I wholeheartedly disagree. The damage of a trumpeted contempt citation against AG Barr would be a higher price to pay than defending the privilege claim. The mediots are going to push the dem party line anyway, so...
It should have just been blasted out that what the House Dems were demanding IS illegal.
The "blast" would be deflected by the mediots' rantings, IMO. Now, should the dems decide to pursue a lawsuit against the privilege claim, they will have to answer for their demands that AG Barr violate law in a court. It's very black and white - I do not see how they can justify it legally. Even the Watergate grand jury information was only released under court order - and the dems have failed to pursue such a court order.
Also, consider that tweet storms from President Trump are only so useful in getting his enemies to back down. Under the privilege claim, they will have to fight a protracted battle in the courts to invalidate their own laws, which serves the dems' interests much less than getting AG Barr to violate the law.
President Trump does not play the Washington DC game. He protects his people, when they do their job. AG Barr is doing his job very well at the moment, IMHO.
“The damage of a trumpeted contempt citation against AG Barr would be a higher price to pay than defending the privilege claim.”
But they get the damage of a trumpeted contempt citation of AG Barr anyway!
This just enables another avenue of attack: the AG 4 page report is a coverup, AG redacted full report is a coverup,...now executive privilege is a coverup.
All that other stuff is just white noise that allows them more opportunity to keep their narrative alive. Whereas if the administration had just said “We will NOT violate federal law to comply with the House illegal request. “ It would be over Full Stop.
Oh my. It looks like the Demedia just got the damage of a trumpeted contempt citation against AG Barr. WHO KNEW ??!!