Actually, a President publicly expressing his opinion is perfectly fine. Heck, it's just as fine as you expressing YOUR opinion...and it has the same power over people as yours.
Of course it is, because if Trump does it there is an approximately 100% chance you'll be on the first page of a thread defending him, because we see it every day.
But in the reality based world, what the President does in a particular case is roughly 180 degrees different, as different as things can be, versus an ordinary citizen like myself. For the president to publicly influence a case in favor of his friends
is corrupt. Look up 'corrupt justice system' and the leader of a government putting his considerable weight behind an outcome, when those in charge of that outcome WORK FOR HIM is exactly how a corrupt justice system operates. It's the rule of men, not of laws. There's no need to say anything more about that because I know you won't agree, because if Trump does something, it is, therefore, acceptable in your view, because it was done by Dear Leader. Q.E.D.
Trump gave no orders to Barr. Trump gave no orders to the judge. Trump gave no orders to a jury member. Trump gave no orders to Mueller.
In all of those cases, Trump only expressed his opinion. Just like you can.
These are the facts...not the stuff you have made up.
First of all, you don't know what orders Trump did or didn't give to Barr. You're asserting facts you cannot begin to prove.
Second, I didn't allege Trump 'gave orders' to the judge or the juror. And if you don't see a problem with the POTUS attacking a private citizen juror, then there's no reason to argue further. It's obvious it's a SERIOUS problem to all the rest of us who haven't drunk the Kool Aid.
Finally, of course what the BOSS says matters to a person making a decision more than some random person on the street, and when the boss is, according to Barr THE Justice Department, what the DoJ does is appropriately a reflection of the President's will, since POTUS is the DOJ. So you can't defend the Barr theory of the executive then claim when we see the implication of it in public in a very real way, POTUS expressing an opinion, then DOJ immediately jumping and doing as suggested by the head of DoJ, i.e.
Trump, that it doesn't matter.
That's what's so incredible about Barr's comments. He says tweets by the president prevent him from doing his job. Well, according to Barr in other contexts, doing what the President wants in a particular case IS BARR'S JOB as Barr is just an extension, an errand boy, of POTUS, since POTUS is the entire executive branch, head of it, every agency, and the executive branch appropriately does President's bidding as it MUST.
So Barr is just trying to pretend the implication of his theory doesn't mean what we all know it does mean. We see what the impact is in this case.