William Barr's memo to Trump last year condemned the Mueller probe as "fatally misconceived."
And now he's saying that Trump wasn't guilty of collusion or obstruction and withholding the actual report.
So Trump got the AG he was hoping for.
This article was written in December.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/20/trumps-attorney-general-pick-looks-more-more-like-an-anti-mueller-zealot/?utm_term=.9b83b01f216d
News broke Wednesday night that William Barr had written an unsolicited 20-page memo to DOJ arguing that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s obstruction of justice investigation was not just unwarranted but “grossly irresponsible,” “fatally misconceived” and carried “potentially disastrous implications.”
The former attorney general, who held that job in the George H.W. Bush administration, reportedly disclosed the memo to Trump after Trump nominated him for his old job, noting that it was likely to come up in his confirmation hearing.
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The memo was extremely detailed and — perhaps most importantly — unsolicited. Here was a man who went to the trouble of rhetorically dismantling one entire half of Mueller’s probe, of his own volition. And the language used is not muted. “Grossly irresponsible,” “fatally misconceived,” and “potentially disastrous implications” are the words of someone who feels strongly that this is a miscarriage of justice. They are the words of a zealot who would seem to do whatever was in his power to hamstring that portion of Mueller’s probe. After all Barr, in his own estimation, would be preventing a disaster for American government. Barr isn’t just saying Trump is innocent; he’s saying the entire underpinning of the investigation is wrong and perhaps illegal.
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