Barr's immediate future

Attorney General William P. Barr is considering stepping down before President Trump’s term ends next month.

  NYT

Like it's up to him.

Trump suggested in an interview on Nov. 29 that the Justice Department and the F.B.I. might have been “involved” in some sort of election fraud.

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It was not clear whether the attorney general’s deliberations were influenced by Mr. Trump’s refusal to concede his election loss or his fury over Mr. Barr’s acknowledgment last week that the Justice Department uncovered no widespread voting fraud.

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One of the people insisted that Mr. Barr had been weighing his departure since before last week and that Mr. Trump had not affected the attorney general’s thinking.

Sure.

Another said Mr. Barr had concluded that he had completed the work that he set out to accomplish at the Justice Department.

So he'd quit a few weeks before his term would be up anyway? How stupid do we look? If he quits, it will be to avoid being fired.

Throughout the presidential campaign, Mr. Barr was among the loudest voices warning that mail-in ballots would result in mass election fraud. He routinely claimed in speeches and interviews that the potential for widespread voter fraud was high and posed a grave danger. Mr. Barr’s claims were sometimes false or exaggerated and were widely refuted.

“I don’t have empirical evidence other than the fact that we’ve always had voting fraud. And there always will be people who attempt to do that,” Mr. Barr said in September. He called his conclusions “common sense.”

And after the election, Mr. Barr opened the door to politically charged election fraud investigations, authorizing federal prosecutors to investigate “specific allegations” of voter fraud before results were certified. Typically, the Justice Department waits until after vote totals are certified to investigate such suspicions in order to avoid shaking public confidence in elections.

We'll be happy to see the asshole go.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.