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Trump tweets Justice Department criticism despite Attorney General Barr’s threat to quit
CNBC ^ | Wed, Feb 19 202011:08 AM ESTUpdated 12 min ago | Dan Mangan

Posted on 02/19/2020 10:38:00 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

FAKE NEWS


21 posted on 02/19/2020 10:51:34 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Buckeye McFrog

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.


22 posted on 02/19/2020 10:52:07 AM PST by lodi90
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To: odawg

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.


23 posted on 02/19/2020 10:52:12 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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… 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.
24 posted on 02/19/2020 10:52:56 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: lodi90

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.


25 posted on 02/19/2020 10:53:17 AM PST by conservative98
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To: billyboy15

He didn’t. That’s the ‘NBC’ part of CNBC................


26 posted on 02/19/2020 10:53:52 AM PST by Red Badger (CWII is coming. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: KeyLargo

FAKE NEWS


Who is faking President Trump’s tweets?

Donald J. Trump Retweeted
Tom Fitton
@TomFitton
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6h
FISA Fraud of Historic Proportions And DOJ is Complaining About Tweets? Remarkable.


27 posted on 02/19/2020 10:54:19 AM PST by lodi90
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Or start doing his job or start hitting some homeruns. Quite frankly, Barr has not done much other than talk about Trump’s tweeting.


28 posted on 02/19/2020 10:55:12 AM PST by conservative98
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To: Buckeye McFrog

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?


29 posted on 02/19/2020 10:56:19 AM PST by olesigh
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To: All
DAE5-EF2-A-625-E-43-B4-A811-77322806-FCD7


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.


30 posted on 02/19/2020 10:56:47 AM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: odawg

A jazz bagpipist?


31 posted on 02/19/2020 10:57:14 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Red Badger

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.

trump

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


32 posted on 02/19/2020 10:57:56 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Red Badger

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.


33 posted on 02/19/2020 11:05:14 AM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Red Badger

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.


34 posted on 02/19/2020 11:06:40 AM PST by chris37 (Impeach Chief Obama Injustice Roberts, a fraud, a clown and a tyrant!)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Laura IngraHAM is obnoxious.


35 posted on 02/19/2020 11:08:49 AM PST by chris37 (Impeach Chief Obama Injustice Roberts, a fraud, a clown and a tyrant!)
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To: Red Badger

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


36 posted on 02/19/2020 11:10:38 AM PST by Grampa Dave ( The DNC should just sell their top rat candidate via bidding on EBAY!)
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To: Texas Eagle

Lol


37 posted on 02/19/2020 11:11:14 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

Ignore the Barr resigning crap. It’s a planted story................


38 posted on 02/19/2020 11:13:03 AM PST by Red Badger (CWII is coming. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

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


39 posted on 02/19/2020 11:15:08 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: lodi90

We need Tom Fitton. He would kick ass as an interim AG!


40 posted on 02/19/2020 11:19:55 AM PST by hsmomx3
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