Posted on 06/20/2017 10:59:41 AM PDT by jazusamo
Former Attorney General Eric Holding is poised to take a more active role in opposing President Trump, telling Yahoo News in an interview published Tuesday that "now is the time to be more visible" — including weighting a 2020 presidential bid.
“Up to now, I have been more behind-the-scenes,” said Holder, who served for six years in the Obama administration. “But that’s about to change. I have a certain status as the former attorney general. A certain familiarity as the first African-American attorney general."
"There’s a justified perception that I’m close to President Obama. So I want to use whatever skills I have, whatever notoriety I have, to be effective in opposing things that are, at the end of the day, just bad for the country."
Holder has remained relatively quiet since leaving the Obama administration in April 2015. But now, Yahoo reports, he's charging back into politics and even considering running against Trump for the White House.
In the first months of Trump's presidency, Holder has been serving as outside counsel to the California state legislature, where he has helped Democrats devise a legal strategy for hampering the president's policies.
At a news conference in Los Angeles on Monday, the former attorney general spoke out in support of SB-54, a measure that would bar the Trump administration from forcing local police departments in California to help federal immigration officials deport undocumented immigrants.
"We’re here with a very clear purpose: to underscore the undeniable truth that preserving and enhancing trust, real and genuine trust between law enforcement and the diverse communities they serve, is essential for the safety and well-being of all residents of this great state — indeed, this great nation,” Holder said, according to Yahoo News .
Holder said he hadn't expected to reenter the political fray after leaving the Obama administration.
“I thought, frankly, along with everybody else, that after the election, with Hillary Clinton as president, I could walk off the field,” he said. “So when she didn’t win, I thought, ‘We’ll have to see how this plays out.’"
"But it became clear relatively soon — and certainly sooner than I expected — that I had to get back on the field and be in effective opposition.”
I'm amazed anyone cares anymore about this "first xyz-American" nonsense.
Weiner-Holder 2020?
dems desperate and deluded
Oh Goody!
He and Val-Jar have been busy in the Obama DC headquarters, huh?
Holder Weiner 2020
Eric the Red thinks himself too smart.
He is much more driven than his former boss. And smarter. He also has the coldest eyes I have seen face to face in a man.
Unless he becomes a convicted felon
Money will flow to Kamala not Eric
I think I can get him out, but some old lady has got a concrete hold on him.
Hopefully, he will have fled to a foreign country to avoid prosecution by then.
....Hopefully, he will have fled to a foreign country to avoid prosecution by then...
Holder should run...just not for office.
Go for it, you delusional chinless loser.
Regular Americans have had enough of black-run America. No more.
First AG in history to be held in Contempt of Congress. Wonderful.
Yep, exactly where he belongs.
Eric Holder - because running a corrupt Dem worked out so well the last election.
Just what we need, another Black Panther party president
or Holder-Weiner (in honor of our last FLOTUS)
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