Dear John,
Earlier this month, Attorney General Bill Barr took to ABC News to defend his blatant corruption of the Justice Department, saying that Trump’s tweets “make it impossible for me to do my job.”
But anyone who has watched Barr repeatedly roll over for Trump saw this as a minimal face-saving gesture.
Barr most recently came under fire for intervening in the sentencing of Trump's longtime advisor and confidante, Roger Stone.
But Barr has been a loyal soldier for Trump's attack on the rule of law for much longer.
Our latest video breaks down all the ways Barr is helping Trump turn our democracy into a dictatorship.
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Attorney General Bill Barr has turned the DOJ into Trump's stooge.
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Trump says he has the “legal right” to meddle in cases handled by the Justice Department.
That’s wrong. If a president can punish enemies and reward friends through the administration of justice, there can be no justice.
Justice requires impartial and equal treatment under the law. Partiality or inequality in deciding whom to prosecute and how to punish is tyranny. Plain and simple.
A half-century ago I witnessed the near dissolution of justice under President Nixon. I served in the Justice Department when a bipartisan Congress resolved that what had occurred would never happen again.
But what occurred under Nixon is happening again.
Like Nixon, Trump has usurped the independence of the Department of Justice for his own ends.
But unlike Nixon, Trump won’t resign.
He has too many enablers – not just a shameful Attorney General but also shameless congressional Republicans – who place a lower priority on justice than on satisfying the most vindictive and paranoid occupant of the White House in modern American history.
One ABC News interview, conducted only to give the appearance of impartiality, doesn’t make up for the myriad ways Attorney General Bill Barr has corrupted the Justice Department and willfully abetted Trump’s lawlessness.
For the sake of our democracy, he must resign immediately.
Thanks for watching,
Robert Reich
Inequality Media Civic Action
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