ATTORNEY GENERAL/DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General William P. Barr delivered an extraordinary rebuke of President Trump on Thursday [2-13-20], saying that his attacks on the Justice Department had made it ‘impossible for me to do my job’ and that ‘I’m not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody.’ Mr. Barr has been among the president’s most loyal allies and denigrated by Democrats as nothing more than his personal lawyer, but he publicly challenged Mr. Trump in a way that no sitting cabinet member has…Mr. Barr’s remarks were aimed at containing the fallout from the department’s botched handling of its sentencing recommendation for Mr. Trump’s longtime friend Roger J. Stone Jr., who was convicted of seven felonies in a bid to obstruct a congressional investigation that threatened the president.”
–Katie Benner, “Barr Says Attacks From Trump Make Work ‘Impossible’,” The New York Times online, February 13, 2020