.MaddowBlog: Pres. Trump says a little more than he should have about AG Bill Barr.
Donald Trump, still feeling buoyant about the Mueller report he has not read, called into Sean Hannity’s Fox News program last night for a fairly long interview. The friendly pair covered quite a bit of ground, though these presidential comments struck me as especially notable. In reference to the special counsel’s investigation into the Russia scandal, Trump argued:
For all of this president’s flamboyant dishonesty, once in a while he shares his candid and sincere thoughts – even when that isn’t a good idea. But as notable as this is, what truly amazed me was the president’s boast that Attorney General William Barr would’ve prevented the investigation altogether. Trump sees this as a compliment. It’s not.
That’s now how the system to work in the United States, but in the president’s vision, the attorney general is supposed to serve as his lawyer, not the people’s lawyer.
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