Bill Barr

United States Attorney General

Newspaper Pack

• Barr “is up to his eyeballs in all of the corruption surrounding Trump.” -Nick Akerman, Watergate Special Prosecutor

• “A person should not be given special treatment in a criminal prosecution because they are a close political ally of the President. Governments that use the enormous power of law enforcement to punish their enemies and reward their allies are not constitutional republics; they are autocracies.” -Letter Signed by 2,600 former Justice Department officials who served in Republican and Democratic administrations, calling on Barr to resign after the department intervened in the case of Roger Stone, a longtime ally of President Trump’s

• “Attorney General Barr has once again assaulted the rule of law, this time in the case of President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn… Our democracy depends on a Department of Justice that acts as an independent arbiter of equal justice, not as an arm of the president’s political apparatus.” -Letter signed by nearly 2,000 former Justice Department officials who served in Republican and Democratic administrations, again calling on Barr to resign

• “I would like you to do us a favor though… I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people… I will ask [Rudy Giuliani] to call you along with the Attorney General… whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great… I will have Mr. Giuliani give you a call and I am also going to have Attorney General Barr call… I’m sure you will figure it out… I will tell Rudy and Attorney General Barr to call.” -Donald Trump, in call to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy

• “Even though he was named in the Ukraine whistleblower complaint, he has not recused himself from that matter.” -GQ

• “Under any conceivable ethical standard, Barr should have recused himself. But ethical standards, perhaps needless to say, mean nothing in this administration… Barr’s ethical nihilism, his utter indifference to ordinary norms of professional behavior, means that he’s retaining the authority to stop investigations into crimes he may have participated in.” -NYT

• “Judge Calls Barr’s Handling of Mueller Report ‘Distorted’ and ‘Misleading’... Mr. Barr could not be trusted, Judge Reggie B. Walton said, citing ‘inconsistencies’ between the attorney general’s statements about the report when it was secret and its actual contents that turned out to be more damaging to President Trump.” -NYT

• “Justice Dept. abandons prosecution of Russian firm indicted in Mueller election interference probe.” -WaPo

• “[Barr] clearly is protecting this president.” -Chris Wallace, Fox News

• “Barr personally ordered White House protesters gassed for Trump photo-op: report.” -Salon

Late Nite Pack

• “After impeachment ended, Barr set up a special process for his own department to do what Trump had tried to get Ukraine to do: investigate unfounded allegations of criminality by Joe Biden.” -Slate

• “What should not surprise us is William Barr continues to lie… any other Attorney General would be forced to resign.” -Joe Scarborough

• “Barr turned the Justice Department into a cover-up operation for Trump. The Trump-Ukraine scandal is only the latest in a long line of cover-ups linked to the attorney general.” -GQ

• “I don’t want to hear any crap about an independent Justice Department! This Justice Department works for the president!” -Lou Dobbs, Fox News

• “Barr sought to dissociate himself Friday from police’s move earlier this week to push back a crowd of largely peaceful demonstrators using horses and gas… ‘My attitude was get it done, but I didn’t say, ‘Go do it.’’” -WaPo

• “Who ordered the Code Red? YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT MY ATTITUDE WAS GET IT DONE BUT I DIDN’T SPECIFICALLY ORDER IT!” -Catherine Rampell

• “[Donald Barr, the father of Attorney General Bill] Barr wrote a novel filled with underage rape at the same time he was running an esteemed Manhattan high school, and he didn’t even feel the need to use a pseudonym.” -Vice

• “Mr. Barr, now the American people know that you are no different from Rudy Giuliani or Kellyanne Conway or any of the other people who sacrificed their once decent reputation for the grifter and liar who sits in the Oval Office… You lied to Congress… You should resign.” -Sen. Mazie Hirono