Actor John Cusack slammed Attorney General William Barr, claiming that the “rule of law is dead” until he is removed from his position.
“This Barr criminal action — is the most brazen obliteration & destruction Of rule of law I’ve seen in my lifetime,” the High Fidelity actor said on Twitter. “Flynn pleaded guilty — barr says what happened in open court didn’t happen — the rule of law is dead — unless Barr is impeached.”
This Barr criminal action – is the most brazen obliteration & destruction Of rule of law
I’ve seen in my lifetime –
Flynn pleaded guilty – barr says what happened in open court didn’t happen – the rule of law is dead – unless Barr is impeached— John Cusack (@johncusack) May 8, 2020
Cusack was responding to the Justice Department’s decision, announced Thursday afternoon, to drop the charges against former Trump national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn.
Cusack, a longtime critic of the president, was joined in his call for Barr to step down by several other celebrities and Democratic politicians, including California Sen. Kamala Harris, who accused the attorney general of “disrupting justice in America.”
Barr pushed back against his critics in an interview Friday and attempted to justify the decision to drop the charges against Flynn.
“We dismissed or are moving to dismiss the charges against Gen. Flynn,” Barr told CBS News’s Catherine Herridge. “At any stage during a proceeding, even after indictment or a conviction or a guilty plea, the department can move to dismiss the charges if we determine that our standards of prosecution have not been met.”
“As you recall, in January, Gen. Flynn moved to withdraw his plea, and also alleged misconduct by the government,” Barr continued. “And at that time, I asked a very seasoned U.S. attorney, who had spent 10 years as an FBI agent and 10 years as a career prosecutor, Jeff Jensen, from St. Louis, to come in and take a fresh look at this whole case. And he found some additional material. And last week, he came in and briefed me and made a recommendation that we dismiss the case, which I fully agreed with, as did the U.S. attorney in D.C. So, we’ve moved to dismiss the case.”
