Posted on 09/26/2019 7:41:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Veteran investigative journalist Carl Bernstein said his sources are telling him that Attorney General William Barr is preparing to push a "deep state" conspiracy to protect President Trump.
During an appearance Thursday on CNN, the famed Watergate sleuth reacted to controversy about an intelligence community whistleblower who filed a complaint alleging Trump improperly leveraged military aid to encourage Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
Trump attacking the whistleblower's sources as being "close to a spy" and alluding to capital punishment, Bernstein said, provided "real time" evidence of the president's corruption. Additionally, Bernstein said the release of the Trump-Zelensky call transcript and the whistleblower's complaint provided more "terrible evidence of the president’s corruption, of his willingness to undermine the free electoral system in this country, to involve foreign powers in our election, and also to try and get involved at the president’s behest there."
The complaint and the notes of the July 25 call, both released to the public this week, show Trump urged Zelensky to speak with his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and Barr about investigating the matter related to Joe Biden, who is now a leading Democratic candidate for president.
The Justice Department denies Barr ever spoke to Trump about it, and the attorney general has resisted Democratic calls for him to recuse himself from Ukraine-related investigations, but Bernstein insisted that Trump's comments are proof of the attorney general's "conniving" to put out a narrative about sinister forces within the federal government bureaucracy taking aim at Trump.
The Justice Department also received a criminal referral about a potential campaign finance violation in relation to Trump's phone conversation with Zelensky, but declined to take action after a review.
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Carl, hope your involvement is mentioned.
Huh?
“””””Attorney General William Barr is preparing to push a “deep state” conspiracy to protect President Trump. “”””””
Sure, whatever you say.
Orange women, grey man...bad!!!!
carl’s 15 minutes of fame expired ages ago..
Washington Examiner seems to report a lot of garbage. All I know of them are excerpts of articles I read here, but my sense is they’re part of the liberal propaganda complex.
Tell us how this is worse than Watergate Carl. I love that one.
Ugh. Unfortunately Bernstien has been wrong about everything the last 3 years.
A real journalist would be doing his best to reveal the persons tesponsible dor the sof coup.
Not protecting them.
“Sources Say”.........
Didn’t Carl get the memo? That meme is out of style.
Conspiracy theories with evidence become conspiracy fact.
They’re going to try to poo poo this as a conspiracy theory, but only the farthest left radicals will believe it. Just like the Biden video, the evidence is all there, and it’s going to come out.
As opposed to a "deep state" conspiracy to remove President Trump?
I thought protecting the President was always the mission?
-PJ
Doesn’t Carl know that will make hair grow on the palm of his hand?
What a putz!
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