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Impeachment Inquiry Tests Ties Between Barr and Trump (NY Times)
I'm not sure how much there really is to this top of the page article in the NY Times suggesting fraying of ties between Trump and Barr, but given that Trump can't keep his eyes away from the paper he hates, he'll see it and it will probably seed more suspicion between the two. If Barr ever broke from Trump...
I'm not sure how much there really is to this top of the page article in the NY Times suggesting fraying of ties between Trump and Barr, but given that Trump can't keep his eyes away from the paper he hates, he'll see it and it will probably seed more suspicion between the two. If Barr ever broke from Trump...
Rather than publicly join the fight against House Democrats pursuing the president, Mr. Barr has remained out of the fray, resisting requests by intermediaries from Mr. Trump to go before the cameras to say no crime had been committed. While Mr. Barr exonerated the president in the spring at the end of the Russia investigation, he has been more reticent in the current matter.
The reluctance hints at a new distance between the two men, according to people who have spoken with them. Mr. Trump, angry with his coverage, is aggravated with Mr. Barr for urging him to release a reconstructed transcript of the telephone call with Ukraine’s president at the center of the impeachment drive. For his part, Mr. Barr was bothered that Mr. Trump on that call lumped him together with Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s private lawyer, like interchangeable parts of his personal defense team.