Barr pretends making taxpayers pay for Trump's defense against personal lawsuit is perfectly normal

Doing his best Dick Cheney impersonation, Attorney General William Barr pretended on Wednesday that the Justice Department defending Donald Trump against a personal defamation lawsuit was just another ho-hum run of the mill governmental pursuit. "This has become somewhat routine to the extent that the certification process has been delegated to an attorney in the tort section of the civil division of the Justice Department," Barr said during a press conference defending the move....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/9/9/1976163/-Barr-calls-Justice-Department-s-defense-of-Trump-defaming-an-alleged-rape-victim-routine