Posted on 02/17/2020 9:50:17 AM PST by Signalman
The most important man in President Trump’s life right now is William Barr, the Attorney General of the United States. Yet, Mr. Trump may not understand that. However, the hate-Trump media brigades certainly do.
If Mr. Barr were to turn against the President, his re-election chances would be damaged. Significantly.
That’s because William Barr is a tough, honest prosecutor who is trying to uphold the crucial constitutional mandate of “equal justice for all.” That means a corrupt media is not the dispenser of justice, nor is a sitting President who may have a personal agenda.
The latest controversy over Roger Stone, accompanied by presidential tweets, has put the Attorney General in a tough spot. Mr. Stone was convicted of lying to authorities about his role in seeking damaging information against the democrats during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The sentencing recommendation from Justice Department prosecutors is seven to nine years in a federal penitentiary. On average, a convicted rapist in this country serves four and a half years in prison so you know something is amiss.
Almost immediately, President Trump tweeted his outrage - targeting the prosecutors. A short time later, four of them quit. That caused great joy and a spate of anonymous-sourced articles in The New York Times and The Washington Post, two organizations that are devoted to injuring President Trump.
Caught in the middle of the chaos is William Barr who then told ABC News that Mr. Trump’s tweeting about active criminal cases makes it hard for the AG to do his job.
Whereupon Fox Business Channel anchor Lou Dobbs questioned Barr’s “loyalty.”
But an attorney general’s loyalty is to his oath to uphold the constitution, not to any human being and that includes politicians who sometimes defy the human description.
So, now, the President and the Attorney General are, well, let’s use the word “unsettled.”
The ridiculous side of all this is - it didn’t have to happen. All President Trump had to do was wait until Roger Stone is sentenced and then issue a pardon. Presto, Mr. Stone could go bowling with you that very night.
But waiting is not Donald Trump’s style, confrontation is. If you read my book “The United States of Trump,” you know the President always relishes the fight.
But a battle with William Barr is not like the dustup with the weak former Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Barr is not a man to be pushed around and he does not want his professional reputation sullied. The crucial Durham investigation into federal corruption is underway and President Trump would be well advised to stay out of all Justice Department business and let those chips fall.
Mr. Trump should also understand that the national media is heavily invested in diminishing AG Barr because it fears what the Durham investigation might bring. The President would be foolish to help his enemies marginalize William Barr, who could expose disturbing FBI corruption that damaged Donald Trump.
Finally, President Richard Nixon tried to manipulate the Justice Department and that finalized his demise.
History can repeat itself.
I do not miss BOR.
AG Barr is too fat to be Trump’s “Wingman”, but Obama’s AG Holder who was a skinny Guy. Just sayin’...
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3816566/posts?page=549#549
Why do all these Omoeba holdovers and Swampies want him gone, then?
(There’s another link out there of TV talking heads who want him gone, too...)
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
· 22h
BREAKING: Durham and his team have not interviewed McCabe. At all. Concerning anything. Not #Spygate espionage. Not illegal FISA warrants. Not Flynn 302 doctoring. Not leaking and lying.
If McCabe hasn’t been interviewed, then it’s all being covered up.
Can even believers in the magic letter sustain a shred of confidence in Barr or Durham at this point?
Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ 32m
BREAKING: Special prosecutor John Durham & his team have been investigating the #SpyGate scandal since at least March 2019, yet almost a year later, they still have NOT interviewed the central figures in the scandal:James Comey nor Andrew McCabe nor John Brennan nor James Clapper
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1229460480940482561
I don't trust a lot of folks...
Bill O'Reilly is just one of them...
I don't trust Barr...either. He's part of the Swamp.
From what I read...Rosenstein is a lynch pin...And supposedly Barr won't go down that road...
We shall see..what we shall see...I guess.
I wonder if Barr has been warned he can go so far but no further in pursuing corruption, or otherwise the Deep State will have Trump killed.
What’s the timeline regarding accusations, investigations, developing airtight cases and indictments? A couple weeks? Months? And what point does any of it make if he brings anyone in front of an Obama appointee?
I’m still hoping for the best and that Mr. Durham doesn’t turn out to be the Great Pumpkin.
The DoJ is the political brain and nerve center of government. As we have seen, the deep state coalesces its power within the DoJ (and IC) bureaucracy. It is absolutely critical that a President have an ally as AG. We saw the great damage that a useless or traitorous AG can do in the form of Jeff Sessions. Obama made sure he had fellow travelers (and even black ones at that) to protect himself. I don’t think Obama was smart enough to realize that - but someone pulling Obama’s strings was.
I don’t know exactly what to think of Barr, but from my distant view, I think Barr will protect Trump, but he’s also pushed Trump into an uneasy truce with the deep state, to avoid what Barr feels is might be dangerous open-warfare with them.
Exactly what I’m thinking, Sam. Trump is far from being an idiot. When or if ever anyone is prosecuted from the JD, Trump is thinking ahead in case it does happen. Making some apparent distance from Barr (it seems).
If he is, things just might get real ugly...pray for peace and God’s will on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Something happened there....and it just kinda dropped off the radar....
Roger Stone trial was rigged from the onset the jury foreman was a ringer new trial is a must,they media is in spin mode again.
How reliable is Sperry?
There have been any number of LARPers attempting to discredit, co-opt, cash in on, or steal the thunder from Q.
Also...would Durham interview someone slated for a military tribunal?
“The AG (Barr) can’t be perceived as being “buddy-buddy” with Trump and doing Trump’s bidding, working in cahoots with him to get revenge on his political enemies.”
Unlike the filthy miserable treacherous wretch Holder.
Bill O’Reilly?
This is not helpful. I’m on the fence about whether Trump should fire Barr or not. Seems the leftists want him gone for all the wrong reasons. And conservatives want him gone for all the right reasons.
Actually it wasn’t long after that that the rumor (source reported to Rick Wiles of TruNews) was that with Poppy’s passing his sons didn’t want to continue the family business and so they made a truce with Trump. The explanation was that neither side would be mortally exposed or wounded and Trump agreed to put the Bushes’ man Barr in as AG to oversee the terms of the truce. (That is, to keep all related skeletons buried.)
I haven’t seen anything to discredit that information.
The difference with Holder is that Barr doesn’t have a fawning, obsequious press running cover for him and actually cheering him on.
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