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Lindsey Graham: ‘I Will Do Everything in My Power’ to Confirm William Barr as Attorney General
Breitbart ^ | Dec 7 2018 | Sean Moran

Posted on 12/07/2018 11:06:54 AM PST by conservative98

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who will likely become the next Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, praised President Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, William Barr, on Friday, saying he is “highly capable, highly respected and will provide new and much-needed leadership for the Department of Justice.”

President Trump confirmed that on Friday, he will nominate as his next attorney general the man who served as attorney general from 1991-1993 during the George H.W. Bush administration.

“He was my first choice since day one,” Trump said on Friday morning.

Sen. Graham, who will likely replace the outgoing Judiciary chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), praised Trump’s nominee.

“President Trump made an outstanding decision in nominating William Barr to serve as the next Attorney General,” Graham said.“Mr. Barr is highly capable, highly respected and will provide new and much-needed leadership for the Department of Justice.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
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To: zeestephen

Yes, we’ve already been over this. The whole of our corrupt stasi state is in open rebellion to Trump. Both parties, corrupt courts, and fakestream media. That makes him President in name only. No one in D.C. even recognizes his legitimacy to be President. Putin put him in office dontcha know.

My guess is they’re refusing to release the fisa docs and they’re also blackmailing him with the mueller coup(not a guess). Then again, he maybe literally under the gun. He or his family.

Use your imagination.


61 posted on 12/07/2018 10:14:23 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: Electric Graffiti

My guess is they’re refusing to release the fisa docs and they’re also blackmailing him with the mueller coup(not a guess). Then again, he maybe literally under the gun. He or his family.


Yep. That’s exactly what page I am on. At this point I am assuming Rotten Rod flipped POTUS the bird and didn’t give up the docs. Dared him to fire him for insubordination and without the support of his own party POTUS could not risk it becaues his entire agenda would grind to a halt in the hysteria.


62 posted on 12/07/2018 10:34:56 PM PST by lodi90
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To: zeestephen

Bottom Line - 40% of likely voters think Trump should be impeached. The fact that Trump will not release any documents in his own defense often makes me wonder if he, or someone he loves, is guilty of something.


Ridiculous assertion. Trump does not have the support of his own party. His admin is in open rebellion. After Comey’s testimony today it is clear he does not have control of the executive branch and without his party covering his flanks he is powerless to change that.


63 posted on 12/07/2018 10:37:23 PM PST by lodi90
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To: lodi90

Re: “Ridiculous assertion.”

I disagree.

Trump can pull up the FISA warrants on his Oval Office computer and post them on the White House web site - any time he wants to.

Almost 50 years ago the Supreme Court decided that publishing the classified “Pentagon Papers” was not a crime because “a compelling public interest” outweighs the government’s right to secrecy.

There would be no legal consequences if Trump - who is the Chief Executive Officer of the DOJ - released the FISA warrants.


64 posted on 12/07/2018 11:25:35 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: patriotfury

The “righting” = *writing* is on the wall.

Wow! Nice.


65 posted on 12/07/2018 11:52:05 PM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: JoSixChip

What do you actually know about Barr? Lindsey says he will fully support trump’s intentions...until he falls back off the ledge, I’ll appreciate him....and I trust Trump to be learning from past mistakes.


66 posted on 12/08/2018 2:53:45 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

As long as Barr follows the laws in the USA I think he’ll do just fine.


67 posted on 12/08/2018 2:56:25 AM PST by marajade
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To: conservative98

Oh how I wish the sages on this site would run for POTUS and show PDJT how it’s done!

If I was Trump, I would go back to private life after this term and tell the nation to F*ck off!


68 posted on 12/08/2018 6:31:56 AM PST by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: conservative98

Ugh, not Bondi.


69 posted on 12/08/2018 7:37:51 AM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: Bob434
"Trump should nominate Rosseanne Barr- Imagine the headlines for the next few years lol"

_________________

lol

70 posted on 12/08/2018 7:38:21 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: Artcore

If Trump goes back to private life after one term, I wouldn’t be surprised nor blame him one bit.


