Pelosi: Barr committed a crime by lying to lawmakers [developing]

The Hill ^ | May 2, 2019 | The Hill staff

[jazusamo]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday said Attorney General William Barr committed a crime by lying to lawmakers during his testimony on Capitol Hill.

"What is deadly serious about it is the attorney general of the United States of America was not telling the truth to the Congress of the United States. That's a crime," Pelosi said during a press conference.

Her comments come a day after Barr was grilled by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee over his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian election interference.

Barr was roundly criticized for his performance during the hearing, which came shortly after reports emerged that Mueller had expressed frustration with Barr's memo summarizing the report's key findings.

DEVELOPING

[rjsimmon]

This nonsense would probably stop (or at least me significantly attenuated) were a GOP Congressman or Senator to shout "Sedition" in their respective chamber.

[Paulie]

Good Lord these people are just like little children.

They are making a mockery of the United States Government.

Then citizen Donald Trump used to say other countries are laughing at us. Well, this circus is one major reason why.

[bingoplayer]

This is completely over the top. With the crushing disappointment in the finding of “no collusion no obstruction” The socialist have dissembled into howling madness in defeat of their lies and narratives. The key is to meet this with indictment after indictment and to finally open a legitimate investigation of hillary clinton and to meet their madness with equal outrage and disgust. I see people going to the streets very soon. This is WAR. TRUMP 2020 and Don Jr, 2024!!

[eyeamok]

She is Publicly Intimidating the Chief Prosecutor that is Investigation Herself and most of her Comrades.

This is what Obstruction of Justice looks like

[vette6387]

“I love it. Pelosi has managed to piss off a very powerful brilliant man and fill him with resolve to crush her and the Demoncrat syndicate.”

Yss, she’s left holding the hand grenade from which she just pulled and threw away the safety pin!
Note to Nan, hand grenade delay trains are supposed to be 5 seconds, but they usually don’t make it to 3!

[Lurkinanloomin]

Pelosi is the one who filed false documents declaring Obama was eligible to be President.

[arthurus]

Trump said something that wasn’t “Trump is guilty” and therefore lied and should be indicted for something.

[ExTxMarine]

Last month, Barr was asked why the Mueller TEAM was upset with his summary. The question was in reference to the hearsay that some Mueller team members were mumbling about his summary. He answered that he was not sure, but thinks that it was due to they wanted more fluff and innuendo in his summary, instead of the "guilty/not guilty" verdict reported.

Then yesterday they asked him about his conversation and letter from Mueller, to which he responded that Mueller was upset about his summary lacking enough fluff and innuendo that would make Trump look bad.

The Mueller TEAM and Mueller are two different entities! Therefore, he did NOT lie about what he did and did not know for certain concerning the hearsay and whining of the Mueller TEAM! This isn't even basic "leagalese." This is called English 101!

Words have meaning! I would LOVE for Pelosi or anyone else to go to court with this charge! It would be so comical that they would probably be laughed out of the courthouse!

[arthurus]

I think a significant reason that Barr got the AG job was his ability to remain unflappable under insane questioning and absurd charges.

[jazusamo]

Good article!

“We have multiple criminal leak investigations underway,” Barr responded.

AG Barr has the members of the cabal, the democrats and the leftist media scared to death because they know he's not going to back off.

[petitfour]

What did he lie about?

[TheBattman]

Hey Nanci - care to elaborate - an itemized list of supposed lies would be a good starting point. But how about this - if you cannot validate your claim, you immediately step down from office, tendering your resignation, effective immediately. And you can take Senator Hirano the rabid lie-spewing witch with you.

[jazusamo]

Bump!

[misanthrope]

AND HE’S A RACIST TOO!!!!!!!!

[Jewbacca]

“op their whole agenda to transform America into a third world sh**hole like Venezuela.”

Well, you live pretty grand in those countries when you are politically connected and get really rich.

I went to school with a Mexican National who made it big in Mexico building government buildings. He flew my whole family out from Israel — in his jet.

Great two weeks.

[Mr. K]

I am getting SO EFFING SICK of these bass turds...!!!!!!!!!!!

[Yardstick]

Yeah, they’re just flooding the zone with confusion and slander at this point. It’s all they’ve got. Of course they are greatly helped in this by the compliant media.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Vaguely looks like Mueller.

[maggief]

BOOM!

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/01/blumenthal_vs_barr_will_you_turn_over_notes_of_your_call_with_mueller_barr_no.html

SEN. RICHARD BLUMENTHAL (D-CT): Did anyone, either you or anyone on your staff, memorialize your conversation with Robert Mueller?

BILL BARR, ATTORNEY GENERAL: Yes.

BLUMENTHAL: Who did that?

BARR: There were notes taken of the call.

BLUMENTHAL: May we have those notes?

BARR: No.

BLUMENTHAL: Why not?

BARR: Why should you have them?

SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC), CHAIRMAN: I’ll tell you. We’ve got to end this. But I’m going to write a letter to Mr. Mueller, and I’m going to ask him, is there anything you said about that conversation he disagrees with.

[Boogieman]

So what does she propose to do? Refer AG Barr to AG Barr for prosecution?