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Barr pushes back on Trump: This is not a ‘witch hunt’
The Hill ^ | 06/06/2023 | SARAH FORTINSKY

Posted on 06/06/2023 12:02:47 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Former Attorney General Bill Barr pushed back on former President Trump’s characterization of the special counsel’s documents probe as politically motivated and said he thinks the public eventually will come to realize the former president’s culpability.

“Over time, people will see that this is not a case of the Department of Justice conducting a witch hunt,” Barr said in an interview on CBS Tuesday. “In fact, they approached this very delicately and with deference to the president, and this would have gone nowhere had the president just returned the documents. But he jerked them around for a year and a half.”

Special counsel Jack Smith is leading an investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents, some of which were discovered in an FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home after Trump repeatedly refused to turn the documents over to federal officials once he left the White House.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: barr; barrf; hunt; jacksmith; maralago; sarahfortinsky; trump; witch
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To: ChicagoConservative27

All these retreads are so vocal. It’s as if they had something to protect, like their freedom.


41 posted on 06/06/2023 1:44:44 PM PDT by TheElectionWasStolen
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To: newzjunkey

Obviously things you know nothing about. Stop watching CNN.


42 posted on 06/06/2023 1:44:59 PM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: All

Not a witch hunt?

Well, maybe it is more like a snipe hunt.


43 posted on 06/06/2023 1:56:41 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: eyeamok

Barr is so far he’d break the rope; except it might happen (depending on the tensile strength of the rope and the height of the drop) that he’d accidentally be decapitated.

Much better to put him in a locked room with Gov. Krispy Kreme and let them compete over the last doughnut in a box...


44 posted on 06/06/2023 2:07:06 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: McGruff

Barr is covering for Smith, who is a vicious dirtbag. Question: Of the 1.3 million lawyers in the USA, is there such a thing as an honorable Republican lawyer?


45 posted on 06/06/2023 2:09:49 PM PDT by Bookshelf (arr )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Bill Barr is a bag of RINO gas.


46 posted on 06/06/2023 3:24:49 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Barr sucking up big time to land a job with the democrats.

He can’t make it to CNN


47 posted on 06/06/2023 3:24:59 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is this the same Barr that condemned the Manhattan DA’s indictment of Trump?

But there’s no witchhunt...

What a two-faced hack.


48 posted on 06/06/2023 3:29:18 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think Barr will be getting his just rewards soon.


49 posted on 06/06/2023 3:30:15 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: CodeToad

“Barr conspired with Hillary and the FBI to overthrow the United States government by claiming Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election.”

Barr not only turned a blind eye to massive election fraud, but actively blocked legitimate investigations into that fraud while lying and telling the American people it never happened.

He fears a Trump reelection.


50 posted on 06/06/2023 3:33:52 PM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: Bshaw

The “Russian Collusion” FISA warrants were executed under his authority. He knew. He had to have known. he actively blocked all attempts to tell that truth.


51 posted on 06/06/2023 3:35:56 PM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

52 posted on 06/06/2023 3:42:21 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (CONS)
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To: wiseprince

The recording was on an aide’s laptop. She testified before a special grand jury back in March, after the DOJ imaged her laptop... all under subpoena.

Her name is Margo Martin.


53 posted on 06/06/2023 3:53:43 PM PDT by trustverify0128
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tubby should be ashamed of himself


54 posted on 06/06/2023 4:11:16 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Boogieman
Never let the fools live that down. At least not until they admit their foolishness and apologize, which I expect they will never do.

Even worse... "Trust sessions".

OMG, it amazing how delusional people can be.

55 posted on 06/06/2023 9:55:40 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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