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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWas William Barr unemployed prior to becoming Attorney General?
Was Barr looking for employment?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,030 posts)He probably took a large pay cut to come to work for Trump, so his motivation remains a mystery.
Jarqui
(10,131 posts)Which is not terribly different than what Trump's buddies at the National Enquirer did with stories they buried.
I suspect they got to Rosenstein as well.
It is their modus operandi going back to Sally Yates' concern about Flynn and the Steele dossier.
maxsolomon
(33,475 posts)He wants to save Trump's presidency, because he values the GOP's grip on power, and he believes he knows how to do it.
There's no Kompromat, or promise of lucrative payoff down the line. He's a true believer and party loyalist. He's doing it to stop Dems.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,030 posts)The fact that he sent a long, unsolicited memo to the WH explaining his legal theory about the unitary executive indicates he really wanted the job. It just surprises me that even despite his extreme ideology he'd want to roll in Trump's shit.
UTUSN
(70,810 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)several US Companies doing business in Russia. Not heard if he every resigned those positions.
WhiteTara
(29,739 posts)you know, the one that communicated with trump towers and Spectrum Health. His son works in the Justice Department and his daughter works in Fin Cen, so they are sucking up all their daddy's crimes into never to be found files.