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Barr Makes It Official—He’s Trump’s New “Fixer”
Politico ^ | Aug 1, 2020 | Victoria Bassetti and Norman Eisen

Posted on 08/01/2020 8:23:28 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

Of President Donald Trump’s many career skills, perhaps the least appreciated is his lifelong and uncanny ability to sniff out lawyers who will serve his will.

In slightly more than 500 days in office, Barr has pivoted from establishment D.C. attorney—sworn to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States—into Trump’s family lawyer. The office of the attorney general is one of the oldest in our constitutional system, and the department is pledged “to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.” But Barr, instead, displays a tendency to use all the department’s levers—and with a $32 billion budget there are a lot of them—not to protect “all Americans” but to protect the president, personally and politically.

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The DOJ Head was quoted by Politico saying: "I’m still the President’s wing-man, so I’m there with my boy." https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2013/04/eric-holder-im-still-the-presidents-wingman-160861
1 posted on 08/01/2020 8:23:28 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

What did they think Bobbie Kennedy was in relation to his brother?


2 posted on 08/01/2020 8:25:30 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“...ability to sniff out lawyers who will serve his will.”

Isn’t that the exact reason ANYONE hires a lawyer?


3 posted on 08/01/2020 8:26:29 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

They sure sound Scared?


4 posted on 08/01/2020 8:27:20 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Better than Obama’s ‘wingman,’ huh BassettiIdiot and EisenIdiot?! Political hacks from a Leftist propaganda kowtowing outfit. Color me stupid. Not.


5 posted on 08/01/2020 8:29:17 AM PDT by cranked
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Dumb article. Trump didn’t “sniff out” Sessions. And Trump’s family lawyer is just following the Constitution. Unlike Holder who self proclaimed himself as”Obama’s wingman” Where is that article? Typical liberal shills.


6 posted on 08/01/2020 8:29:55 AM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Partisan Media Shills update.


7 posted on 08/01/2020 8:30:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: eyeamok

“...They sure sound Scared?...”
That’s what it sonds like....scared spitless.


8 posted on 08/01/2020 8:30:58 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

What do you expect from Propagandico?


9 posted on 08/01/2020 8:31:39 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (China kills over 650,000 and the sheeple sleep. Cops kill one person, and cities burn.)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Of course it’s just fine when on their side, BROTHER AG, WINGMAN AG, all just peachy!! These idiots are beyond hypocrites BLATANT HYPOCRISY they don’t even care anymore !!! They have numbed down the masses so much they have not a lick of common sense!! MANY are waking up though just not fast enough!!


10 posted on 08/01/2020 8:32:19 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: jughandle

Everybody hates Lawyers until the is a time you need one.


11 posted on 08/01/2020 8:33:20 AM PDT by MAKOTHEDOG
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

TWO authors. Leftist media incapable of writing their own stories.


12 posted on 08/01/2020 8:34:03 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sent COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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INDICT COMEY to start, prove you are a fixer
13 posted on 08/01/2020 8:34:56 AM PDT by BigEdLB (BigedLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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They are setting the stage for the Durham release. Make it sound like DOJ (Barr/Durham) are merely Trump lackeys.


14 posted on 08/01/2020 8:37:08 AM PDT by elpadre
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“uncanny ability to sniff out lawyers who will serve his will.”

That called paying them, and it’s not at all uncanny.


15 posted on 08/01/2020 8:39:34 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Don't care. Still voting for Trump.)
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To: BigEdLB

Remember that any jury will consist almost entirely if not wholly of Democrats. Hillary won 96% of the vote in the District of Columbia, the only jurisdiction where most political trials can occur. This extreme political bias applies not only to the jury pool but also to the bureaucrats and lawyers, who staff the investigating agencies and prepare the cases. It works invariably in favor of Democrats and with indiscriminate vindictiveness against Republicans.


16 posted on 08/01/2020 8:40:28 AM PDT by dufekin (Vote Trump; save lives)
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The office of the attorney general is one of the oldest in our constitutional system …
Actually, the office of Attorney General is not in the Constitution any more than the DOJ is. The position of AG was created by the 1789 Judiciary Act, and the DOJ by the Act to Establish the Department of Justice in 1870.
17 posted on 08/01/2020 8:44:07 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress
What did they think Bobbie Kennedy was in relation to his brother?

Since WWII, the rise of the centralized nanny-state, but especially after Watergate - the Attorney General is the most important office in Federal Government. The DOJ is the brain and political nerve center of Fed.gov. On a lower level, why has George Soros so aggressively targetted putting progressives/leftists in DA and AG positions? Because they control the law, police, who gets investigated and charged by the State, at all levels.

Every President had to have a completely loyal AG, or they were done. Joe Sr. made sure JFK appointed his own brother. Reagan had long-term pal Ed Meese. Obama had two fellow travelers as AG to push his social-engineering agenda. He even made sure both were black.

Trump’s first AG pick nearly destroyed his Presidency from the start.

18 posted on 08/01/2020 8:53:32 AM PDT by PGR88
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They are so envious of our President. Envy conjures up the demons.


19 posted on 08/01/2020 8:57:41 AM PDT by Maudeen (Too many wait until the 11th hour to come to Jesus. The major problem . . .many die at 10:30.)
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Screw you Politico, you liberal rag of pseudo-journalism. The facts are that Janet Reno, Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder were three of the most partisan hack Attorney Generals who ever held that position; and, that the amount of corruption and lack of ethics among leftist politicians, Democrats in general, and the liberal media eclipses anything the Republicans have ever done. How deluded you are.


20 posted on 08/01/2020 8:58:45 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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