Reporter having nervous breakdown?

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a27101724/william-barr-investigate-fbi-trump-russia/

William Barr Is Shooting Squid Ink for Republicans to Hide Behind

And we're off. Even if a photo leaks of the president* taking a paper bag full of rubles from Vladimir Putin outside the Kremlin walls, there will be "another side" in which Republicans can hide for electoral purposes. The squid-ink bazooka is fully loaded and primed. The conservative media apparatus has something to bellow about. William Barr has done his job. He's done the work he's been hired to do—part of which was summarized deftly by Senator Brian Schatz as "giving the cable-news universe something to freak out" over. Meanwhile, his press release will dominate that narrative

He also emphasized the importance of the big, stupid wall as part of the war on drugs, and specifically on opioids

He also staunchly defended his DOJ's decision not to defend the Affordable Care Act. But the main news was his announcement of his task force as part of Operation Distract And Deflect. And he spent most of the rest of the hearing telling Democratic senators to pound sand.