3. He Judge Dredd

I mean really, that was some "I AM THE LAW" bullshit.

[PA Democrat]

4. Tell your buddy Donald Trump, Barr.

[Paladin]

5. You first, motherfucker. (nt)

[duforsure]

6. Trumps got him using the same tactics he uses

And Putin uses in russia. That's exactly what they're doing then claiming its others. Watch how long before Barr goes after all of trumps opposition, especially Hillary for trump and for putin, then trump will start his threats to Biden he's corrupt and his past should be looked into by Barr, again using anything he can and lie about to go after him with. Barr has probably already got people trying to dig up dirt for trump to use against others

[Azathoth]

8. Jeffrey Toobin nailed it. Barr's a true believer

We take it for granted that these clowns are aware deep down that they're thoroughly corrupt Trump-enablers prostituting themselves for partisan gain, but the truth is a lot of them really do live in a Fox bubble where any threat to Trump, including from their own departments, is actually some global partisan coup conspiracy.

Barr isn't just a Republican apparatchik. He's an enthusiastic Trump cultist. He doesn't just serve the Kool-Aid, he also takes the first sip.

[moondust]

9. Is he confused?

The elephant in the room always using the Justice Department and everything else as a "political weapon" is his Dear Leader Donny.

The strategery seems to be: turn everything into a simple binary political fight between the red team good guys and the blue team bad guys and thus eliminate the rule of law as a factor.

[Wounded Bear]

10. He's not confused, he's projecting...

What he means is that he wants to stop Democrats from politicizing the DoJ. Of course in order to do that, he has to weaponize it against Dems. The fact that the Dems are not actually doing that is irrelevant.

See? Completely logical.