Fascinating Dynamic
In a recent comment I pointed out that most of Trump's legal advisers--certainly the most prominent--are conservative Catholic lawyers. To include his longtime political adviser, Kellyanne Conway, to whom to little credit is given. Also Mick Mulvaney. Other names on that list? Try these: Don McGahn, Leonard Leo, Emmett Flood, Pat Cipollone, Bill Barr. I don't doubt that there are others. At least several of these folks are associated with Opus Dei. They're all super competent and have served Trump as well as if not better than any other group in the administration.
Who else has heard that Jorge Bergoglio--he dresses in white and lives in Vatican City--supported Hillary Clinton against Trump in 2016? Not just with words, but with cash infusions. I've been hearing that all along. So now Greg Rubini--yep, that Greg Rubini--has a long thread that starts out like this:
1. by the way:
not just the Italian Government,
also the Vatican was involved in the SpyGate on Trump.1. by the way:
not just the Italian Government,
also the Vatican was involved in the SpyGate on Trump.
There's not much of actual news in the thread--it's mostly about Obama connections to former Italian PM Matteo Renzi, a favorite of Bergoglio. Still, people like Ciaramella and Comey enter in, which is interesting. They both attended a big do that Obama threw for Renzi in October, 2016. Obama has since met with Renzi (also in retirement) in Italy, and of course John Durham has been earning frequent flyer miles traveling between the US and Italy.
Note that Bergoglio is not a fan of Opus Dei and, if anything, even less of Donald Trump. So you can count on it that he has no use for any of those Catholic lawyers who are or have been employed by Trump.
With all that in mind, here's an interesting video titled: DONALD TRUMP: Vatican Public Enemy No. 1. The guy in the picture next to Jeffrey Sachs is a cardinal named Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo , a great favorite of Bergoglio who is notoriously anti-US. The first 20 minutes of the video are of general interest regarding conservative Catholic attitudes toward Trump. But the the Vatican attitude toward Trump is front and center at about the 14:50 - 18:50.
I have no doubt that Bill Barr is aware of all of this.