Disgraced Barr Jumps Ship

The Muckrake Political Podcast

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News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Bill Barr is gone! After bending the law of the United States of America and serving as a weapon for President Donald Trump, the disgraced Attorney General takes his leave just in time to head home for the holidays. Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman look back on a truly rotten career, discuss the rise of fascistic symbolism among Republicans, and take a second to truly marvel at one of the most misogynistic op-eds in years. Subscribe for lots of great bonus content here: http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast

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0:00.0	The electors have unanimously cast 16 votes for Joseph R. Biden.
0:07.0	The electors of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have cast 20 votes for the Honorable Joseph R. Biden for President of the United States
0:16.0	and 20 votes for the Honorable Kamala D. Harris for Vice President of the United States.
0:27.1	You know, respecting the will of the people is at the heart of our democracy.
0:33.3	Even when we find those results hard to accept, but that's the obligation of those who have taken on a sworn duty to uphold the Constitution.
0:42.5	Ho!
0:43.6	Ho!
0:48.2	Fuck Bill Barr, everybody.
0:51.7	Welcome to the Muckrake Park. I'm your jubilant host, drinking a little gnaug, enjoying a little
0:56.5	Christmas cheer. Jared Y. Sexton, I'm here with my co-host. As always, Nick Howseman.
1:02.1	Nick, Bill Barr, the attorney general. Ding-ong.
1:08.5	What a terrible day, isn't it? Just goodbye, Bill Barr. Cheers. What a, what a run day isn't it just goodbye bill bar cheers what a what a what a
1:15.2	unbelievable run as a turn in general by bill ball sure well you know you can't fire me because
1:19.8	i quit i think is the uh the adage we should refer to in the situation i'm impressed that
1:25.3	uh trump was so magnanimous in his Twitter response to the letter
1:30.2	that he sent because I could have sworn that Trump would have just detonated on him and it made it seem
1:34.6	a lot worse than it was. Well, I have to say, you know, we shit on Donald Trump a lot for
1:41.0	being a terrible human being and for being a liar and being stupid.
1:47.0	You know, this, I really felt like this was a really heartfelt tweet in which he announced
1:51.8	Bill Barr was leaving.
1:52.7	I'm just going to share this with everyone.
1:55.9	Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr at the White House.
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