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“Barr sat through the Clinton and Osama Administrations without raising a voice that I can find...”

Barr was a private citizen and worked for a private law firm. He was out of the political arena hence he did what I wish more former government officials would do....He kept his freakin mouth shut.

Here are some interesting things though pertaining to the current administration:

“During the first two years of the Trump presidency, Barr frequently criticized legal challenges against Trump and investigations into the Trump 2016 campaign and presidency.[58][59]

In 2017, Barr said that there was “nothing inherently wrong” with Donald Trump’s calls for investigating Hillary Clinton while the two were both running for president. Barr added that an investigation into an alleged Uranium One controversy was more warranted than looking into whether Trump conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 elections.[60] Barr also said in 2017 that he didn’t think “all this stuff” about incarcerating or prosecuting Hillary Clinton was appropriate to say, but added that “there are things that should be investigated that haven’t been investigated,” although the FBI began investigating the Clinton Foundation and the related Uranium One matter in 2015, followed by investigations by Republican congressional committees.[61][62][63]

In February 2017, Barr argued Trump was justified in firing Acting Attorney General Sally Yates over her refusal to defend Executive Order 13769.[64]

Barr was publicly critical of the special counsel investigation. In 2017, he faulted Mueller for hiring prosecutors who have contributed to Democratic politicians, saying his team should have had more “balance,” and characterized the obstruction of justice investigation as “asinine” and that it was “taking on the look of an entirely political operation to overthrow the president.”[65][66]

In June 2018, Barr sent an unsolicited 20-page memo to senior Justice Department officials, and to members of Trump’s legal team, with some of whom he discussed the memo.[67] In it he argued that the Special Counsel should not be investigating Trump for obstruction of justice because Trump’s actions, such as firing FBI Director James Comey, were within his powers as head of the executive branch.[68][69][70] He characterized the obstruction investigation as “fatally misconceived.”[71] The day after the existence of the memo became known, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said “our decisions are informed by our knowledge of the actual facts of the case, which Mr. Barr didn’t have.”[72] Democrats later characterized the memo as Barr’s “job application” for the Attorney General position.[73]”