Only when Trump tried to steal the election did Barr grow a conscience. Otherwise, he was a close approximation to Roy Cohn, Trumpâs notorious and long-dead personal attorney. Cohn and Barr even attended the same high school and college. But in the end, much as Trump ditched Cohn as he lay dying of Aids, Trump discarded Barr.
Elie Honig surmises that Barrâs quest for power and desire to turn the clock back on secular modernity girded his disdain for democratic norms and legal conventions that came to stand in his way.
Honig is an ex-prosecutor who became a CNN commentator. His first book, subtitled âHow Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutorâs Code and Corrupted the Justice Departmentâ, catalogs Barrâs misdeeds across 288 pages, interspersed with flashbacks to Honigâs career as an assistant US attorney in the southern district of New York.
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Donald Rumsfeld, former Chief of Staff, Defense Secretary and Representative of Illinois 13th Congressional District has died at the age of 88. U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in his office in Washington, D.C. Aug. 13, 1976.
Associated Press President Gerald Ford and presidential assistant Donald Rumsfeld huddle over bills during work session at Vail, Colorado, Dec. 24, 1974. The president is spending a working holiday at this ski resort with his family. He signed 15 bills into law and vetoed two.
Associated Press Daily Herald file photo, 1966Rep. Donald Rumsfeld talks with editors of Paddock Publications in Oct. of 1966 Daily Herald file photo, 1965Donald Rumsfeld (front right) was in town to receive an award presented by the Illinois Retail Merchants Assn, in Dec. 1965