Sen. John Barrasso dodges when asked if Trump should maintain DOJ's independence

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Source: NBC News

Nov. 10, 2024, 11:32 AM EST


Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., on Sunday dodged when asked if President-elect Donald Trump should seek to preserve the Department of Justice’s independence from the White House, telling moderator Kristen Welker that former President John F. Kennedy previously appointed his brother Robert F. Kennedy as attorney general and that Trump can “choose who he wants.”

“I think that John Kennedy appointed his brother, little brother Bobby, as attorney general. The president gets to choose who he wants,” Barrasso told Kristen Welker, the moderator of NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”

“We’ll have hearings on whoever the president appoints as the attorney general of the United States. And I’m looking forward to those discussions and those hearings,” Barrasso added. “I’m looking forward to moving quickly with the majority we have in the Senate to get the president’s Cabinet in place so he can hit the ground running come Jan. 20.”

His answer comes just days after Trump was projected to take back the White House, cementing Republican control of the presidency and the Senate. Since the 1970s Watergate scandal, presidential administrations have typically sought to give the Justice Department relative independence from the White House, even though the attorney general is a political appointee.

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[JoseBalow]

1. JFK wasn't a criminal sociopath narcissist dictator-wannabe owned by Russia

so there's that

[slightlv]

2. Interviewing any republican is a zero-sum game.

They're never going to say anything that's going to get trump's attention and get on his bad side. You have to have a spine (like Cheney and Kissinger) to do that! Stupid reporters; stupid interviewers; stupid MSM.