Trusted as an honest broker. Yes, barr barr seems to have acted over the last four weeks including yesterday not as the attorney general of the United States but as the president s personal attorney. Barrs critics point to the report, things taken out of context during the initial fourpage summary and statements at his press conference. And the fact that the report went to the president s personal lawyers days, days before congress got a look. Ranking member collins says the subpoena is overboard and flies in the face of normal and proper congressional oversight. Hes hardly the first congressional floun come to the president s republican to come to the president s defense. Although the president is arguably his own best defender because hes tweeted about the report nine times since it was released yesterday. And despite trumps repeated claims of total exoneration, the report does not conclude anything of the sort. In fact, mueller specifically declined to zoexonerate the president of o