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With this spat between Barr and Trump going on I looked it up and found this:
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The history and policy strongly suggest that, as a general matter, the Attorney General and subordinate prosecutors may not accept direction from the President but must make the ultimate decisions about how to conduct individual investigations and prosecutions, even at the risk of being fired for disobeying the President. The Constitution does not determine whether ultimate authority rests with the President or the prosecutors, leaving Congress to decide. Congress has not explicitly answered the question, but its silence since the late nineteenth century in the face of the evolving importance of prosecutorial independence suggests that Congress has acquiesced in a relationship in which the President may express views to the Attorney General, but the ultimate authority rests with the Attorney General or with subordinate prosecutors to whom the Attorney General delegates authority.
Your own Link and quote answered that question. The President ask, he may inquire ... he should not order.
The President has the right to an Opinion - it’s all ultimately decided by the Attorney General.
Oddly enough, this is Exactly what you Link says, what Attorney General Barr says AND what President Trump said. They “get it”, I “get it” .... the OP should “get it” because the Link an Quote from the Link establish it.
Your own Link and quote answered that question. The President ask, he may inquire ... he should not order.
The President has the right to an Opinion - it’s all ultimately decided by the Attorney General.
Oddly enough, this is Exactly what you Link says, what Attorney General Barr says AND what President Trump said. They “get it”, I “get it” .... the OP should “get it” because the Link an Quote from the Link establish it.
What Trump's saying:
"The President has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case." A.G. Barr This doesn’t mean that I do not have, as President, the legal right to do so, I do, but I have so far chosen not to!
We all know by now that Trump doesn't outright ask his henchmen to carry out his duties. He hints and suggests you to do what he wants. There are many people that have testified to it. That's the reason Barr couldn't answer Harris's question when he appear at a hearing. For Barr to say Trump didn't ask him means nothing, Cohen testified to that.
Trump can't intervene in sentencing or ask for investigations into his political opponents or enemy. Trump has pressured the DOJ to open investigations. His personal attorney has a backchannel to submit evidence about the Biden's to Barr. Something he couldn't get Ukraine to do. Trump wanted MCCabe and Clinton to be investigated. The judges can see what Trump is up to and they don't like it. Barr has carried out Trump's bidding with the hiring of Durham too. Barr applies Trump's talking points of collusion and spying. It speaks volumes when people at the State Department, DOJ and within the administration want nothing to do with the leadership of corruption. https://twitter.com/BrianDMcBride/st...81606752686081
The Department of Justice is a part of the Executive Branch of the United States.
With the POTUS as Chief Executive, that would seem to imply that the POTUS can indeed "control" the DOJ.
I'm not certain if there are certain limitations to said control however.
CN
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Can the President Control the Department of Justice?
Trump doesn't, Barr is his own man. 
