Posted on 07/09/2019 8:38:57 AM PDT by tcrlaf
U.S. Attorney General William Barr will not recuse himself from involvement in the new indictment unveiled this week by federal prosecutors in Manhattan charging financier Jeffrey Epstein with sex trafficking, a Justice Department official said Tuesday.
The official added, however, that Barr has been and will remain recused from overseeing the department's review into how federal prosecutors in Florida, including now-Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, previously reached a plea deal with Epstein that has since come under scrutiny as being too lenient.
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They’re scared sh!tless of Barr. He’ll take down names, and go after them, though the heavens tremble.
He has a book coming out in September. Ive preordered it and Ill post a review when I finish it. Im sure he will outline his judicial philosophy. Scalia did the same in his fantastic book A matter of interpretation.
I sense a joke here being pulled over the swamps head. Barr won’t recuse himself from what’s important but has recused himself from what largely unimportant and likely political in nature.
I hope some stuff is going down where Trump is showing he’s capable of destroying enough individual politicians that they capitulate and put pressure on Congress to lay-off of Trump.
My question exactly.
The comments here are amazingly unrelated to the post.
“What skeleton? Barr apparently worked for a law firm that once represented Epstein prior to Barr working there. That’s several degrees of separation, don’t you think?”
I think you must have misunderstood my comment. I understand that Barr has recused himself from the investigation into what went on in Florida with Epstein some years ago ( for legitimate reasons I might add), and that he has made it clear he’s NOT recusing himself from the new investigation being handled out of the Southern District of NY Federal Attorney’s Office.
“The question is what percentage of all his hires have turned out bad. 25 % is probably about as good as possible. IMHO.”
And just how do you come up with 25%? It seems to me that the Sessions, Tillerson, Wray and the FED Chairman positions, needed a whole lot more vetting. We are talking about KEY PEOPLE here. Collectively, these four people have cost Trump more that half of his first term. And replacing Prebus (who was a terrible choice in the first place) with McMaster ( who was a snake in the grass from the get go who thought he was better than the President), probably contributed to his making other poor choices because at no time, until he fired McMaster and gave his budget director, Mick Mulvaney the job, did he have someone who was loyal to him.
Trump has had a very steep learning curve, and he has NOT had the degree of loyalty he thought he would get, because he’s not a politician (Thank God). I stand amazed at what he has accomplished, and I only wonder just how much better it would have been had he picked loyal people who looked forward to carrying out his programs, instead of trying to f*ck him at every turn in the road!
You are such a big mouth know it all, I’m not even going to try and respond. The only thing that’s “pretty clear” here is that you must be a handful to live with ( that is if anyone has even dared to actually take on the job).
Great news!!!!!!
Remember Bush’s appointee “Brownie” and Katrina? I don’t remember any skeletons in closets, but zero experience and incompetence were certainly in evidence.
You are talking about department heads. They dont really do any actual work lol. That gets delegated.
Hey, you were the one who spouted off about Gorsuch and proclaimed the sky is falling, without ANY evidence to back it up.
To illustrate how wrong you are, I’ll show you what the Left thinks about Gorsuch. Not only do they not think he is another Roberts, they are terrified that he wants to dismantle the federal government at all levels:
https://thinkprogress.org/gorsuch-united-state-davis-supreme-court-agency-power-6beb6cb1e615/
Thank you for untangling this story of “recusal” by Barr.
Sometimes people don’t read the whole story and sometimes people want to...HAVE TO...see the negative side of issues.
“Hey, you were the one who spouted off about Gorsuch and proclaimed the sky is falling, without ANY evidence to back it up.”
I did no such thing! You are making it up as you go along. Gorsuch has been on the “wrong side” of a couple of decisions in my opinion. He bears watching, because he’s “new” and we can see what these people can do when they are free to follow whatever course pleases them. Prime examples are Earl Warren and now John Roberts. While I am glad he’s on the Court, I still think he bears watching. It’s way past time for the SCOTUS to continue to sit on their collective asses and pick at serious issues (Like say the Second Amendment). They have f*cked around on that issue for half a century. Seems to me a “Constitutionalist Court” would have no trouble fully addressing that crucial issue. Ditto for Roe v. Wade, Obamacare, and this latest travesty (where they really don’t have a say despite Roberts assertion that they do), putting the question of citizenship on the Census form.
Franco is still dead too.
“You are talking about department heads. They dont really do any actual work lol. That gets delegated.”
That’s the problem! (LOL!) The low-level RAT $hit that stays in their jobs no matter who is in the White House ARE THE PROBLEM! But they ACTUALLY DO REPORT UPWARD TO THE SECRETARIES & ADMINISTRATORS, who should be taking control and weeding out the miscreants who think that they are independent of their bosses. Just look at what the first EPA Administrator, Scott Pruett did RIFing 1500 of his people! The problem we have is that worthless dickheads get these appointments and they don’t do jack! And Trump has certainly appointed any number of dickheads (Sessions, Tillerson and Wray are prime examples), some of whom openly oppose his direction.
Bravo at post 18! You nailed it.
I am not an attorney, but I think he is a fantastic Judge who captures the full intent of our founding fathers with every opinion absent politics. He, like Scalia, is contemptuous of the very poorly written laws that we live under... the same laws that leave room for an activist judiciary to legislate from the bench. I wish more people understood this.
His rulings are always guided by the principle of a “free republic”. Where have I heard that before?
FRegards
Listen, this man was a billionaire and probably everyone and anyone with power or money crossed his path at one time, however not everyone was involved in his sex trafficking of children for sex.
Probably put out by Fake News
There’s a dozen OUT IN THE OPEN “massage” parlors on staten island surrounded by legitimate businesses.
Local paper runs with headlines once a year but nothing gets done.
I’m betting good money some of the girls are not 18.
Though I’ve heard some were close to 50.
Strange times.
WEIRD TIMES I TEL YA !!!!!
the leftists own us
between: MSM "news"
the GOOGLE "ministry of truth"
and Socialist Media "shadowbanning"
CIA/FBI/Federal Reserve "Deepstate"
the toilet pretty much only swirls left
Trump spygate pretty much swept under the rug completely and the ghouls hillary and obama are free to roam the planet as the heroic agents of fundamental change that google will make them
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