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LEGAL EXPERTS SLAM ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR OVER IMPEACHMENT: HE'S 'UP TO HIS EYEBALLS' IN CORRUPTION
Newsweak ^ | 12/23/19 | ALEXANDRA HUTZLER

Posted on 12/24/2019 8:07:45 AM PST by Maceman

Attorney General William Barr's defense of President Donald Trump amid impeachment is raising questions about potential conflicts of interest as legal experts accuse the Justice Department chief of ignoring his responsibility as the nation's top prosecutor.

"This is a really strange situation with Barr, who has so many conflicts and is up to his eyeballs in all of the corruption surrounding Trump," attorney Nick Akerman told Newsweek. Akerman served an assistant special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon.

The attorney general plays no official role in impeachment, but that hasn't stopped Barr from coming to Trump's defense on multiple occasions. The Justice Department's top official often protected the Trump administration throughout the inquiry and went so far as to suggest that Democrats are "trivializing" impeachment by using it as a "political tool."

Michael J. Stern, a former federal prosecutor, asserted that Barr's loyalty to the White House is a "perversion" of his job as attorney general. "There is an inherent conflict in Barr's designated role as the chief law enforcement officer of this country and his efforts to protect the man who gave him his job. It is unfortunate that Bill Barr never misses an opportunity to place his thumb on the scales of justice in favor of Donald Trump. That's not how it is supposed to be," Stern told Newsweek.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; akerman; alexandrahutzler; barr; clintonnonnews; cnn; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; mediawingofthednc; michaeljstern; michaelstern; newsweak; nickakerman; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; stern; waronbarr; watergatenostalgia
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To: tet68

Their foot on the scales, along with their stinking party’s symbol!!


41 posted on 12/24/2019 8:59:36 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: Maceman

What did he come close to uncovering that has them so freaked out?


42 posted on 12/24/2019 9:01:06 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Maceman

The so-called lawyers are legal idiots.

While trying to suggest Barr is acting only on a personal basis for his president (with no foundation to insinuate that), they make believe that Barr cannot have a legal opinion on the matter that differs from either Nancy Pelosi’s or theirs. Or that on the basis of a sound legal opinion Barr is acting as he legally should.

It is politics and political views not the law that form the why and the basis for the so-called lawyers legal opinions.

And does Watergate experience make them experts? No, unless that is you favor the myth that there were no legal errors made by the Watergate “prosecutors”.


43 posted on 12/24/2019 9:05:45 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Maceman

So according to the Dems everybody except them has to recuse themselves.


44 posted on 12/24/2019 9:06:36 AM PST by dgbrown
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To: dgbrown

When the Press has your back, you can do anything you want.


45 posted on 12/24/2019 9:07:13 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Maceman

If these are impartial legal experts I’m dining on saute of fedora for Christmas. The AG is doing his job and he certainly has a role in protecting the President (re:the Executive branch)in any legal proceedings against the administration.


46 posted on 12/24/2019 9:07:46 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Maceman

I see that you posted this but provided no insight as to where you stand on the issue...

Interesting

Very interesting


47 posted on 12/24/2019 9:11:57 AM PST by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: Maceman

To Alexandra Hustler: thirty Helens agree: no one gives a ... about legal experts opinion


48 posted on 12/24/2019 9:17:54 AM PST by exinnj
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To: Maceman

They speak of Trump’s corruption as though it is universally accepted fact.


49 posted on 12/24/2019 9:21:40 AM PST by lurk
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To: Maceman

Where’s the Goebbels photo on this one? LOL


50 posted on 12/24/2019 10:01:22 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Pledge: "...and to the Democracy for which it stands..." I give up. Use the democRat meme...)
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To: Maceman

Its getting hot in the kitchen and the rats have no where to go


51 posted on 12/24/2019 10:12:08 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Partisan Media Shills update.


52 posted on 12/24/2019 10:21:28 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: 100American
I see that you posted this but provided no insight as to where you stand on the issue... Interesting Very interesting

Are you serious? I've been on this site for 20 years during which I have posted 887 threads and 24,812 replies which you are free to peruse at your leisure.

So where do you think I stand? Take a guess.


53 posted on 12/24/2019 10:21:37 AM PST by Maceman (Trump Trumps Hate!!!)
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To: Maceman
Who will be the first to call Barr & Durham racist?

When?

54 posted on 12/24/2019 10:24:12 AM PST by blam
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To: Travis McGee
The Rats and their media whores are trying to preemptively discredit the coming Durham indictments.

That's exactly what they're doing. This whole farce is 2020 election interference.

55 posted on 12/24/2019 10:31:45 AM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Maceman

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.............


56 posted on 12/24/2019 10:39:30 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Travis McGee

Dems have been showering Pubbies with buckets of $hit since B4 DJT was elected.....


57 posted on 12/24/2019 10:42:19 AM PST by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: Maceman

Since when did the Dems become concerned about conflicts of interest?


58 posted on 12/24/2019 11:08:02 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Maceman

Barr is a straight-shooter and it has driven the Demoncrats into a frenzy.


59 posted on 12/24/2019 11:08:57 AM PST by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel))
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To: abbastanza

I was amazed to see that Newsweek is still in biddness.


60 posted on 12/24/2019 11:17:20 AM PST by Cuttnhorse (Never fear the cow)
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