Given the facts as they are now known, only the most superficial parallel can be drawn between the two situations.
No one should think he’s having second thoughts about the awful things he did in office.
The January 6 committee has provided overwhelming evidence that the former president was not some bit player along for the ride, but the central driver of a nefarious plot.
A self-assured right-wing majority may be ready to radically alter our legal system and destroy the public’s trust in the Supreme Court and the law.
Bill Barr is convinced that the country is betraying its founding—and that it’s up to him to stop it.
The attorney general is using official violence and intimidation to help Trump win a second term.
The attorney general has openly enlisted as an arm of the Trump campaign and brought the full powers of his office with him.
The attorney general is working to destroy the integrity and independence of the Justice Department, in order to make Donald Trump a president who can operate above the law.
The special counsel should give us the benefit of his professional judgment on the legal significance of the facts he has found.
He is using the office he holds to advance his extraordinary lifetime project of assigning unchecked power to the president.