Trump begs William Barr to save him, revealing weakness and panic

[Zorro]

Opinion by Greg Sargent

It’s a perverse paradox of the 2020 election. On one front after another, President Trump has been extraordinarily brazen about his efforts to corrupt the election on his own behalf. And it’s precisely because of this shamelessness that his schemes keep imploding on him.

Trump just went on “Fox & Friends” and called on Attorney General William P. Barr to launch some kind of investigation into the new pseudo-scandal involving Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s laptop that Trump and his propagandists have been hyping of late.

But Trump managed to do this in such a remarkably corrupt and blatant way that it almost certainly ensures that this scheme, too, will backfire — even if Barr might have been inclined to carry it out for Trump.

Asked on Fox about the possibility of some kind of special prosecutor looking at this whole affair, Trump said: “We’ve gotta get the attorney general to act. And he’s gotta act fast. He’s gotta appoint somebody.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/20/trump-begs-william-barr-save-him-revealing-weakness-panic/

[Cirque du So-What]

1. How will this 'damsel in distress' act play with MAGAts?

Must be embarrassing for a bunch of yahoos whose identity depends on machismo so bigly.

[EarlG]

2. Barr is his Roy Cohn

January 2018:

This past week brought a series of stunning reports about President Trump and his White House, reports some Americans found hard to believe. But one quote attributed to the president should have surprised no one: the one in The New York Times where the president asked, "Where's my Roy Cohn?"

In a moment of crisis, the president cried out for the man from Trump's past whom the Times described as his "personal lawyer and fixer." Far more than that, Cohn was a legendary and controversial attorney who pushed legal tactics to the limits for a dazzling array of clients — from senators to mobsters and high rollers in sports and entertainment.

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/07/576209428/president-trump-called-for-roy-cohn-but-roy-cohn-was-gone