Attorney General William Barr resigns, effective Dec. 23

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I am at the bar talking with some gents celebrating the Electoral Win of Biden with some disgruntled Trumpers.

Some of these are saying Barr is allowing himself to gather defense info and will be hiring a defense lawyer after Christmas. They believe something is amiss and Barr is making like a rat on a sinking ship.
 
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/politics/bill-barr-donald-trump-ag/index.html
Don’t be so sure.

While there’s no doubt that Barr, on a number of occasions, made himself a willing participant in Trump’s efforts to turn the Justice Department into his own private score-settling agency, there’s been several examples of late in which Barr bucked the President’s wishes in critical moments.

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Those twin moves suggest that, while he was willing to bend to Trump’s will, Barr’s ultimate loyalty – at least in these instances – was with the rule of law.

Which, of course, made Trump angry. And made him want to get rid of Barr. Which, effectively, he did on Monday night – as Barr’s resignation is rightly understood as one forced by the President’s repeated public attacks on him. (Don’t forget: Trump suggested, in an interview with Fox’s Maria Bartiromo that both the FBI and Department of Justice might be involved in the attempt to keep him from winning. He offered no proof of this massive claim.)

All of which begs this question: If Barr wasn’t loyal enough to Trump or willing to do everything the President asked of him, what will the post-Barr DOJ look like for the final weeks of the Trump presidency?
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Just read on Twitter that he’s bailing before the preemptive pardons for Trump’s family come out.
 
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F_Marturana said:
I just wonder why would the family need pardons.
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Federal tax fraud.

As an example, paying Ivanka six figures for consulting on a project in Canada when she was an employee. Apparently that’s frowned upon, because consulting fees are somehow tax deductible for the Trump Organization. The thinking is that was a way to distribute profits to Ivanka without the normal tax treatment.

Any state tax fraud that the NY AG comes up with for the Trump Organization (different valuation of properties for taxes and as collateral for loans) has federal implications, too.
 
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But issuing a pardon implies that there is something to be pardoned for.
 
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At least that is what he’s been claiming for the past four years…while hiding the tax returns he said he would release when it was over.
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Including the election year of 2016, he has been claiming that for 5 years.
 
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