William Barr, H.W. Bush-era attorney general, eyed as possible Sessions successor

President Trump wants to nominate William Barr, the George H.W. Bush-era leader of the Justice Department, as his next attorney general, sources told Fox News.

“Easy confirmation is a dead giveaway.“

Exactly, if it’s not a battle it’s a bad pick. Any nominee that gets more then a few Rat votes is a bad pick. In fact a straight party line with the 2 Rino sisters voting no would be good enough for me. Look at the wasted opportunity Wray was. Another deep state hack promoting the Russia crap.

“3. If Trump nominates Barr, then I’d say he was never as unhappy with Sessions as he has claimed to be for the last 18+ months.”

I have long believed this is to be the case. The swamp needs draining in so very many ways, and Trump has been successfully pursuing many of these avenues. Many swamp creatures in the bureaucracy have been deprived of their funding, their mandate and their marching orders, ever since Hillary Clinton failed to get elected. Many have gone into hiding, preoccupied with covering their tracks and now have very limited opportunity to further the deep state agenda.

The swamp is being drained - but in one regard there has been no draining at all - namely locking up the Obama Spygate coconspirators. If that is the kind of draining you were counting on, you’re most likely bitterly disappointed.

But some of the most vocal self-proclaimed Trump supporters were counting on exactly that, and will accept no substitute.

I think Trump long ago decided against having any part of his legacy as President be an effort to imprison his political adversaries. It’s highly questionable how successful such an effort would be and what the blowback would be for the Republican Party if they were to lock up substantial portions of the Obama administration. Even though they deserve it, would it be worth the political blowback? Wouldn’t they just get pardoned anyway, after becoming martyrs?

I think when Sessions became the scapegoat for Trump’s “failure” to lock up Hillary and the gang - Trump just kind of went along with it. I was hoping he’d come to Sessions’ defense - but great leaders lead - they don’t waste their breath trying to explain themselves to critics.

Thanks for posting link to the Kindle edition.

Barr got out of lawschool and went to work for see-eye-eeeeehhhh as, get this General Counsel for Southern Air Transport (the cee eye—eh front airline/air cargo company, which was an element of Air America, and air transport in several prominent... operations to include Contra supplying, and in Vietnam, Cambodia, and .. China— see GHW Bush).

Makes absolutely zero sense that he would be in consideration, at his age, and his membership in the number one Swamp connex lawfirm in DC. Not a good choice to clean a swamp they live off of.

It’s rather disheartening to read these threads and see the lack of understanding of so many Freepers about the reality with which Trump is dealing. If Barr is truly going to be his AG nominee it simply confirms that the swamp has successfully surrounded and cut him off from both information sources they don’t control, and from people/friends who really do support him.

He really is in a box/trap. He’s being contained and “handled” by his White House staff, advisors, attorneys, et al. and is truly alone. People just don’t realize how a President’s time and access to the outside world is tightly controlled by staff and “advisors”, especially John Kelly.

He came to Washington, DC with the advantage of being an outsider, not beholden to the Beltway Establishment. That also came with the disadvantage of not being able to know who he could trust, or not. He’s getting bad advice from his so-called advisors, and thus, we get these crazy, dangerous nominees who will serve the swamp, not him, and sabotage his agenda.

They are wearing him down, chipping away at his support structure, curtailing his ability to act on a myriad of issues, just like the Lilliputians tied Gulliver down with hundreds of tiny ropes.

It is a tragedy, for him, for us, and for the Republic.

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