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The Counsel

Note from Elie: Bill Barr's Revisionist BS

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Note From Elie is part of the free weekly CAFE Brief newsletter. Audio recordings of Elie's Note are part of the CAFE Insider subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey everyone, Ellie here, bringing you my weekly note to the cafe community. As you may have heard,

0:36.7

there's a brand new book coming out by

0:38.8

Bill Barr. Now, I'd recommend a different book about Bill Barr, the one I wrote, Hatchet Man,

0:46.0

how Bill Barr broke the prosecutor's code and corrupted the Justice Department. Heck, get them both,

0:51.2

compare them, decide which one resonates with you.

0:54.7

Anyway, love to hear your thoughts, comments, and questions.

0:57.2

Keep sending them in to Letters atcafe.com.

1:19.1

The Bill Bar Public Image Rehabilitation Tour of 2022 is underway.

1:24.4

Prepare for a tidal wave of self-serving, revisionist bullshit.

1:28.8

Barr's book is out this week, and the attention-grabbing headline is that he has quite belatedly turned against his former benefactor and hero Donald Trump. Despite having spent

1:35.3

his tenure as Attorney General lying for Trump, propping up Trump, protecting Trump from criminal

1:40.0

investigation, and abetting Trump's effort to steal the 2020 election, Barr now reportedly

1:45.2

has turned on his master. Barr, sounding like a spurned lover, writes that Trump cared only about

1:52.4

one thing himself. He describes Trump as an incorrigible narcissist who exhibits self-indulgence

1:59.4

and lack of self-control.

2:01.2

Barr concludes that Trump has shown he has neither the temperament nor persuasive powers

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