Posted on 07/08/2019 2:22:43 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Attorney General William Barr in a new interview blasts House Democrats for seeking to put on a "public spectacle" with former special counsel Robert Mueller's scheduled public appearance before Congress next week.
President Trump's top law enforcement official told The Associated Press in a new interview on Monday that he would also support Mueller if the former FBI chief chose not to "subject himself” by giving testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on July 17.
Barr also reportedly told the newswire that the Department of Justice (DOJ) would seek to fight off efforts by House Democrats to subpoena members of Mueller's investigative team, which includes 19 attorneys as well as other personnel.
Mueller, who is under subpoena, has not provided any indications that he plans to bow out of the highly anticipated congressional testimony, which is expected to be one of the largest major spectacles on Capitol Hill in recent history.
The committee subpoenaed the reluctant former special counsel to testify after weeks of negotiations and after Mueller publicly stated that he does not wish to testify before Congress.
Mueller has maintained he will not go beyond the four corners of his report.
Democrats are eager to press Mueller on the 10 episodes of possible obstruction of justice by Trump as laid out in the report.
The Mueller report says the investigation did not find sufficient evidence to conclude there was coordination between members of the Trump campaign and Russia, but the special counsel did not make a determination either way as to whether the president obstructed justice.
"If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so," Mueller said in late May during his first public remarks about the probe.
Barr along with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and other DOJ officials ultimately made the decision the report did not include sufficient evidence to charge the president with a crime -- a call Democrats say is theirs to make.
Trump and his GOP allies celebrated the announcement, touting that the investigation proved no collusion, no obstruction.
Barr's involvement in the determination as well has his handling over the release of a redacted version of the Mueller report in April made him grow into large target for Democrats, with some accusing him of being a political hack and calling for his resignation.
Republicans, meanwhile, have celebrated Barr. And many are also eagerly waiting tog grill the former FBI chief on the origins of the Russia probe, and allegations of bias against the president among the top brass at the FBI and DOJ.
The kind of public spectacle I want to see involves scaffolds and rope.
The Rats are going to crash and burn
Don’t give those vampires a drop !! All they want to do is suck, suck, suck.
After the tar and feathers, of course.
Shut up Bill Barr, I want the SOB front and center.
Attorney General William Barr: the way to get Democrats to stop is to start issuing indictments to all those involved in criminal activities.
Until say a minimum of 20 or 30 such indictments are issued for Democrats who committed major felonies, their attitude will remain that they are above the law, and have liberty to corrupt the government to criminal ends at will.
It has cost the lives of Americans for them to run unchecked. Even the rank and file Republicans know who these criminals are and what they did.
Further delay is intolerable.
I don’t know about anyone else but i’m getting REALLY SICK of these ####s.
Lunatics often create “public spectacles”. LIBs/DIMs are lunatics. What’s new?
This sh.. is annoying but doesn’t concern me.
the MSM 24/7 from HERE ON IN tying to tie Trump to epstein gets me angry.
They will fail again but they will try to destroy his reputation once more.
I HATE them.
I can’t say here what I want to happen to them though I should be allowed to because they are traitors, each and every last one of them.
You’re attacking the wrong person. Barr is the good guy. Get it??
I really want to see Barr sitting next to Mueller in front of congress. Let’s find out what the truth really is. Not this “He said- He said B.S.”
And Barr sitting next to Mueller? That ain't gonna happen.
The Dems? Public spectacle? You mean like women screeching and scratching at the closed doors when the Kavanaugh hearings went on? Or mobs trying to destroy DC rather than allow the President to be sworn in? Or a “comedian” holding up a model of a severed bloody head of President Trump on television?
Oh, yeah, those Dems. They try to keep it classy.
I’ll be surprised if Mueller actually shows up to “testify.”
He may be, he may not be, the jury is still out. But on this I can say with confidence, shut up Bill Barr. 8>)
Mueller Repeatedly Contradicts Himself & Undermines Russiagate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52P7G7AHiDg
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