(CNN)On the eve of the release of the redacted report detailing Russia’s attempted interference in the 2016 election — it’s worth noting that the man overseeing those redactions has done a series of things that have President Donald Trump and his supporters cheering since coming into the post in February.
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Remember that Barr is one of the VERY few people who have read the full, 300-plus-page unredacted report. (Barr will not be showing that unredacted report to Congress on Thursday.) He knows what’s in there and how bad (if bad at all) it is for Trump. And he wants to make sure that he softens the ground on which the report will land in front of the President who, as anyone who has lived on Planet siEarth over these last few years knows, is deeply bothered by even the idea that a special counsel was formed in the first place. So if Barr knows the report is going to make Trump angry, why the day before the expected release take a Trumian stance on immigration? And for good measure, throw a rhetorical bone to the President on the whole “spying” thing? (A day after Barr made his comments, Trump seized on them and went a step further, saying: “There was absolutely spying into my campaign. I’ll go a step further: In my opinion, it was illegal spying, unprecedented spying, and something that should never be allowed to happen in our country again.”)
