John Oliver is tearing Attorney General Bill Barr apart, pointing out he is “one of the more dangerous figures in the Trump administration.”
“If Trump gets a second term, Barr is only going to be more dangerous going forward.”
On Last Week Tonight Oliver said:
When it comes to playing defense for Trump, Barr has been relentless. He famously provided an exculpatory summary of Mueller’s report weeks before making it publicly available and since then his DOJ has suggested a lighter sentence for Roger Stone, he’s trying to drop the charges against Michael Flynn, who remember had pled guilty. Removed an attorney from office who was investigating Trump’s associates, sued John Bolton to try to stop the release of his book, and at one point tried to have the U.S. government replace Trump as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit arising from Trump’s statement that a woman who accused him of rape ‘was not my type.’ All of which is definitely what the founding fathers had in mind when they drafted article two. So you can see when some have argued that Barr is his dream AG. But more interestingly Trump may also be Barr’s dream president. Someone that is the ideal vessel for Barr’s decades-long pursuit of a unitary executive. Trump may also give Barr a chance to push his uncompromising moral vision onto the rest of the country.”
Watch the segment above.