Posted on 02/14/2020 8:46:18 AM PST by a little elbow grease
WASHINGTON - There were two views Thursday night on Attorney General William Barr's complaints about President Donald Trump's tweets targeting the Justice Department and they couldn't have been more distinct: Supporters of the Trump administration took Barr at face value and praised him. Critics thought he was faking it.
"The attorney general says it's getting in the way of doing his job," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told Fox News anchor Bret Baier. "Maybe the president should listen to the attorney general."
"Barr doesn't care where it takes him," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said to Fox's Sean Hannity. "He just looks for justice."
Barr's detractors didn't think the attorney general was looking for justice. Rather, many thought he objected to Trump's tweets because they expose the administration's true motives.
"I have no doubt that when the president tweets, he is causing problems for the Attorney General," Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., who served as a manager in Trump's impeachment proceedings, said in a tweet late Thursday.
"But he's not making it harder for Barr to do the right thing, he's making it harder for him to get away with doing the wrong thing."
On CNN, Demings also speculated that Barr and Trump were "in cahoots."
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Trump has the final power - he can pardon the people who have been wronged.
The sooner this is wrapped up, the sooner Trump can pardon them. And yeah, liberal heads will explode, but isn’t that part of the fun?
So, Trump needs to allow his people to do their jobs... Barr’s a good man. He needs space? Sure, let’s give him that... We have other fish to fry. Lots of things for our President to do, look at, change, appoint, deregulate, protect and/or drain...
The article left out a third view held by many, including Lou Dobbs (and myself):
Barr is either deep state are is not capable (or unwilling) to fix the mess at DOJ.
A few facts (not in any particular order):
1)Barr started his career at the CIA,
2)was part of the Bush Administration,
3) close to Kelly,
4) has not begun to clean house at DOJ,
5) has not accomplished anything meaningful in prosecuting crimes committed by the left (all the way from Hillary, to sanctuary cities for illegal immigration, to out of control prosecutors, to voting irregularities, to antifa),
6) Epstein (yes, ultimately he was responsible for allowing his apparent assassination, either by design or incompetency),
7) organized attorneys to defend the FBI in the Ruby Ridge debacle,
8) has taken no action to stop the defacing of our national monuments,
9) Barr works for the President, and should be doing everything possible in his aid, not the other way around,
10) Bottom line, he is either incapable or unwilling to manage DOJ, and prosecute crimes committed by the left.
Some of us have lost patience, just like we did with Sessions.
add one more:
11) Federal prosecutors have declined to charge former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, closing an investigation into whether he lied to federal officials about his involvement in a news media disclosure, McCabe’s legal team said Friday.
The decision resolves a criminal investigation that spanned more than a year and began with a referral from the Justice Department’s inspector general, which said McCabe repeatedly lied about having authorized a subordinate to share information with a newspaper reporter for a 2016 article about an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
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I'll offer a different perspective.
Instead of saying that Trump is making it impossible to do his job, Barr could have said, "Since the Constitution states that he [the President] shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States,, I shall leave it to the President to decide how to exercise that awesome authority."
What has he done? He needs a swift kick on his backside.
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Your whole summation is telling, but that one really sucks.
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Oh yes. I completely forgot that angle.
(Lucky I'm out here in a greenhouse with only plants and soil.)
;-)
Wut? DC works?
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The consensus here is with your sentiment. I'm beginning to agree.
i support PDJT not tweeting about criminal cases in trial ...
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A lawyerly thing to say, but it plays into the hands of those who are trying to stir-up up a fight between Trump and Barr. Anyway, Trump can tweet all he wants by pardoning Stone.
In Roger Stone's case, the trial is over. This is the sentencing phase and the suggested sentence by the lawfare prosecutors was extremely disproportionate.
The President can comment on the case without influencing the outcome. It is the enemedia that blows everything out of proportion and takes everything out of context.
Thanks for correcting the turd polishers, older and wiser Freepers have said he would do nothing from the start well unless you count prosecuting Stone.
Trump is going to be Trump. If he never tweeted during the election, he would have lost. Barr has to just deal with it. It is part of Trump for better or worse, usually better and sometimes much worse. It is a big net positive. Barr and everyone else is stuck with it. Tough.
They all talk too effing much
People talk too much don’t really want to fight
Why comment ever supporting media narrative ..
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