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Graham blasts Democratic colleague Hirono: You have ‘slandered’ Barr
The Washington Times ^ | May 1, 2019 | Jeff Mordock

Posted on 05/01/2019 12:21:10 PM PDT by jazusamo

In the most fiery exchange so far during Attorney General William P. Barr’s Senate Judiciary testimony, Sen. Lindsey Graham interrupted questioning to accuse Sen. Mazie Hirono of “slandering” the Justice Department’s top official.

“You have slandered this man from top to to bottom,” Mr. Graham said. “You want more of this line of questioning, you are not going to get it.

The moment came while Ms. Hirono, Hawaii Democrat, was grilling Mr. Barr with questions about allegations that President Trump sought to thwart special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.

But she also called Mr. Barr a liar and accused him of trying to conceal Mr. Trump’s alleged misdeeds.

“Being attorney general of the Untied States is a sacred trust,” she said. “You have betrayed that trust. America deserves better. You should resign.”

(Excerpt) Read more at outline.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: 116th; agbarr; barr; hirono; lindseygraham; maziehirono; senatejudiciarycom; slander; trumprussia; williambarr
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To: cuban leaf

” It was a lot of fun to watch Barr become a brick wall to their spit balls.”

It helps our side to have Barr pissed off at them. Let them continue their nastiness. Voters are watching too.


61 posted on 05/01/2019 12:58:23 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: EagleUSA

She needs to get Sumnered....


62 posted on 05/01/2019 12:58:25 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: jazusamo

Hirono is destroying her own party. Who votes for these people?


63 posted on 05/01/2019 12:58:42 PM PDT by FreedBird
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To: malach

Well said, I couldn’t agree more.


64 posted on 05/01/2019 12:59:15 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

Hirono is the worst kind of stupid. She’s unable to apprehend how she is regarded by reasonable people.


65 posted on 05/01/2019 1:00:52 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: pgyanke
The Deep State (GOP wing) pushed Sessions as AG and he recuses himself three days into office? That doesn't happen without premeditation.

Just like The New York Times and The Washington Post their little Mueller hand grenade yesterday, before Barr's scheduled testimony today.

EVRYTHING is coordinated and premeditated.

66 posted on 05/01/2019 1:02:25 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: FreedBird

I’m amazed how stupid they are. Everyone on this forum knows what Mueller’s letter to Barr was about, but these dumbass senators and the left wing media repeatedly mislead the public.

Problem is, they know that the majority of people out there are just as dumbass as they are.


68 posted on 05/01/2019 1:04:19 PM PDT by nikos1121 (Are you on the Daily Cryptogram Ping List?...Please join our Fun Train)
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To: jazusamo

It was a disgusting display. She should be kicked off of any committee she is a part of.


69 posted on 05/01/2019 1:04:57 PM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: Meet the New Boss

This is where Barr should have reminded her that Sessions found out later he was advised wrongly on recusal and Sessions offered to resign but President said no.

Barr missed this point big time.


70 posted on 05/01/2019 1:05:17 PM PDT by Engedi
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To: an amused spectator; pgyanke

DOJ has some sort of ethics committee that makes those kind of determinations. At the time Sessions went through the process most of the people who were on staff who make those decisions were Obama appointees.

Barr said he wasn’t going to recuse himself regardless of what that committee said because of the power he has that comes with the position and his own conscience.

Sessions made the wrong judgement.


71 posted on 05/01/2019 1:05:28 PM PDT by marajade (Skywalker)
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To: FreedBird
"These Senators are not fit for office. They are poisoned with hatred and anger."

And this is at minimum. Their bizarre behaviour also raises the question: What are they trying to hide?

72 posted on 05/01/2019 1:05:53 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Engedi

Barr can’t know everything.


73 posted on 05/01/2019 1:06:41 PM PDT by marajade (Skywalker)
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To: EEGator

Hirono is not Hawaiian . She is a Japan born Japanese ‘naturalized ‘ U.S. immigrant .

With a VERY sketchy immigration story


74 posted on 05/01/2019 1:09:16 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: jazusamo

I really question her intelligence. Let’s face it a majority of the people in congress are not the brightest bulbs.


75 posted on 05/01/2019 1:10:23 PM PDT by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold.)
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To: jazusamo

Totally agree it should have been stopped! And why was Barr not allowed to respond either? Disgraceful! This was not a hearing to ask questions of Barr, rather it was a platform for Democrats to make speeches and further publicly smear Trump and Barr. I hate these people so much!


76 posted on 05/01/2019 1:11:13 PM PDT by BlueHorseShoe
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To: PGR88

Your Attorney General has the president’s back.

Bobby Kennedy, obviously Barr with Bush, Holder with Obama.

Sessions? OMG. Terrible. How did a special counsel ever get the approval? From whom?

Barr, impresses me more and more.


77 posted on 05/01/2019 1:11:45 PM PDT by nikos1121 (Are you on the Daily Cryptogram Ping List?...Please join our Fun Train)
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To: butlerweave

Makes Barbara Boxer look like a Mensa scholar.


78 posted on 05/01/2019 1:12:13 PM PDT by technically right
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To: Meet the New Boss

One thing I didn’t hear when they were discussing Trump wanting Mueller to be removed from the investigation for conflicts of interest was why. One main thing is Mueller applying for a job with the Trump administration and not getting it. That right there was a disqualifier.


79 posted on 05/01/2019 1:12:56 PM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

How about imprisonment in Gitmo?


80 posted on 05/01/2019 1:14:03 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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