It’s funny how liberals and cable news talking heads insisted that Attorney General William Barr was an untrustworthy fiend acting as President Trump’s “personal lawyer” right up until he came out to say that the Justice Department had not found enough voter fraud to have made a difference in the 2020 election.
Surprise, surprise. Barr’s word is now gospel.
The attorney general said in an interview on Tuesday that his department had so far “not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” an assessment in conflict with Trump’s campaign, which continues pursuing legal fights in several states where the campaign believes illegal ballots were counted.
True, the Trump campaign has made no meaningful progress in its dubious quest to invalidate hundreds of thousands if not millions of ballots, and it probably won’t ever make such progress. But still, why is Barr suddenly a reliable authority figure?
Ruth Marcus, an editor at the Washington Post, whined in February that Barr “is going to do Trump’s bidding without having to be asked.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said last year, “I don’t trust Barr.”
The Atlantic magazine published a piece earlier this year charging that Barr was “using official violence and intimidation to help Trump win a second term.”
Rep. Adam Schiff just last month said Barr was acting as Trump’s “personal lawyer.”
Things are different, now, though. On Wednesday morning, Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York tweeted for Trump to “stop playing the victim” because “even William Barr isn’t buying it.”
So strange. It’s as if a person’s credibility is weighed solely on whether they affirm or contradict a position held by the president.
