Perspective: Cartoonists skewer Barr and Trump amid release of Mueller report
By Michael Cavna Michael Cavna Writer/artist for Comic Riffs, covering visual storytelling, cartoon art/illustration, comedy/satire and animation. Email Bio Follow Writer/critic April 19 at 2:59 PM Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III had a job: Deliver his 448-page report about his investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election.
Once that redacted report was made public Thursday, political cartoonists had one job: Synthesize the news into a one-sheet visual take on President Trump and takeaways from Mueller’s portrait. Was there indeed “no collusion,” as Trump and Attorney General William P. Barr insisted? Or were Democratic leaders right to maintain that Trump’s conduct “amounted to obstruction of justice and necessitated further inquiry,” as The Washington Post reported?
Meanwhile, although satirists are accustomed to lampooning how Trump responds to criticism, their latest work reflects the degree to which many have found a new target in Barr. Here is how the first wave of cartoons has satirized the political optics and jockeying to frame the Mueller report: Tom Toles :How the Trayvon Martin tragedy led to Darrin Bell’s historic editorial cartooning Pulitzer
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