Barr says Trump’s friends ‘don’t deserve special breaks.’ Here are 6 who got them.
Six of Trump’s friends and supporters have received pardons or commutations, making up a large percentage of the few he’s made.
By Emily Singer - July 28, 2020Six of Trump’s friends and supporters have received pardons or commutations, making up a large percentage of the few he’s made.
By Emily Singer - July 28, 2020Attorney General William Barr lied about how he ousted Geoffrey Berman, who was probing Trump’s close ally Rudy Giuliani.
By Emily Singer - July 09, 2020The Trump administration supported the petitioners’ Supreme Court appeal.
By Associated Press - June 30, 2020House Republicans tried to block a witness from making allegations against Attorney General William Barr.
By Emily Singer - June 24, 2020Aaron Zelinsky resigned from the Justice Department over Attorney General William Barr’s political interference on behalf of Trump.
By Emily Singer - June 23, 2020Geoffrey Berman’s firing is seen as yet another instance of Trump politicizing the Justice Department.
By Associated Press - June 23, 2020Trump falsely claims he eradicated ISIS and rebuilt a military that was depleted before he took office.
By Associated Press - June 15, 2020Trump had said he went to the bunker during protests ‘much more for an inspection.’
By Emily Singer - June 09, 2020A Park Police spokesperson initially said ‘it was a mistake on our part’ to describe the chemical compounds used on the crowd as tear gas, before later issuing a new statement saying the opposite.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 05, 2020Republicans have been quick to condemn antifa as chaos erupts at various protests across the country, despite scant evidence to support their claims.
By Emily Singer - June 04, 2020Attorney General Barr joined Trump to tell governors they have to ‘dominate’ the streets and ‘go after troublemakers.’
By Associated Press - June 01, 2020William Barr is propping up false claims by Donald Trump that absentee voting allows massive voter fraud.
By Emily Singer - June 01, 2020The Trump administration is telling Planned Parenthood affiliates to return loans obtained under a government aid program.
By Emily Singer - May 27, 2020The Justice Department dropped Trump ally Michael Flynn’s case, despite the fact that he pleaded guilty.
By Oliver Willis - May 18, 2020The letter is in response to the attorney general’s decision to drop the case against Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
By Emily Singer - May 11, 2020Some Democratic lawmakers are calling for Barr’s resignation.
By Emily Singer - May 08, 2020As Donald Trump pushes for an end to stay-at-home orders, his attorney general says such safety measures are ‘disturbingly close to house arrest.’
By Oliver Willis - April 21, 2020The attorney general said the media is on a ‘jihad’ to discredit hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment simply because Trump said it may work.
By Emily Singer - April 09, 2020The Judiciary Committee is requesting interviews with career prosecutors after Attorney General William Barr intervened in Roger Stone’s sentencing process.
By Josh Israel - February 28, 2020Trump may still pardon Stone, who was convicted in November on charges of witness tampering and lying to Congress.
By Emily Singer - February 20, 2020Trump gave full pardons to seven individuals this week, including a former NYPD commissioner who pleaded guilty to tax fraud and lying to Homeland Security, while also commuting the sentences of four others.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 18, 2020Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senator Lindsey Graham, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy say questions about Barr’s impartiality are ‘unfounded.’
By Emily Singer - February 18, 2020The Federal Judges Association called the meeting after Attorney General William Barr overruled his own prosecutors’ sentencing recommendations in the Roger Stone case.
By Josh Israel - February 18, 2020Trump is trying to push the judge to grant Stone a new trial just days before Stone is set to be sentenced.
By Emily Singer - February 18, 2020The officials have called on the attorney general to resign in an online petition.
By Emily Singer - February 17, 2020Trump is under fire for trying to get his longtime friend and ally Roger Stone a lighter sentence.
By Emily Singer - February 14, 2020Trump confirmed the U.S. attorney general is acting as his fixer, rather than a fair and independent law enforcement officer for the country.
By Emily Singer - February 12, 2020Meanwhile, Giuliani is under federal investigation for acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
By Emily Singer - February 10, 2020Rudy Giuliani’s indicted associate claims high-level officials all the way up to Donald Trump and Mike Pence were involved in the Ukraine scandal.
By Emily Singer - January 16, 2020Michael Horowitz testified on Wednesday that Obama neither spied on nor ordered an investigation into Trump or his 2016 campaign.
By Emily Singer - December 11, 2019