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Donald Trump is not a politician. He's a man who has no experience in politics. He's had to deal with corrupt politicians, corrupt media, and corrupt government workers trying to take him down for well over three years. The President may have "legal authority," but doesn't claim that in any of his Tweets. His comments are on current news stories, not how Barr should perform his job. Barr seems to be worried more about how he's perceived by everyone else, than he is about what the President says on Twitter. If anyone sounds like a baby, it's Barr who is crying that his job is hard enough without the President commenting on the news of the day.

I'm sure that the President's legal advisors are giving him far better advice than anyone here on FR could offer. It's possible they're telling him it would be better to wait until Stone's trial is over, or after his reelection before he contemplates any pardon...especially in light of what this country has gone through with the Mueller investigation, and impeachment. Democrats are still in power in the House, and are looking for anything to investigate. Now they're looking into how much the Secret Service pays for staying at Trump resorts. They failed in their emoluments case, and are now looking elsewhere.

None of us know whether Barr went to President Trump first before he went whining to the liberal media. If he didn't, then why respect a person who does that?

None of us know whether Barr went to President Trump first before he went whining to the liberal media.

I can pretty much guarantee you that he did.

In fact, I'm getting a sense that ABC is the Trump administration's preferred TV news outlet for staging theatrics for public consumption.

I think you've missed the point of Barr's staged "rant" here.

His comments are on current news stories, not how Barr should perform his job. Barr seems to be worried more about how he's perceived by everyone else, than he is about what the President says on Twitter. If anyone sounds like a baby, it's Barr who is crying that his job is hard enough without the President commenting on the news of the day.

Barr wasn't personally defensive in these remarks. He simply pointed out that one particular type of public communication -- specifically, about active DOJ cases -- undermines the DOJ.

When someone in a prosecutorial post says this, what he's saying is that this type of public commentary makes it harder to prosecute cases.

I think Barr just dropped a big hint about what's going on in the DOJ ... and he didn't have the Roger Stone case in mind when he said this.