Posted on 05/03/2019 11:19:53 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Attorney General William Barr portrayed himself as an apolitical elder statesman at his confirmation hearing. He declared he'd rather resign than be asked to fire special counsel Robert Mueller without cause and insisted the prosecutor he'd known for decades would never involve himself in a witch hunt as the president claimed.
But now Barr has emerged as arguably the most divisive figure in Donald Trump's administration. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused him on Thursday of lying a charge the Justice Department called reckless and false and House Democrats are poised to hold him in contempt.
His appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week accelerated calls for his resignation after he said Trump had been falsely accused and he spun politically damning episodes in Mueller's report in the president's favor.
Barr might have seemed an unlikely lightning rod given his long government career, his distance from Trump's inner circle and his age, 68, that he said made him unconcerned with political advancement. But he had telegraphed his sympathetic view of strong presidential powers surely a useful viewpoint for Trump in a memo to the Justice Department last year that criticized Mueller's Trump-Russia obstruction of justice investigation. His latest testimony, including that Trump's actions weren't criminal, reaffirmed that philosophy and, to critics, established Barr as the president's protector .
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As opposed to “WING MAN”!
Indictments are coming. There is too much evidence of spying and conspiracy. I'd bet my 1958 Chevy Impala on it.
That's pure fantasy. Barr didn't "spin" anything. He gave the spectrum of interpretation that could be made about Trumps actions. As a prosecutor, where you have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, he was explaining where that reasonable doubt would come in, knowing that in a courtroom, that's exactly what a defense team would argue.
He was explaining to the morons the reasonable doubt that EXIST thereby REQUIRING the DOJ to not recommend indictment.
The press stupidity is an amazing spectacle to behold
It's not stupidity (other than they want to believe we're stupid).
This is how the Democrats and their media puppets coordinate their 'narratives'.
Keep your ears open to Democrats and the media now calling Barr Trumps' 'protector' just as Democrats and the media created the narrative Cohen was Trumps' 'fixer'.
Repeat the lie until it's implanted in the minds of the public and they mindlessly repeat it and believe it.
It’s ok for Barr to protect the President
Barr needs to issue indictments by the thousands against the Trump enemies intent on over throwing the government.
The crime would be not protecting the President
Don’t worry Barr ,Trump has your back
Protect Trump from what? Mueller finished his report finding Trump was not guilty of any wrongdoing. They act as if the investigation is still ongoing.
The ‘rats must surely be missing “The Great Recuser” Jeff Sessions about now.
AG Barr can care less what those a-holes think.
In the mind of many of the dems I've communicated with, the investigation is ongoing - it's just dropped into the House, State of NY, etc. The hard left folks will tell you it's just getting started. It's foolish to think it's over.
Top of the hour stupid news all day has been released the entire unredacted report which is a complete crock obviously
the full on mass media propaganda campaign to attack attack attack attack attack is happening full on I dont think anybody really buys it anymore
So at this point with the real AG I think it just becomes entertainment rather than a real threat Do you are a great and wonderful president Donald J Trump
They can act like their grand Russia hoax narrative never happened but I think they know the gig is up
They have absolutely no credibility now so all of their little attacks are making them just look more and more guilty to Sane and rational people
They dual affect is also to make the Attorney General really really hate these people and want to see them go down
Its like theyre so over-the-top that theres no over-the-top-ness left!
It is amazing to notice the complete coordination between the DNC and Democrats and the media
The democrats and stooge media seem to think Barr will back off in hopes that they will quit saying bad things about him. This ploy has worked extremely well on Republicans in the past. I get the impression that Barr couldn’t care less.
I also get the sense that their old games don’t matter anymore. A new paradigm has emerged. You can’t stop the truth as long as there are people who you can’t fool.
Except the ones saying this are the Democrats’media. I suggest THEY all resign.
There looking for someone to say he sexily assaulted them 40 yrs ago when he was in high school.
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