Barr is doing exactly what he came to do: Protecting Trump | By eliehonig for CNNOpinion
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From day one on the job as Attorney General of the United States, William Barr has been prejudiced against the possibility that President Donald Trump committed crimes. I mean"prejudiced" in the most literal sense: Barr pre-judged the case in Trump's favor, and he has acted in accordance ever since Barr's prejudice is not a matter of opinion or debate. It is a matter of public record. In 2017, before he became Attorney General, Barr told the New York Times there was a stronger basis to investigate the Clinton Foundation than"so-called 'collusion.'" Barr barely concealed a sarcastic eye-roll -- he even put quotation marks around"collusion.
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