AG Barr and Trump are setting up an authoritarian power grab to kill the whistleblower inquiry
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/...blower-inquiry
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/...blower-inquiry
At base, Barr and the White House are applying maximal intimidation in order to keep the complaint from going public. And if it does go public in any sort of credible way (i.e., with a name attached to it), Barr and Trump will then have a self-fabricated foil in arguing that the disclosure wasn't legal. That will allow them to divert attention away from Trump's misconduct and instead create an argument over whether he has been unlawfully wronged.