re: #67 Myron Falwell

This news with Cohen tonight proves that the proverbial horse is now out of the barn. If Trump wanted a goon AG to derail the investigation, pulling Barr for someone worse will just eat up time he can’t afford to lose.

And it’s obvious Baldo McBaldyface has had no clue how to derail a goddam thing.

This news also raises the stakes for the ethics professionals in their analysis of Barr’s need to recuse, because he pre-judged the situation in both his memo and answer to Klobouchar about a President persuading a witness to commit perjury. In essence if the evidence strongly backs up the allegation that Trump ordered Cohen to lie to Congress then Barr in on record calling that a criminal offense.

.@AmyKlobuchar: You wrote on page 1 that a president persuading a person to commit perjury would be obstruction, is that right?

William Barr: Yes. pic.twitter.com/mBcRl0mgD7

— Brian Tashman (@briantashman) January 18, 2019

In other words Barr is now trapped and must recuse, which in Trump’s view was Sessions’ great betrayal.