Joyce Vance on Bill Barr: It Looks Like Trump’s ‘Appointing a Wingman’ Rather than Appointing an AG

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VANCE: "You know, one thing that you understand as a federal prosecutor is that you only have the credibility to do your work, to prosecute cases that people in the community believe that you have. If you’re going to be making decisions about who gets indicted and who gets prosecuted, then the community has to have good faith of belief that you’re doing that with integrity. The criticism that I make is less of Bill Barr a person. He has a reputation. He served as Attorney General previously. The problem is because he has written this 20-page memo indicating the President shouldn’t be prosecuted on obstruction grounds and it was sent over to DOJ and made it to the White House before his name surfaced as Trump's pick, it looks to people out in the community as though what’s happening here is the President is appointing a wingman rather than appointing an Attorney General who will look at the law with independence. That hurts DOJ and that hurts all of us, not just in these investigations, but in all of DOJ's work."