Attorney General William Barr finds himself thrust back into the harsh glare as the Ukraine scandal grows
President Donald Trump never directly asked Attorney General William Barr to launch any type of investigation into Joe Biden, a Justice Department spokeswoman said Wednesday, clarifying that Barr’s denial of involvement extended beyond the Ukraine scandal.
“If you are asking separately if the President has asked the AG to investigate Biden, the answer is no,” Justice spokeswoman Kerri Kupec told POLITICO Wednesday afternoon. “The President dragged the Attorney General into this mess. At a minimum, AG Barr must recuse himself until we get to the bottom of this matter,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said on Twitter.
“All relevant components of the Department agreed with this legal conclusion, and the Department has concluded the matter,” Kupec said. Now, Barr’s central role in Trump’s Ukraine mess is reviving critics’ concerns about whether he is independent enough from his boss. Some former Justice Department officials said Barr should have completely detached himself from analysis of Trump’s conduct or the whistleblower complaint that Justice officials concluded was not required to be relayed to Congress.
Despite the assurances, Barr critics said the handling of complaint continued a pattern of covering for the president.
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