This is the second phase of the - Run out the Clock - strategy, no one wants to hear about it anymore.
This is why they sit on cases and do nothing.
Posted on 02/19/2020 10:38:00 AM PST by Red Badger
Key Points
President Donald Trump retweeted a claim that he was “the victim of a seditious conspiracy out of the” Justice Department and the FBI.
Attorney General William Barr has warned people close to Trump that he might resign if the president continues commenting on criminal cases.
Trump has publicly complained about the case against his friend, political operative Roger Stone, who lied to Congress about his contacts with WikLeaks.
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Your move, Mr. Attorney General.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday retweeted claims that he is “the victim” of a Justice Department conspiracy, hours after reports that the department’s chief official has threatened to quit if the president continues such criticism.
A tweet Trump promoted to his nearly 73 million followers also said that Attorney General William “Barr should clean house” at the Justice Department — and argued that Trump “can also appoint a special counsel directly” to investigate the purported conspiracy against him.
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Barr should clean house at DOJ...@realDonalldTrump,was the victim of a seditious conspiracy out of DOJ/FBI, etc. President Trump can also appoint a special counsel directly. Embedded video 15.6K 9:18 PM - Feb 18, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy
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That tweet was first posted by Tom Fitton, president of the right-wing advocacy group Judicial Watch, and included a link to a more than eight-minute-long appearance by Fitton on Fox News.
Trump soon afterward retweeted another post by Fitton, who said Judicial Watch is “doing the heavy lifting exposing the worst corruption scandal in American history.”
That post referenced so-called astonishing emails that show former Justice Department official Rod Rosenstein “had many Obama/Clinton and media friends” supporting him when he “infamously appointed” former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel.
Trump’s retweets Wednesday morning came after reports on Tuesday night that Barr — who is the head of the Justice Department — has told people close to the president that he might resign if Trump does not stop making public comments about cases lodged by federal prosecutors who report to the attorney general.
A Justice Department spokeswoman said later Tuesday that Barr has no plans to resign.
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said Wednesday that Trump “has a right to make his opinion known.”
Trump has raged since early in his presidency about the investigation by the Justice Department and FBI into Russian interference in the 2016 election, which Trump won, and contacts by Trump campaign officials and others affiliated with the president with Russians during and before the campaign. Mueller took over that probe as special counsel in 2017.
Trump is said to be furious that the Justice Department last week decided not to pursue criminal charges against Andrew McCabe, a former FBI deputy director, who had been under investigation for allegedly misleading investigators about leaks to journalists related to a probe of 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Trump has repeatedly blamed McCabe, along with former FBI Director James Comey, for what the president has called a baseless investigation into Russian election meddling.
On Tuesday, Trump told reporters that “I’m actually, I guess, the chief law enforcement officer of the country.”
“But I’ve chosen not to be involved,” the president added.
Barr last week, in an ABC News interview, said that Trump’s tweets about federal criminal cases, including ones targeting people connected to the president, are making it “impossible for me to do my job.”
The attorney general has faced withering criticism from former Justice Department officials, congressional Democrats and others in the past week after reversing a recommendation by trial prosecutors that Trump’s longtime friend, Republican operative Roger Stone, receive a prison term of between seven and nine years when he is sentenced Thursday for crimes related to lying to Congress and witness tampering.
Nearly 2,500 former Justice officials have signed a petition calling on Barr to resign because of the attorney general’s “actions in doing the President’s personal bidding.”
Barr has claimed that he decided to recommend a far less severe prison term after being blindsided by the first suggestion by prosecutors, but before Trump blasted that initial recommendation on Twitter hours after it was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
Barr’s critics have been highly skeptical of his claim that he did not respond to Trump’s pressure.
On Tuesday, Trump joined calls for Stone to be granted a new trial, retweeting comments by a Fox News legal analyst who said that “almost any judge in the Country would order a new trial,” but “I’m not so sure about” Stone’s trial judge, Amy Berman Jackson.
