Dem White House hopefuls call on Barr to resign
Democratic White House hopefuls on Wednesday called for Attorney General William Barr to resign, saying he had lost credibility with the American people over his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“I think he’s lost the confidence of the American people. I think he should,” former Vice President Joe Biden responded Wednesday evening in Iowa when a reporter asked him whether Barr should resign.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tweeted: "AG Barr is a disgrace, and his alarming efforts to suppress the Mueller report show that he’s not a credible head of federal law enforcement. He should resign — and based on the actual facts in the Mueller report, Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against the President.“
Several Democratic presidential contenders peppered Barr with questions about the Mueller report Wednesday when he testified before a Senate panel. Democrats say he misled Americans when he issued a four-page summary of Mueller’s report before releasing the full document, and they say he should have recused himself from the investigation because he wrote a memo a year ago calling the Mueller probe "fatally misconceived.”
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) told a group of reporters after she questioned him at the hearing that Barr "lacks all credibility." The attorney general said during questioning by Harris that he opted not to charge President Donald Trump with obstruction of justice after reviewing Mueller’s report but without digging into all of the evidence Mueller collected, which he said was in keeping with Justice Department practices.
"He made a decision and didn’t review the evidence," Harris said. "No prosecutor worth her salt would make a decision about whether the president of the United States was involved in an obstruction of justice without reviewing the evidence."
She later tweeted that what she saw from the attorney general during his testimony was "unacceptable" and that "Barr must resign now."
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) also tweeted a call for Barr’s resignation, urging Americans to sign a petition on his 2020 campaign website if they agree. Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas said Barr had "failed in his responsibility to our country" and should step down.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), another White House contender, tweeted that she wanted the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate Barr’s handling of the report, joining other Senate Democrats in calling for such a probe. Later in the day, she stepped up her demands.
"Attorney General Barr needs to resign. Today, he’s proven once again that he’s more interested in protecting the president than working for the American people. We can’t trust him to tell the truth, and these embarrassing displays of propaganda have to stop," Gillibrand tweeted.
Even before Barr testified, Julián Castro, former United States secretary of Housing and Urban Development tweeted Tuesday that the attorney general "willfully misled the American people to cover up attempted crimes by Donald Trump" and should "resign his position or face an impeachment inquiry immediately."
He doubled down on the statement in a Wednesday press release, following Barr’s testimony.
"The Attorney General takes an oath to defend the Constitution and at every juncture what’s clear is that this Attorney General instead, has tried to be Donald Trump’s personal lawyer," he said in the release. "That’s not the role of the Attorney General.”
The White House has stuck by Barr. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders complimented Barr’s years of service, tweeting that "Democrats only disgrace and humiliate themselves with their baseless attacks on such a fine public servant."
Barr is scheduled to continue testifying Thursday before the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee.
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