I’ve mentioned before that The Palmer Report is a guilty pleasure of mine. They usually get their facts right, though the conclusions they draw from those facts are often subject to doubt, though I will say that they their analysis of the election results has been right on. But I must take issue with this piece of reporting:
In the end, Attorney General Bill Barr turned out to be as much of a paper tiger as Palmer Report had come to suspect he was. After he tried and failed to meddle in the Flynn, Stone, Cohen, Lev, Igor, and Bannon cases, he spent the final several weeks of the election cycle simply hiding.
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This means, along with everyone else in this wretched administration, Bill Barr is now out of a job, as of January. The question now is whether Donald Trump fires him immediately out of frustration, or if Trump reluctantly keeps Barr around to try to help him with endgame pardon antics and such. But either way, Barr is a goner along with Trump before much longer
Would that the second quoted paragraph were true (Credit where due: they turned out to be right about the stuff in the first paragraph). But my guess is that come shortly after January 20, 2021 we’ll be seeing Bill Barr pulling down big bucks on Fox telling us that Joe Biden is abusing the powers of the presidency and that Biden’s attorney general, whoever that may be, is politicizing what should be a non-political position. Not an eyebrow will be raised. I put the odds of this at about 90%, with the odds of his also getting a CNN gig at 70%.
Caveat: In my last post I said I was working on a downer post that I’m putting off completing to leave time for celebration. This is not that downer post. This is just an observation. I’m still celebrating.
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