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‘A fixer for a mobster’: Twitter eviscerates AG Barr for pretending to stand up to Trump’s tweets

02/15/2020 10:43 am ET • Caroline Mulligan

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By now, you’ve probably heard Attorney General William Barr publicly complain about how Trump’s tweets “make it impossible” for him to do his job. We have a dozen of the best Twitter responses to Barr.

Barr’s remarks come after four attorneys resigned from the Roger Stone case. The Justice Department originally recommended Trump’s pal be sentenced to 7-9 years in prison for obstruction and witness tampering—but then watered that down after Trump tweeted criticism about the sentencing.

Out of context, it sounds like Barr is taking a stand against Trump’s attempts to interfere with the DOJ.

But if you read the whole interview, it tells a very different story. Barr spends much of his time defending the choice to recommend a lighter sentence, claiming he planned to do so even before Trump’s tweets.

As Mika Brzezinski put it on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, “It seems what he’s saying is that these tweets make it harder for Bill Barr to help [Trump] be corrupt.”

Twitter users took to the hashtags #BarrLies and #DisbarBarr to slam the AG:

1. ‘A Fixer For A Mobster’

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One tweet, written in verse, called Barr the worst attorney general.

🗽Poem🗽

Bill Barr’s Corruption
Is not hard to see

He’s earned the title
of the very worst AG

A fixer for a mobster
covering up crimes

Enemy of democracy
Remove him-It’s time#DisbarBarrNow #ImpeachBarr #ImpeachBillBarr #ResignBarr #ImpeachBarrNow #BarrLies #Trump pic.twitter.com/9CJBpyBOoz

— A.Silver-MeMEs & GIFs (@SilverAdie) February 14, 2020

2. Facts and Logic

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It’s not hard for most people on Twitter to assume that Barr isn’t telling the truth…some things are as obvious as the nose on one’s face.

#FunFactFriday:

Water is wet 💦
The sun rises in the East ☀️
And #BarrLies 🐸

— Bleeding Heart Liberal Marine (@zaharako) February 14, 2020

3. Barr Needs a Translator

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Barr uses vague terminology to cover up for himself. One Twitter user found the best way to translate him.

Barr: “I cannot do my job here at the department with constant background commentary”
Translation : I cannot do my job as fixer for Trump when he’s constantly focusing attention on it. #DisbarBarr #ImpeachBarr #BarrLies

— Raging Angel (@firefliesnight) February 14, 2020

4. Is he a racist?

On Sunday, Barr will spend $30,000 at a Trump hotel for a family holiday. Draining the swamp?

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Why can’t Barr intervene for all the other people who might have been unjustly accused? One tweet said it all: maybe he’s a racist, or maybe he’s lying.

If William Barr really acted alone in asking to cut Roger Stone’s sentencing, then why the hell doesn’t he recommend that all of the innocent black men who are serving decades for possessing marijuana have their sentences reduced too? Oh that’s right, because #BarrLies!

— Ms. Krassenstein (@HKrassenstein) February 14, 2020

5. All filler, no truth

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One Twitter user edited out all the lies in the Barr interview. There are no words, literally.

I edited out all of the #BarrLies pic.twitter.com/y1D26CFjzX

— ElElegante101 (@skolanach) February 14, 2020

6. A page out of Bannon’s book

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Barr’s statements resounded with one Twitter user, who believed that it sounded like a speech written by Steve Bannon.

The 3 Stooges collaborate once again to stage a distraction from what they have once again been caught at. Spin doctors and bad actors. Convenient press conferences & "perfectly" written speeches Bannon would have wrote #BarrMustGo #McConnell #BarrResign #BarrLies #DOJCorruption pic.twitter.com/sgidva39Fd

— Naked Zebra (@ZebraNaked) February 14, 2020

7. Who does Barr work for?

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Who does William Barr really work for? The Justice Department, or Trump? His comments seem to point to the president.

If Barr had said trump's tweeting was keeping HIS DEPARTMENT from doing their jobs, I might have believed him but he said it was keeping HIM from doing his job. he's trump's personal AG not the country's!! #RuleofLawCrisis #BarrLies #BarrMustResign https://t.co/4ALOslebbe

— Linda Moore (@lindee1364) February 14, 2020

8. What else is he lying about?

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What else has Barr lied about? The Justice Collaborative brought up a previous statement from the Attorney General that tried to blame progressive prosecutors for violent crime.

Barr used Chicago as an example of cities with “progressive” prosecutors that “have all suffered historic levels of homicide and other violent crime.”

That was a lie. #BarrLies

— The Justice Collaborative (@Justice_Collab) February 13, 2020

Violent crime decreased by roughly 8% as State’s Attorney Kimm Foxx’s office reduced the number of people being sentenced to prison or jail by 19%.

The number of homicides and shootings have fallen for the 3rd consecutive year. #BarrLies https://t.co/Z2rrFosjqR

— The Justice Collaborative (@Justice_Collab) February 13, 2020

9. Should Barr change his name to Roy Cohn?

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Trump’s not following the rules by tweeting, which makes it harder for Barr to do his job. But is his job to be the attorney general, or to cover up for Trump?

Former U.S. attorney Paul Fishman: Barr said Trump tweets keep him from doing his job. So either Barr means Trump tweets keep Barr from doing his job as AG, or, Trump tweets keep him from being Trump’s Roy Cohn, because the tweets expose their abuse of power. #Maddow #BarrLies pic.twitter.com/oqhuOUh8pW

— PassMeAPickle (@CeeLeeMusic) February 14, 2020

10. His body language gives it away

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Someone on Twitter analyzed Barr’s body language in his interview. They determined that Barr was showing signs of “Duping Delight.”

10/ Whenever a smile is displayed out of context, there's always significance. Very often, it's a form of what is known as "Duping Delight".

— Dr. Jack Brown (@DrGJackBrown) February 16, 2020

12/ Bill Barr displayed multiple examples of smiling out of context/duping delight throughout this ABC interview.

— Dr. Jack Brown (@DrGJackBrown) February 16, 2020

11. Former attorneys general want him to resign

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1,100 former attorneys general called for Barr to resign after learning what he did for Roger Stone.

Barr has repeatedly shown us who he is. He doesn’t work for the American people as required. His only allegiance is to a corrupt President so he must go. #BarrResign #ResignBarr #DisbarBarrNow #BarrLies #ImpeachBarrNow https://t.co/B4dHXlb7d5

— Reynoan (@Reynoan) February 16, 2020

12. Barr’s actions are unprecedented

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No one has ever heard of an attorney general doing the kind of manipulations that Barr has done.

Andrew Weissmann: Do you know how many times I have experienced or even heard of the attorney general of the United States reaching into a single criminal case to weigh in on the sentencing submission?

Maddow: How many times?

Weissmann: That would be zero. pic.twitter.com/RoqeAidLW4

— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) February 15, 2020

‘A fixer for a mobster’: Twitter eviscerates AG Barr for pretending to stand up to Trump’s tweets

1. ‘A Fixer For A Mobster’

2. Facts and Logic

3. Barr Needs a Translator

4. Is he a racist?

5. All filler, no truth

6. A page out of Bannon’s book

7. Who does Barr work for?

8. What else is he lying about?

9. Should Barr change his name to Roy Cohn?

10. His body language gives it away

11. Former attorneys general want him to resign

12. Barr’s actions are unprecedented

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