attorney general William Barr’s short summary of Robert mueller’s report, he claims that Trump is innocent of all alleged crimes. The report says, in fact, that it is not possible to conclude that Trump is innocent. To the minister of justice chose to present the report with the misleading comments, but to consult Mueller directly, has faced a storm of criticism from legal experts in the united states.
Since the investigations against Trump has Donald Trump managed to dismiss the FBI-heads James Comey and Andrew McCabe, the minister of justice Jeff Sessions.
William Barr as attorney general. The appointment sparked protests from democrats and legal experts who saw it as an attempt by Trump to protect yourself free from all in Robert mueller’s investigation. In Washington, Barr has long been famous for arguing to extend the presidentämbetets power and legal immunity.
Barr has openly criticized mueller’s investigation, and in the summer of 2018, he wrote a report where he dismissed mueller’s focus on Trump would have been guilty of to prevent a lawsuit, one of the crimes he was suspected of.
William Barr has a long history in republican administrations in Washington. He was domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan in the White House and was appointed in 1991 as the attorney general of George HW Bush.
was Barr mainly known for the fact that he argued for expanding the presidentämbetets power and authority.
He also led a national initiative for tougher law enforcement and wrote a controversial report entitled ”the Argument to extend the fängelsebefolkningen”. During the 1990s more than doubled the number of prisoners in federal prisons in the united states, from half a million to 1.2 million.
When it came to the crimes which concerned the president’s own staff advocated Barr, however, not imprisonment. During Bush’s last weeks as president, he encouraged him to pardon the five former employees convicted of serious crimes in the extensive Iran-Contra scandal.
in order to defend a republican president. Donald Trump himself has described the president as a wall of legal immunity, which can protect him from being judged for any crime. Barr seems to share this view.
Robert Mueller could in two years, with more than 500 witnesses, not come to a definite conclusion on whether or not Donald Trump violated the law by preventing a lawsuit. For Barr, it took less than two days to decide that the Trump was innocent. Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, writes in Politico that, ”Barr’s petty argument only strengthens the image of that he decided their conclusion in advance”.
receive harsh criticism from legal experts. David Alan Sklansky, a former federal prosecutor, tells the Washington Post that Barr has absolutely wrong when he claims that there must be a proven crime in order to be able to judge someone in order to prevent a lawsuit.
According to John Dean, who was president Richard Nixon’s advisors during the Watergate scandal and who then testified against the president, would Nixon have also survived Watergate if he had had Barr as attorney general.
– After I read Barr’s memo from June 2018, where he criticized mueller’s investigation, and now his summation of mueller’s report, it is clear that Richard Nixon would not have been forced to resign if Barr had been the attorney general. Barr would like to have a president who is above the law, writes Dean in a comment on Twitter.
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