Posted on 02/13/2020 1:25:44 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Attorney General William Barr told ABC News in an interview aired Thursday that President Trump had never asked him to do anything in a criminal case but advised the president to stop tweeting about the Justice Department, saying it makes it impossible for me to do my job.
The remarks are a significant and rare public break by the attorney general from the president, following days of controversy surrounding the Justice Departments decision to lessen a sentence for Trump ally Roger Stone after the president tweeted about his displeasure with the gravity of the original sentence recommendation.
I think its time to stop the tweeting about Department of Justice criminal cases, Barr told ABC in the interview.
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(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
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Damn, is that true.
I agree; this smells, looks and feels like some kind of 3D-chess head fake. As some have noted, Barr doesn’t need to go to the fake news world to try to get his point across to the president; he can talk directly to the president. So, why go? I’m not going to dump on Barr, yet ...
Barr is right about those particular tweets and...Barr doesn’t seem to be doing his job.
It’s a two-fer.
When did Trump give Barr permission to declassify information related to the coup? Last May was it?
Has Barr declassified as much as a comma since then? Why give permission and make a big deal of it in public if nothing was supposed to be declassified for months?
Even Dan Bongino has become a bore (he’s out of excuses and down to bargaining with his listeners now) trying to defend the fact that nothing has been done about the coup in which Trump has gone through about 3 years of hell and innocent people have been unjustly persecuted.
Either the judges politics will come to light and/or real, unbiased justice will come to light.
Theater. Again.
Trump sometimes needs to just talk in private .......
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agreed
Wrong, and I won't accuse you of pearl-clutching, but it's not a correct appraisal.
Barr is doing a Friday news dump, to establish a space between himself and Trump. It's a very good play, use the #MSM to assure Joe Sixpack -- otherwise the #MSM will use the exact same #Narrative space to scare Joe Sixpack.
President Trump could/should be aware -- and hopefully people like Stephen Miller will remind him of this -- that any talk surrounding sentencings or pardons is always 3rd rail electrified shit, don't grab it, don't touch it until it's settled.
90% of sentencing/pardon news is always a negative proposition; and the other 10% is when someone gets off scot-free and that's not always good news either (hello OJ).
You can't take transactionalism and force it into everything. And the corollary is, "Let Barr do his damn job, please. Because he's doing ok so far."
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....... agreed
Hes absolutely correct. Trump is his own worst enemy here. Because of the tweet Barr has to go before Congress over the roger Stone matter. Its not a helpful distraction from doing his job. If Trump pushes Barr out he should not be reelected.
Stone was guilty.
But he will get good reviews here, unless he makes one bad statement against Trump, then everybody here will be ready to throw him under the bus.
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I tend to agree with you.
Barr is someone who won’t take the masks off Antifa, never mind release the declassified material DJT put in his charge and we’re suppose to believe this fat turd can’t do his job? What job, you useless bureaucratic POS? Without DJTs Tweets most wouldn’t have a clue as to the degree of corruption that exists in DeeCee. The whole damn town needs to burn to the ground. On the bright side it’s apparent DJT has blown up both the Rs and the Ds and this is good, real good.
You're right. So far, in all his time in this office, Barr has accomplished a big, fat zero. All the evil perps like Brennan, Clapper, Comey, etc., continue to smirk, and walk around free, snidely mocking all those who seek true justice. And Barr pulls a Deep Mitt-er, and goes into the camp of the enemy (ABC), and takes shots at his boss, Trump, and apparently wants to "rip up" Trump's tweets, like Nancy Peloony ripped up Trump's SOTU speech. (Did you hear Mark Steyn talking angrily about the disgusting, disgraceful stink currently existing in the DOJ, and the great big "nothing" being done about it, on the Rush Limbaugh show today?)
If Barr continues to accomplish nothing, the rotund bagpiper should play "Going Home" on his pipes, and the office of the Attorney General should be dis-Barred. As someone else here already said, he should be replaced by someone like Jay Sekulow.
And, Mr. President, here's my message for you:
(And I can't wait to see you give a copy of your SOTU speech to the Republican Speaker of the House in 2021!)
Trump Cultists??? Literally no genuine supporter of POTUS would ever smear another FR supporter of POTUS as a “cultist”. You are outed as a trolling Never Trumper and/or sunshine supporter of POTUS. Period. Adios, amigo.
Why doesnt he just pick up the phone and communicate with his boss? Theres something else going on here. I dont know what, but he certainly doesnt need to send smoke signals to Trump through ABC News, if thats all it was about.
Of course you're correct. I'm surprised so many here are out of their minds.
Oh sure. It's 3-D chess. Just like when Trump used to criticize Sessions.
Oh wait..
I thought Matthew Whitaker did an outstanding job as acting A/G between Sessions and Barr.
So much so, that HE should have been selected.
I didn’t. He was recently defending the Flynn prosecution of Fox News. He’s as swampy as the rest of them. Good riddence.
+1000
D’oh! That was going to be my exact comment. (Hours late)
So if Barr (Deep Stater) continues to punish Trump allies all the while not even bringng one single charge or indictment against democrat criminals and Trump fires him as he did Sessions, he should “not be reelected”?
I don’t care if you are from the class of ‘99.
IBTZ. Never Trumper.
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