# The Bill Barr Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 2, 2019, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bill-barr-thread/833354 "2019-05-02T04:10:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bill-barr-thread/833354/101 "2019-05-09T01:17:31Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Good God, man… for a second there I thought I was going to have to respect Marco Rubio for something. Don’t ever scare me like that again! Yeah, if you’re ever confused about Rubio’s motive for something, “hypocrisy” is the safe bet. I would call him the Seth Pecksniff of the Senate if there weren’t so many other contenders for the title. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bill-barr-thread/833354/102 "2019-05-09T01:49:07Z")
Donald Trump Sr. got something like six million bucks from his Daddy at age 6 or 8. Did Sr do the same for Jr? ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bill-barr-thread/833354/103 "2019-05-15T22:49:25Z")
One can now make easy [Bill Barr memes](https://i.imgflip.com/312fv6.jpg): [one](https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/175920420/Bill-Barr), [two](https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/178415791/bill-barr-zombie), [three](https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/181485931/William-Barr-Attorney-General) ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bill-barr-thread/833354/104 "2019-05-15T23:49:23Z")
In the spirit of meme, I am presenting today’s Bill Barr news in [pictorial form](https://i.imgur.com/CS7EJi8.jpg). ([Story Source](https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1128738092897189894); [SuperLame Word Balloon Engine](http://www.superlame.com/index.php)) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bill-barr-thread/833354/105 "2019-05-16T01:07:59Z")
Testing, just quickly testing… > **[Image tagged in william barr attorney general](https://imgflip.com/i/312rk5)** > > An image tagged william barr attorney general Did it work? (ETA: yup.) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bill-barr-thread/833354/106 "2019-05-16T03:18:17Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > One can now make easy [Bill Barr memes](https://i.imgflip.com/312fv6.jpg): [one](https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/175920420/Bill-Barr), [two](https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/178415791/bill-barr-zombie), [three](https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/181485931/William-Barr-Attorney-General) My god, he’s melting, isn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bill-barr-thread/833354/107 "2019-05-16T03:27:27Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > My god, he’s melting, isn’t he? Now you’re making me imagine Bill Barr opening the Ark of the Covenant for Trump and his cronies. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bill-barr-thread/833354/108 "2019-05-16T12:16:17Z")
I’m sure defense attorneys everywhere must be getting a kick at the brand new legal strategy that AG Barr just gave them. _“Yes, your honor, that’s my client’s voice on that tape, but never mind that - the FBI was SPYING on my client!”_ ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bill-barr-thread/833354/109 "2019-05-16T16:17:18Z")
Maybe Barr has taken inspiration from [John Mitchell’s mug shots](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/1/1854733/-Let-s-all-send-a-postcard-of-John-Mitchell-to-Attorney-General-Barr). Nixon’s Attorney General served 19 months for conspiracy, obstruction and perjury. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bill-barr-thread/833354/110 "2019-05-17T08:13:36Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Maybe Barr has taken inspiration from [John Mitchell’s mug shots](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/1/1854733/-Let-s-all-send-a-postcard-of-John-Mitchell-to-Attorney-General-Barr). Nixon’s Attorney General served 19 months for conspiracy, obstruction and perjury. “That’s Guilty! GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY!!” ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bill-barr-thread/833354/111 "2019-06-03T15:13:00Z")
So I read [the transcript of Jan Crawford’s interview with Bill Barr](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/william-barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/) and I gotta say: he’s lying. He lies consistently throughout the interview and even gets caught in a couple of them. He’s lying lying lying. Don’t trust this man. Don’t trust anything he says. He’s _lying_. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bill-barr-thread/833354/112 "2019-06-03T18:02:52Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > So I read [the transcript of Jan Crawford’s interview with Bill Barr](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/william-barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/) and I gotta say: he’s lying. He lies consistently throughout the interview and even gets caught in a couple of them. He’s lying lying lying. Don’t trust this man. Don’t trust anything he says. He’s _lying_. \*New York \*magazine’s take on the interview: [In Terrifying Interview, William Barr Goes Full MAGA](http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/william-barr-interview-cbs-mueller-coup-trump.html) They have a different take on Barr’s lying: > [@](#): > > As far as Barr is concerned, Trump has done nothing wrong, and all the shredding of norms has been done against him, not by him. Trump’s calls to jail all his opponents, his non-stop lies, his demands to punish independent media and satirists, his open conviction that law enforcement should operate at his personal command and follow him loyally, not to mention the repeated obstruction of justice detailed by Mueller — none of it concerns Barr even slightly. > > Everything Barr has said and done during this investigation tells us he is not lying about this belief. The terrifying truth is that he all but surely believes every word. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bill-barr-thread/833354.md?page=5)