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As Trump Campaigns on Law and Order, Barr Rolls Out Crime-Fighting
Initiatives

Masood Farivar

   WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr's enthusiastic support for
   President Donald Trump's law and order agenda during the final months
   of a presidential campaign is sparking debate about the appropriate
   role of his department in electoral politics.

   When Trump visited Kenosha, Wisconsin, last Tuesday to tour damaged
   businesses and to announce more than $40 million in emergency funding
   for public safety for Kenosha and Wisconsin, he brought Barr with him.

   Echoing Trump's campaign rhetoric about a militant takeover of the
   protests over racial injustice and police brutality, Barr told a
   gathering of local leaders that it was under Trump's direction that he
   had only days before assembled a group of federal agents to dispatch to
   Kenosha.

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