Bill Barr accused of helping Trump ‘cover up’ major scandal by ex-prosecutor
A former prosecutor in the Southern District of New York who worked under U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Berman pointed out that former Attorney General Bill Barr has zero knowledge about the investigation or prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein.
Barr appeared before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, where he claimed he didn't hear anything about President Donald Trump being in the Epstein files.
Speaking to MSNBC on Tuesday, former assistant U.S. Attorney Kristy Greenberg said that there's a very good reason for that, and Barr isn't saying it out loud.
She recalled reading Berman's book, which has a full chapter on the prosecution of Epstein. Among the things he said is that because then-Labor Secretary Alex Acosta was the one who gave Epstein a sweetheart sentencing deal, Berman thought he should probably keep Barr out of the probe.
"Berman said in his book about Bill Barr's role in the Epstein case, I never briefed [him] on the investigation," Greenberg told host Nicolle Wallace. Berman claimed "the charges they were seeking didn't require main justice approval, and he couldn't think of any way in which involving Barr would help."
"So, they kept Barr at arm's length. He was never briefed on the investigation, which, for a high-profile investigation like this, is rare," said Greenberg. "And there's no reason to believe Barr himself reviewed the Epstein file. That's not what an attorney general does. It's a massive file. And Epstein died a month after he was indicted. So, if Barr didn't review the file and he didn't get briefed on it, then Barr saying he did not see anything that might implicate Trump means nothing."
She explained, "Barr can't clear Trump of anything. He's not in a position to do it. Who is in a position to clear Trump if Trump has nothing to hide? Trump's DOJ can make available any mentions of Trump in the Epstein file that could clear him. If he has nothing to hide, others who could clear him if Trump has nothing to hide, congressional Republicans can call witnesses who actually know the facts."
Greenberg lamented that if the House Oversight Committee truly cared about getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal, then they would call in line prosecutors who worked on the case and those who know what happened.
"But the fact that they are not doing that, and the fact that they are not looking to get to the truth, and they're just covering these stunts, that tells you it's really a cover-up, and that DOJ and the congressional Republicans are helping Trump cover up the truth," Greenberg closed.
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