The attorney general wishes Trump would be a little more subtle about using the Justice Department to punish his friends and spare his enemies
and send the message to the president that if he’d like the DOJ to continue to do his dirty work, he needs to stop tweeting about it.
“I’m not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody,” Barr insisted to ABC News chief justice correspondent“Whether it’s Congress, a newspaper editorial board, or the president. I’m gonna do what I think is right. And you know...I cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me.
Barr also told ABC he was “a little surprised” that the entire Stone prosecution team had resigned from the case—and one from the DOJ entirely—which presumably has something to do with the fact that after using your department to do the president’s bidding for so long, you sometimes forget that other people will take issue with such behavior.
Asked if he expected Trump to react to his criticism of the tweets, Barr responded: “I hope he will react.”“Yes,” Barr said. You hear that, Mr. President? Let the man turn the judicial branch into your own personal score-settling operation in peace!
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