Stone’s lawyers last week filed a motion seeking a new trial on the heels of disclosures that the jury forewoman had posted articles and comments critical of Trump on social media. A court filing Tuesday indicates that Stone’s lawyers in that sealed motion are “alleging juror misconduct.”
The Federal Judges Association on Wednesday is set to hold an emergency meeting to discuss concerns about political pressures placed on the judiciary.
FAKE NEWS
Perhaps he’s ramping-up the tweets because he WANTS Barr to resign.
Now you are over the target. And it is now just one tweet. He dropped the kitchen sink on Deep State Bill.
There are no sharps or flats on a bagpipe.
All music is played in the key of C.
Hence it’s impossible to play jazz on one.
… despite Attorney General Barr’s threat to quit …No such threat was issued; only rumors spread by the Washington Compost; yet NBC publishes this headline as if it were true.
Exactly. That’s what I was trying to say yesterday but was getting beat up by people saying oh that’s just fake news because it was linked on Drudge.
He didn’t. That’s the ‘NBC’ part of CNBC................
FAKE NEWS
Who is faking President Trump’s tweets?
Donald J. Trump Retweeted
Tom Fitton
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FISA Fraud of Historic Proportions And DOJ is Complaining About Tweets? Remarkable.
Or start doing his job or start hitting some homeruns. Quite frankly, Barr has not done much other than talk about Trump’s tweeting.
trump should have hired an ag in Jan 2017 that would put the criminal hillary in jail along with the seditionist OBAMA. Now after 3 years and a month he complains about the DOJ and the FBI.
Biden confessed on video 2 years and a month ago. Where’s that indictment?
A jazz bagpipist?
BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP TO RESIGN
By Kimberly Morin
Published April 1, 2017 at 7:11am
There is breaking news coming out of the White House this morning. President Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States of America, is RESIGNING.
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Trump gave a presser this morning in which he cites several reasons for this decision:
He’s had it with the feral whining and shrill screeches of loser Democrats. Trump said he could not take the shrill, granny Indian-wannabe voice of Lizzie Warren anymore. He also cited the failure of Nancy Pelosi’s face to actually move with expression due to her massive Botox injections. He claimed they were causing nightmares.
Trump also cited the inability of Republicans to just get along and agree on anything, not even the time of day. He also noted their constant determination to form circular firing squads.
Another reason for resigning is RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA! Trump complained he can’t even get good Russian caviar anymore, or Russian dressing on his salads, because of idiot Democrats who keep claiming he was somehow colluding with them.
Trump said it is SAD that he had to come to this decision, as all he wanted was to make America great again, but he had no alternative, and wished President to-be Pence and the country well.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/breaking-news-trump-to-resign
Getting sick of Barr dragging his derriere.
Get to work! Stop complaining.. Don’t threaten to quit... Just quit!!
Getting so sick of this CRAP!! Screw all these Cowards. They are obviously afraid of the Deep State Demons!!!
Keep speaking out President Trump! You are the only True Hero we have.
I would much rather have my President communicating with me freely than William Barr declining to prosecute obvious criminals with incontrovertible evidence of their crimes.
What is Mr. Barr’s job? What is his purpose? Because his entire department is an outrageous disgrace.
Laura IngraHAM is obnoxious.
Campaign Donations Show Letter Demanding AG Barr’s Resignation Comes From Leftist Hacks Pretending To Be ‘Bipartisan’
The Federalist ^ | 02/19/2020 | Margot Cleveland
Posted on 2/19/2020, 9:29:25 AM by SeekAndFind
“More than 1,100 former federal prosecutors and Justice Department officials called on Attorney General William P. Barr on Sunday to step down after he intervened last week to lower the Justice Department’s sentencing recommendation for President Trump’s longtime friend Roger J. Stone, Jr.,” The New York Times reported on Sunday—if you can call it reporting.
