Proof of Conspiracy: How Trump's International Collusion Is Threatening American Democracy

by Seth Abramson

William Barr’s evident hostility to conventional legal judgments and processes is of course mirrored by similar traits in appointees and advisers found throughout the Trump administration, which in spring 2019 began opposing all House subpoenas intended to further Democrats’ investigative oversight, regardless of their purpose, scope, or target.48 It is mirrored, too, in revelations about former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who despite overseeing a federal investigation that found substantial evidence that the president of the United States had run afoul of the law nevertheless secretly assured the president that he was “on his team” and that he could “land the plane” for Trump with respect to the special counsel’s Russia investigation.