Okay, William Barr, perhaps my least favorite attorney, has suddenly surprised me, via a cryptic “statement” to the Associated Press, that the AP, in its story, quotes in fragments—fragments that are, nonetheless quite welcome to the ear. Says the AP
Former Attorney General William Barr says President Donald Trump’s conduct as a violent mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol was a “betrayal of his office and supporters.”
In a statement to The Associated Press, Barr said Thursday that “orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress is inexcusable.”
Did Barr just send the AP this statement out of the blue? Did the AP call him up? Did Barr say anything other than these two phrases? Dunno, dunno, and dunno. But it’s good that someone so close to Trump, and in the past so grotesquely obsequious in the service of his master’s basest wishes, would finally rebel, not just silently, but openly and even harshly. Perhaps this may embolden a few nervous Nellies amongst the Republican ranks to say out loud what they’ve supposedly been saying in private for the past four years.
Barr has amazingly cut the strings attached to his puppet limbs held by Trump’s tiny hands.