House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday accused Atty. Gen. William Barr of orchestrating a “cover-up of the cover-up” of President Trump’s efforts to solicit Ukraine’s help for his 2020 reelection campaign, escalating Democratic criticism that Barr acts more like a presidential fixer than the nation’s top law enforcement official.

The accusation comes two days after a declassified White House memorandum revealed that Trump repeatedly told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a July 25 phone call that he would instruct Barr to call him, thrusting the attorney general directly into the political firestorm of the impeachment proceedings that Pelosi announced this week.