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Spend six months writing tell-all book. Get new job. Publish said book.

 

Gives him plenty of time to write a tell-all about life at Fox News.

 

He should have signed off telling Fox viewers to get their heads out of their asses.

 

I’m sure that FNC will dirty him in the press like a former Red Sox or Redskin

 

I guess we know what Barr and Rupert were meeting about.

 

Did Barr meeting with Murdock yesterday have anything to do with it?

(In at the same time!)

 

There's virtually no way he doesn't have an NDA.

 

The advantage to leaving Fox is that your new audience is composed of people who don't give a shit what Fox says.

 

Once that contract is over, no. No agent would let a client sign an NDA. He's not one of Ailes' sex assault victims.

 

Perfect. Appropriate.

 

Here's a question: would it be legal for Trump to be paying members of his executive branch out of his own pocket, or that of his campaign's, in addition to whatever (relative) pittance they receive from Uncle Sam? Just something I wonder whenever people act surprised that formerly reputable members of the political class would agree to work for this shit show of an administration. Like, is it possible that the Trump campaign or Trump Org approached Barr and said, look, what would we have to pay you to come work for us? Is there any law that would forbid such an arrangement?

Regarding Barr, I think he's a fixer, plain and simple. He's some billionaire donor's consigliere, a top-of-the-line version of Michael Cohen, dispatched by the Donors with the sole mission of cleaning up the mess that Trump has created and leveraging the power of the attorney general's office to maximize the chances that this country decides to keep the GOP in power for another four years. Or, Trump approached the billionaires and said, who's the best guy you know of that will be my guy, and what do I have to pay him.