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On Tuesday morning prominent MSNBC host Joe Scarborough tore into Attorney General Bill Barr, seizing on comments made by former deputy AG Donald Ayer, who served under President Bush.
Ayer was on MSNBC on Monday night, where he told host Joy Reid that Barr’s unquestioning loyalty to Trump was like him aiding a “king,” not a President. Ayer had previously worked with Barr at the Department of Justice.
Ayer also touched on this topic in an article for the Atlantic that ends with:
Bill Barr’s America is not a place that anyone, including Trump voters, should want to go. It is a banana republic where all are subject to the whims of a dictatorial president and his henchmen. To prevent that, we need a public uprising demanding that Bill Barr resign immediately, or failing that, be impeached.
As Ayer wrote, “given our national faith and trust in a rule of law no one can subvert, it is not too strong to say that Bill Barr is un-American.”
On Tuesday morning, co-host Mika Brzezinski read a few sections of Ayer’s article on air which prompted Joe Scarborough to respond with:
“You look at Bill Barr and what he’s done and you look at the fact that he has started a search and destroy mission against all of the president’s perceived political opponents that the president concocted when he talked about Barack Obama tapping the phones at Trump Tower back in March of 2017 and he is chasing down every conspiracy theory that the president is putting forward.”
“At the same time, and more disturbingly, Bill Barr is providing aid and comfort to the president’s allies. Roger Stone, one of the president’s longest political allies, the two have been politically inseparable through the decades.”
“So for the Attorney general to intervene in sentencing when we’re talking about one of the president’s closest political allies, it’s just beyond the pale. It is an impeachable offense, but, of course, lying to Congress is also an impeachable offense and Bill Barr did that a very long time ago.”
Watch the Ayer interview below:
