Posted on 03/23/2020 9:56:26 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
This is a tweet to remember. – Many, including yours truly, have expressed concerns that the “cure” for this Chinese virus being prescribed by the federal, state and local governments may, if it becomes any sort of long-term effort, end up creating an economic catastrophe of such proportions that it would end up being worse than the effects of the virus itself. Last night, it became apparent that President Donald Trump shares that concern.
At 10:50 p.m. eastern time Sunday evening, the President issued this all-caps tweet:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!
This can only be taken as a positive signal that the President at least intends for this massive closing of a huge portion of our national economy to be a temporary phenomenon. With the questionable motives of Anthony Fauci and the CDC, and the natural inclination by bureaucrats at the FDA to work to prolong timelines in their endless turf protection efforts, it is good to know that, while the President has rightly followed most of their recommendations to this point, he remains skeptical and focused on producing the best possible outcome for the American people.
For further emphasis on this message, the President re-tweeted it at around noon ET on Monday, as this piece was being written. It is clearly something he wants all of his various audiences – you, the corrupt media, congress and his team of advisors – to understand. This is an extremely positive signal.
Meanwhile, on the John Durham front… – In an interview published Monday morning in the Wall Street Journal, Attorney General William Barr made sure to let it be known that his and U.S. Attorney John Durham’s effort to “investigate the investigators” has not fallen victim to the Chinese virus. From a report in the Washington Examiner:
Attorney General William Barr told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Monday that Durham, the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut, was in Washington, D.C., last week working on the high-profile inquiry with staffers.
“There’s some discombobulation, but part of what we’re trying to do is keep up the mission,” Barr said of the Justice Department’s commitment to proceed with criminal investigations, prioritize coronavirus-related fraud prosecutions, keep the justice system functioning amid court closures and trial suspensions, and pursue other Trump administration priorities during a deadly outbreak.
Last week, Fox News reported that Durham was on pace to finish his “investigation of the investigators” by the summer. One source “suggested the investigation could end as soon as July.” But another “said it could be closer to September, based on Durham’s progress, which could be hindered by the coronavirus pandemic rocking the nation and the globe.”
Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, also said this month that Durham’s inquiry is “due to be completed sometime this summer.” [End]
So, at least if you believe William Barr – a prospect that becomes harder and harder as time goes on without a single indictment of any of the treasonous members of the Obama-era Coup Cabal – Mr. Durham is still on the job and working towards some kind of conclusion. That conclusion had ultimately better include multiple indictments and prosecutions of the real bad actors who worked so hard to destroy our democratic processes, and not just of low-level flunkies who make convenient scapegoats.
Failure to do that would create a devastating blow to millions of Americans’ faith in our legal justice system.
So, thanks for the positive update, Mr. Barr, but some real actions would speak much louder than your comforting words.
Or, as The King would have put it:
A little less conversation, a little more action please All this aggravation ain’t satisfactioning me A little more bite and a little less bark A little less fight and a little more spark Close your mouth and open up your heart and baby satisfy me Satisfy me baby
That is all.
Positive news? Doesn't look positive to me.
“Meanwhile, on the John Durham front…”
Nothing. And that’s the way it will stay.
Protecting the Gang first, last and always.
They’ll just slow roll it all until The Outsider rides off into the sunset.
Sounds like pleading Barr to get off his fat ass and do something?
The DNC has to be in a panic and pleading desperately with the media to spike all stories showing Trump doing the right thing.
We are giving these guys more hamburgers to be paid for next week?
September can (will) easily slip into October, and then November - making ANY findings public only AFTER the next election. The Deep State wants and needs any report to be secret until after it can damage them further.
If Trump wins, expect another "mistakes were made", some wrist-slaps, and maybe some low-level staffers getting reassigned.
If Trump loses (to Biden, or the hand-picked replacement at the brokered convention), it will never see the light of day.
Trump is doing fine given the circumstances. Bar has done nothing and there is no sign that will change. Durham is a complete unknown.
It would cause a blow to the faith in our system that together with this virus the country will not survive. Maybe that’s a good thing. It will give us the opportunity for “Pest Control” of these Rats.
Trump has someone reading “my” (LOL) Freeper posts.
When is the 15 day period over, soon?
March 31.
It was supposed to be early spring,March.
I figure Monday, March 30 would be day 15.
Failure to do that would create a devastating blow to millions of Americans’ faith in our legal justice system.
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Too late for that. The horse has already left the barn.
Durham’s report, if anyone will even remember what happened by then, will be another nothingburger.
DC doesn’t punish DC and we live in a tiered justice system that protects elites. Everybody already knows that.
The blindfold has been torm from Lady Justice’s eyes.
The 15 day period will be over and become the 30 day period.
Write a report why don’t they. That will teach them.
Don’t get your hopes up. The government is playing us. They had to START with 15 days but knew it would be longer.
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