Bill Barr has intervened to try and save Trump from a democratic election | Joe Lockhart

"The iconic image of America’s justice system is a blindfolded woman holding a scale with the inscription: Justice is Blind.

Under the Trump Administration, with attorney general Bill Barr leading the way, the Justice Department’s new motto has become “robbing Justice blind”.

William Barr, a former attorney general under George HW Bush, was the president’s choice to lead the Justice Department after President Donald Trump found Jeff Sessions too weak or principled to do his dirty work. Barr auditioned for the job by sending an unsolicited 20-page memo to the president arguing the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller was illegitimate. That was all Trump needed to hear.

His first act as AG was to totally mischaracterise the findings of the report from Mueller to the public and then hold back the release of the actual report for weeks. It had the intended effect of neutering Mueller and his team.