Not once in the 800-word article did the Times address the overwhelming evidence that the thousand-plus signatories were politically motivated critics of President Donald Trump. In fact, to the contrary, the Times claimed “the former Justice Department lawyers” “came from across the political spectrum” to sign the open letter that condemned “President Trump’s and Attorney General Barr’s interference in the fair administration of justice.” Those actions, the much-touted letter claimed, “require Mr. Barr to resign.”
The letter and the charge that Barr interfered “in the fair administration of justice” focused on the decision last week by senior Department of Justice officials to override the recommendation lower-level prosecutors had made for a nine-year prison sentence for Roger Stone. The AG’s office viewed a nine-year sentence recommendation as too severe for Stone’s non-violent offenses but did not make a specific recommendation for an appropriate prison sentence.
Barr denied politics played any role in the DOJ’s decision and the Justice Department stressed that no one had discussed the Stone case with anyone at the White House. And there is no evidence to the contrary. Nonetheless, several Democrats pounced, pushing for Barr to resign, or, as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren threatened, be impeached.
Over the weekend and earlier this week, left-leaning media outlets coalesced on the latest anti-Trump conspiracy theory, using the letter of the former DOJ employees to bolster the appearance of impropriety. In addition to the Times, Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post pointed to the 1,100 signatories as evidence of Trump’s misconduct and Barr’s supposed acquiescence. (At least Rubin wrote under the opinion category, unlike the Times article.)
NPR likewise parroted the misleading claim that “the signatories on a letter have worked under both Republican and Democratic administrations,” when interviewing Julie Zebrak, one of the signatories and a former DOJ attorney of nearly 20 years. NPR did provide a tad of pushback, though, asking Zebrak what she would say to listeners who dismiss what she says as “partisanship.” Zebrak’s reply followed the same misdirection, noting that “if you look at the list, you’ll see that almost everyone on that list has served through multiple administrations, including Republican and Democrat.”
That may well be true, but as Peter Strzok and Lisa Page proved beyond doubt, you can be an extreme, left-leaning, hate-filled partisan and work in (and against) Republican administrations. Had the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, or any of the other liberal outlets bothered to act like journalists instead of the PR arms of Democratic and anti-Trump outfits, they would have quickly discovered evidence of a partisan bias underlying the letter calling for Barr’s resignation.
First, as The New York Times noted, “Protect Democracy, a nonprofit legal group, gathered the signatures from Justice Department alumni and said it would collect more.” Here’s what the Times and other outlets failed to report: Protect Democracy was founded in 2017 by Ian Bassin, who was the associate White House counsel for President Barack Obama from 2009-2011, and Justin Florence, who also served in the Office of the White House Counsel as a special assistant to the president and associate counsel of the president.
Bassin is also the president of the liberal American Constitution Society and Florence had also served as a senior counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee for Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). Protect Democracy also boasts a Who’s Who of the Never Trump resistance as advisors, such as failed presidential candidate Evan McMullin and running mate Mindy Finn.
The media also missed the reality that this latest attack on Barr (and in turn Trump) is nothing but a recycling of Protect Democracy’s earlier outrage over the Robert Mueller report. Shortly after the special counsel’s report issued, the same outfit ran the same “we are former federal prosecutors” who “served under both Republican and Democratic administrations” schtick to argue that Trump should have been charged with multiple felonies for obstruction of justice. As the following snippet shows, the signatories, for the most part, overlapped as well.
Excerpted:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3817758/posts
Lol
Ignore the Barr resigning crap. It’s a planted story................
Meanwhile, for those still bizarrely believing in Barr:
“Paul Sperry @paulsperry_ 56m
Yet another sign AG Barr lacks control over his own department:
3 months after the IG report hit DOJ official Bruce Ohr for hiding his backchannel ops w dossier hack Steele & referred him to OPR for “appropriate action,” Ohr’s STILL employed by Barr in his criminal division.Why?”
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1230194591250472963
We need Tom Fitton. He would kick ass as an interim AG!
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