Earlier this Monday morning came the official December solstice with a short day followed by a long night, sort of like the reality of all of 2020, with not much light in a shit-long night — at least Billy Barr bounced out with bells ringing the legal ears (h/t Susie):

Undercutting Trump, Barr says there’s no basis for seizing voting machines, using special counsels for election fraud, Hunter Biden https://t.co/VJxL9uMNRc

— Suburban Guerrilla ? (@SusieMadrak) December 21, 2020

Barr held his last press conference today — he creeps out on Wednesday — and he at long last gave the T-Rump some shit-on-a-stick. Via CNN this afternoon:

Attorney General William Barr on Monday rejected several of President Donald Trump’s inflammatory and unfounded statements regarding the presidential election, saying at a news conference that he doesn’t plan to appoint a special counsel to investigate President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter or the election.

“If I thought a special counsel at this stage was a right tool and was appropriate, I would name one, but I haven’t and I’m not going to,” Barr said in response to a question on the presidential election.
He said that widespread fraud wasn’t found in this election.
Barr also roundly rejected suggestions from the President’s supporters in recent days who’ve called for the US government to seize voting machines.

“I see no basis for seizure of machines by the federal government,” Barr said Monday.
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“There is fraud unfortunately in most elections, I think we’re too tolerant of it,” he said. But in this election, Barr said, he stands by the finding that there was no systemic or broad based fraud, a finding the President refuses to admit.
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On the SolarWinds cyber attack that affected several agencies in the US government, Barr said, “It certainly appears to be the Russians.”
Barr added that he agreed with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on this conclusion.
Trump over the weekend downplayed the massive cyberattack on US federal government agencies and contradicted Pompeo’s statement, saying without evidence that the attack may have come from China.

Bill Barr is way-detestable and has been for decades since when he waded into the Ron Reagan presidency, and later was AG under Bush senior, always a bootlicker for Oval Office power-grabbers and laws bent to serve his hypocritical moral tastes. However, he did the country great disservice in backing the T-Rump’s every wish — he’ll be hated long after today.
And this from last week an example:

Barr seems to have been pushed out for not going quite far enough to abuse his position for Trump’s benefit, however unconscionably far he did go. The reason may be ridiculous, but good riddance. https://t.co/jDnVmNS3Yn

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) December 17, 2020

And onward we go…

Laws are weird — Mark Twain: “Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.”

(Illustration: ‘Dirty Harry‘ pop art print. found here).