A Real Attorney General – West Wing Reads

“Washington pile-ons are never pretty, but this week’s political setup of Attorney General William Barr is disreputable even by Beltway standards,” The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes.

“Democrats and the media are turning the AG into a villain for doing his duty and making the hard decisions that special counsel Robert Mueller abdicated . . . This trashing of Bill Barr shows how frustrated and angry Democrats continue to be that the special counsel came up empty in his Russia collusion probe.”

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“Democrats spent Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing trying to pin some serious wrongdoing on Attorney General William Barr, or at least on President Trump — and completely struck out,” the New York Post editorial board writes. “As the AG calmly noted, Mueller never claimed Barr’s memo was ‘inaccurate or misleading,’ only that ‘press reporting’ on it was.”

“A Las Vegas federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment [yesterday] against three alleged members of La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang for their involvement in a kidnapping and murder,” KSNV Las Vegas reports. Two of the three men charged are citizens of El Salvador, and the third is a citizen of Honduras. “All three are in the United States illegally.”

Congressional Democrats grossly misled Americans about tax cuts, and the mainstream media failed to hold them accountable for it, Scott Jennings writes in the Courier-Journal. “According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, just 17% of Americans believed their taxes went down. What’s the truth? Let’s ask The New York Times, which — after printing lie after lie regarding the tax cut — finally reported in April: ‘If you’re an American taxpayer, you probably got a tax cut last year.’”

“The U.S. Commerce Department’s blockbuster news, that the economy grew by a stunning 3.2 percent in the first quarter, is good news for everybody . . . A little bipartisan celebration of the news is in order,” The Washington Times editorial board writes. “Tax cuts, deregulation and renegotiated trade is working. This is all the more remarkable given how many ‘experts’ predicted economic catastrophe on the morning after the 2016 election.”