Donald Trump Has Finally Found His Soulmate: William Barr
James Comey thinks the president eats into the souls of appointees like his attorney general. But Barr is doing exactly what he believes in.
Strong bonds.
Photographer: Alex Wong/Getty Images North AmericaJames Comey, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, took to the New York Times opinion pages on Wednesday to examine why seemingly top-drawer people lose their principles, courage, bearings and voices once they enter President Donald Trump’s orbit.
Comey published his column the same day Attorney General William Barr testified in the Senate about how he went about ingesting, publishing and spinning Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report. Barr ran interference for Trump throughout the hearing and the president’s apparent ability to co-opt Barr troubled Comey. The ex-FBI boss thinks Barr succumbed to Trump because the attorney general’s moral backbone has gone missing.