Posted on 08/01/2020 1:44:55 AM PDT by Libloather
Attorney General William P. Barr reiterated this week that he will not wait until after November’s election to release whatever U.S. Attorney John Durham finds in his examination of the FBI’s 2016 investigation into President Trump’s campaign, raising fears among Democrats that Barr and Durham could upend the presidential race with a late revelation.
Republicans have been eagerly awaiting Durham’s findings - hopeful that the prosecutor Barr handpicked last year to investigate the investigation of possible coordination between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia will validate their fierce criticisms of the bureau. Democrats, meanwhile, have worried that the Connecticut U.S. attorney is aiding a political stunt designed to undercut an investigation that dogged Trump’s presidency.
As the election draws near - and much of what Durham is doing remains a mystery - both sides have grown increasingly anxious, with liberals fretting over an October surprise, and Republicans wondering whether Durham’s work could push into the next administration.
Barr has repeatedly and stridently attacked the Russia investigation - saying that what happened to Trump was “one of the greatest travesties in American history” - while hinting vaguely that he is “troubled” by what he knows Durham has found. That has drawn accusations from Democrats and legal analysts that he is inappropriately talking about an ongoing case and prejudging its outcome.
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Isn't Blumenthal the one who said he served in Vietnam - but really didn't? I'm pretty sure it was him.
Everyone knows what happened. The only surprise left is if any indictments are handed out.
I think Barr got the message he is being treated as a hostile witness. There is no sense in playing political softball
Yes, it’s about time Barr got the memo that these are not decent people who disagree they are hateful ideologues who want to take down the county. Releasing hell on them would be a patriotic move.
The Democrats would do this in heartbeat, if they had the chance. Remember the indictment of Caspar Weinberger?
prediction: Durham won’t find squat and Hillary et al will remain free as birds.
Re: “Republicans have been eagerly awaiting Durham’s findings”
LOL!
The only thing Durham and Barr will find are a dozen new excuses for why no one will be prosecuted.
Not that it matters.
Every trial would be conducted in Washington D.C. or New York City, where no Democrat will ever be convicted for a politically related crime.
That’s why they want to DESTROY BARR!
Why should the truth alter the election?
Wouldnt it be the case that withholding critical information is the real election manipulation?
A "case"? What's this about a "case"?
All he's supposed to be doing is writing a report.
A "case" means something else is going on.
/confused Democrat impression
Barr won't wait, because he has already told Durham to wait!
FACE - more WORDS - no DEEDS Billy Bagpipes. YOU have choices...EVERY DAY...like all of us. WHAT will hairFACE - WORDS - DEEDS say? What shell is the peanut hiding under?
Does he blow the saxophone, like Comey?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub72eylahJg
Injustice Dept. FIB ALERT!
It is a war and AG Barr refused to be its first casualty.
I’ll applaud the loudest if he can jerk a big drain plug from the bottom of the SWAMP.
Why wait til the last minute? Let’s have a string of August, September AND October surprises!
Bump
**“There’s a real danger, in fact an urgent threat, that anything the Department of Justice does will be timed to aid the president,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D- Conn.) said in an interview, adding, “Barr has proven ready, willing and able to distort, distract and deceive.”**
And the dems would not do that if they were in that boat.. hardy har!
The dems didn’t help their side, treating the AG like they did last week. Barr sitting in the seat of the AG.. it wasn’t smart to try to humiliate him.
Yes.
Or, as Howie Carr calls him, “Danang Dick” 😷
It’s never good to make such broad statements because one looks silly in the end.
Silver just got a whole bunch of time.
Look it up
To the Democrat media, prosecutions and indictments are "political stunts".
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