Klobuchar Gets Barr to Defend Trump Over and Over Again
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) forced Attorney General William Barr to repeatedly defend President Trump from evidence presented in Special Counsel Robert Muellers 448-page report that he attempted to obstruct justice on multiple occasions.
Klobuchar, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, brought up during Wednesdays Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Trumps thinly veiled threats against his former fixer and personal attorney Michael Cohen, his interactions with former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and his orders to former White House counsel Don McGahn.
This is a man in the highest office in the most powerful job in our country, and he is basicallyIm trying to think how someone would react if the President of the United States is implying, getting out there that your family members have committed a crime. You dont consider that any attempt to change testimony?
Trump, on more than one occasion, publicly floated vague accusations about Cohens father-in-law and wife. Do you consider that evidence to be an attempt to convince a witness to change testimony? Kobuchar asked Barr.
No, I don't think that that could pass muster, he responded.
Klobuchar continued: The report found that the presidents personal counsel told Paul Manafort that he would be taken care of. That you dont consider obstruction of justice?
No, not standing alone, said Barr. On both the same reasons.
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