{"id":45578,"date":"2020-12-15T04:04:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T04:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45578"},"modified":"2020-12-15T04:04:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T04:04:09","slug":"barr-resignation-perfect-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45578","title":{"rendered":"Barr resignation: perfect metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Barrquits%20%23DOJ%20%23POTUS%20%23MarkEsperfired&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/17-donald-trump-william-barr.w1200.h630.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41239\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/17-donald-trump-william-barr.w1200.h630-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/17-donald-trump-william-barr.w1200.h630-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/17-donald-trump-william-barr.w1200.h630-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/17-donald-trump-william-barr.w1200.h630-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/17-donald-trump-william-barr.w1200.h630.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney General William Barr&#8217;s resignation today splashed itself all over the news in a perfect metaphor for what the Donald Trump administration has become.<\/p>\n<p>It symbolizes the chaos and confusion many of us saw coming.<\/p>\n<p>Barr&#8217;s letter doesn&#8217;t mention the word &#8220;resignation.&#8221; Indeed, it speaks so glowingly about Donald Trump it leaves many of us wondering whether Trump himself actually wrote it. Would it surprise you if it comes out that Trump penned a resignation letter from the AG? Me neither.<\/p>\n<p>Barr will leave office on Dec. 23. So, the Justice Department won&#8217;t have a permanent AG for the final month of the Trump administration. Nor will it have a permanent defense secretary, given that Trump fired Mark Esper a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Think of this: the nation&#8217;s top legal eagle and its defense boss are gone in the waning weeks of an administration that burned through countless Cabinet secretaries and chief advisers and aides.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is staggering out of office, giving way to President-elect Biden&#8217;s team that is forming daily.<\/p>\n<p>My head is spinning.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Barrquits%20%23DOJ%20%23POTUS%20%23MarkEsperfired&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com U.S. Attorney General William Barr&#8217;s resignation today splashed itself all over the news in a perfect metaphor for what the Donald Trump administration has become. It symbolizes the chaos and confusion many of us saw coming. Barr&#8217;s letter doesn&#8217;t mention the word &#8220;resignation.&#8221; Indeed, it speaks so glowingly about Donald &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45578\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Barr resignation: perfect metaphor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1414,1424,8203],"class_list":["post-45578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-doj","tag-donald-trump","tag-william-barr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45579,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45578\/revisions\/45579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}