The effort to remove Mr. Burman is part of a clear and dangerous pattern of conduct

that began when Mr. Bartook office and continues to this day. Mr. Bart's actions make clear

that in his Department of Justice the President's allies get special treatment.

The President's enemies, real and imagined, are targeted for extra scrutiny and the needs of the

American people and the needs of justice are generally ignored.

One of the greatest dangers to democracy is that people start believing that

prosecutions are based on politics or based on who the defendant happens to know.

And unfortunately Bill Barr has perverted the Department of Justice.

Jake Clayton should withdraw his name from consideration and refuse to be an accomplice to the

scheme.

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, I'm Virginia Heffernan.

Who, boy, it's been another week of Tesseracts and quark holes and worm rays into red dwarves of

reversed polarities. Rapt in an enigma. Basically it just sucks. Every state, except New York,

it seems, did not bring the hammer down hard enough on the deadly pandemic that is now America's

constant companion. And cases of coronavirus are steeply on the rise across the country.

At the same time, the police after their slight setback and moment of reflection are licking

their chops talking about lynching as if it's, I was going to say the 1920s, but actually as if it's

just what it is 2020 when we have a world of Thorazine deprived QAnon believers who belong in

paper slippers and believe Trump is their savior here to crush Black Lives Matter and Bill Gates.

And of course, the great Satan. I'm with Jeff Charlotte that the 2020 race is very different

from the 2016 one. This year the Trumpite rallyers, what's left of them, aren't talking about the wall.

They aren't even talking about the things that used to warm the coccles of their hearts like the

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