What Happened at Attorney General Barr’s Five-Hour House Hearing

Attorney General William Barr should have had a lot of explaining to do. Political theater mostly happened instead. Photo: Matt McClain-Pool/Getty Images Attorney General William Barr finally appeared before the House Judiciary Committee in a long-awaited and oft-delayed hearing on Tuesday. It lasted five hours, which afforded Democrats and Republicans on the committee numerous opportunities to grandstand for or against Barr and the Trump administration on numerous issues.

[Barr] did little to refute the criticism that Trump’s personal desires influence him. In his efforts to defend himself, Barr painted Trump as the consummate professional president, giving Barr “complete freedom” to do what he needs. “From my experience, the president has played a role properly and traditionally played by presidents,” Barr testified.

As expected, Barr defended his deployment of federal agents to suppress unrest Barr claimed that the nightly demonstrations outside the a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon “cannot reasonably be called a protest,” claiming that the demonstrations were “by any objective measure, an assault on the government of the United States.

Barr also said that he had “no reason to think” the election would be rigged, which the president has been repeatedly suggesting, and that he thinks “we have to assume” that Russia is once again attempting to interfere. He also dodged a question, from Democratic representative Cedric Richmond, on whether or not he believed that Trump has the authority to move Election Day — responding that he had “never been asked the question before” and had “never looked into it as attorney general.

When Democratic representative Debbie Murcasel-Powell asked Barr if he would commit to withholding the report until after the election, he replied, “No.” He also reiterated, as he had said earlier this year, that he did not expect the investigation to lead to criminal indictments of either Obama or Biden. Notes Politico:

During a heated exchange with Democratic representative Hank Johnson, Barr claimed that he did not discuss his more lenient sentencing recommendation “with anyone at the White House.”

Grandstanding Democrats I guess you guys are just used to Jim_Jordan ‘Shaqtin’ A Fool’ during any hearing that he partakes in.. And replouiegohmert & the mouth from Georgia...are all just background noise? Or do you just ignore the HouseGOP & their conspiracy theories?

Thanks for 'splaining that NYM...move along, nothing to see here...

And what is this supposed to accomplish? All jaw and no teeth.

Grandstanding? Who wrote this idiotic tweet?

Plenty about how corrupt he is though

Grandstanding is the the wrong word. Did you mean “standing their ground” ?

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