Attorney General Bill Barr (Office Sen. Mitt Romney)

While President Donald Trump will probably go down as one of the worst presidents in modern history, Attorney General Bill Barr should also be remembered as a terrible top-ranking official.

Right out of the gate, Barr showed he was going to be acting in favor of Trump and denying the truth. His first act as attorney general was to release the summary of the Mueller report, which declared that Trump had been exonerated. However, when you actually read the report, which I did, it didn’t clear Trump. In fact, Special Counsel Robert Mueller clearly stated that he would have indicted Trump, but couldn’t because of Justice Department regulations.

This act was a clear sign that Barr was going to be looking out for Trump’s interests ahead of the country’s interests. This shouldn’t have been surprising. Barr has a history of cover-ups. He worked to bury charges during the Iran Contra scandal in the Reagan administration. Unfortunately, this fact was largely overlooked during his confirmation hearing.

His performance has only gotten worse. He has made bizarre attacks on liberals claiming they were ruining the culture. Currently, he is disputing a report, commissioned by his own department, to look into accusations of the Obama administration spying on the Trump campaign. When the investigation, lead by FBI Inspector General Michael Horowitz, declared the FBI counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign was justified, Barr said he wasn’t going to accept it. Basically, he’s mad the report didn’t produce the findings he wanted

“Barr, a vocal defender of President Donald Trump, said he disagreed with the inspector general that the FBI had enough information to open the investigation and particularly to use surveillance on a former Trump campaign aide,” according to the AP.

But more ominously, Barr has criticized communities who have protested the police. In a speech at a Justice Department ceremony, he claimed that if certain communities didn’t stop criticizing law enforcement, they shouldn’t expect police protection.

“[Americans] have to start showing, more than they do, the respect and support that law enforcement deserves,” said Barr, according to the Washington Post. “if communities don’t give that support and respect, they might find themselves without the police protection they need.”

Rep. Adam Schiff best summed up Barr during a recent interview on “The Stephanie Miller” show. Schiff called him, “the second most dangerous man in America.”

This statement is just shocking. Essentially Barr is saying the black community, because that’s what he was referring to, should shut up and take it.

This is also blatantly illegal. The U.S. Constitution is supposed to guarantee freedom of speech, and protect individuals against retaliation from the government for stating their opinion. If black communities are unsatisfied with police work, it is their constitutional right to protest, as long as they do it legally.

Also, if a police department refuses to carry out its duties, in order to punish a community who protested its behavior, I believe that would be dereliction of duty and open them up to all kinds of lawsuits.

Additionally, the black community has valid reasons to protest both the police force and the criminal justice system. There are still major issues with police use of force against black people and inequalities in the criminal justice system.

The New York Times recently reported on an ongoing lawsuit involving the New York Police Department. A group of black and Latino officers claim they were ordered by senior officers to target black and Latino men and ignore White, Jewish and Asian lawbreakers.

I don’t need to explain that this is blatantly discriminatory and illegal behavior, but according to Barr, the black community is supposed to be silent while this is going on!

Barr’s actions have even been criticized by his predecessor Eric Holder.

“The American people deserve an attorney general who serves their interests, leads the Justice Department with integrity and can be entrusted to pursue the facts and the law, even — and especially — when they are politically inconvenient and inconsistent with the personal interests of the president who appointed him. William Barr has proved he is incapable of serving as such an attorney general. He is unfit to lead the Justice Department,” said Holder in a Washington Post editorial.

Rep. Adam Schiff best summed up Barr during a recent interview on “The Stephanie Miller” show. Schiff called him, “the second most dangerous man in America.”