71 posted on 12/08/2018 7:49:00 AM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: catnipman; JoSixChip

Well what I can’t really understand is how someone who worked 2 years in the Reagan administration can 35 years later be viewed as not being a good choice. Seriously, would Reagan have a hard time winning today’s GOP nomination. He was turned my family into Reagan Democrats, and I made the final move to Reagan Republican (was 14 in 1980 so could not vote the first time he ran vs. Carter)


72 posted on 12/08/2018 7:49:29 AM PST by CTrent1564
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To: ncalburt; JoSixChip; Bob434
Finding anyone decent and honorable in D.C. to be A.G. was at least as difficult as finding a beautiful woman in this group.

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We are doomed because entire D.C./government is nearly completely corrupt.

73 posted on 12/08/2018 7:58:32 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Did he used to go by the name Bob Barr? Or am I thinking of someone else?


74 posted on 12/08/2018 10:26:30 AM PST by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: ColdOne

Bob Barr is a different person.


75 posted on 12/08/2018 12:10:30 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: zeestephen

I don’t know if Bush appointed him because he was black, or not; all I know is that he is one of the best SC justices in recent history. Sadly, as we have all seen, some of the appointments are huge disappointments. We’ve just gotten two great ones. We should get one or two more in the not too distant future. Thank GOD it’s the Senate who confirms, and not the House. (Ryan’s House wouldn’t have been any better than the upcoming one -— he would have seen to that, the snake). If Trump accomplished nothing else, SC appointments would be worth it all.


76 posted on 12/08/2018 12:26:43 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: BuddhaBrown
Yours is a good post. Barr was not much-loved by the Shrubs. He is a Reaganite conservative. I almost sense he is itching for some payback.

Think about it, the CIA told him to go Deep State and sent him to GWU night school (the same school that Chuck Todd could not managed to graduate from).

"After cutting short his intelligence career, Barr clerked for a federal judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals, worked in private practice, and did a stint as a domestic policy adviser under President Ronald Reagan. He then returned to private practice before joining the Bush campaign in 1988, where he helped select then-Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle to be the vice president's running mate."

"Barr has emerged as a sometimes defender of the president in the press. In 2017, he told The New York Times that the Justice Department may have more cause to look at a controversial uranium deal involving Hillary Clinton than any alleged collusion between Mr. Trump and Russia." [ed.note: Oh, hello tagline]

A 2nd term domestic policy analyst under Reagan? Now we know who prompted discussion of consolidating/eliminating Dept. of Education! And of course, even Reagan fell prey to the argument that eliminating Cabinets eliminates Executive power.

77 posted on 12/08/2018 1:21:52 PM PST by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Thanks, I thought his pic looked different. Didn’t like him much.


78 posted on 12/08/2018 1:24:40 PM PST by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: Flaming Conservative
Re: “We’ve just gotten two great ones.”

I think the jury is still out on Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.

After Clarence Thomas and Scalia testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee, I was absolutely certain they were both rock solid Conservative judges.

After watching John Roberts, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh testify, I felt like all three of them might end up as centrists or even center-left.

The good news?

Trump's judicial appointments are better than Hillary Clinton's appointments would have been - which is why I voted for Trump.

79 posted on 12/08/2018 2:48:12 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: StAnDeliver
"A 2nd term domestic policy analyst under Reagan? Now we know who prompted discussion of consolidating/eliminating Dept. of Education!..."

I like your thinking on Barr. And I hope the Senate will scratch his itch quickly so we can see what his various govt and private experiences have made him into today. I don't recall having any serious reservations about him back in the glory days of the Reagan era.

I do, though, think you might be off a few years in your quote above. Dept of Ed Secretary Bell, Reagan 1st term, from the beginning was expected by many to help eliminate his own dept. Nowadays we'd say the swamp got him as he later became a driving force to save the dang dept.

Coincidentally, my father was appointed by Reagan as special asst to Bell for a year or so in the early days. As an outsider, my old man (a professor of education administration, retired but still kicking hard, thank the Lord) was frustrated by the high gravity of power in DC, even for a dept that had only been born one admin prior. Young or old, central power does not devolve easily. Reagan, like Trump made some dept head picks which did not work out as planned. Leading some campaign promises / goals on to failure.

But definitely the idea to eliminate Fed Ed was there from the start of the RR revolution. Not just a second term domestic policy item - Bell's turncoat (IMO) influence had already watered/drown the momentum by then as I recall. To be fair, Bell did advocate a relatively light-handed Fed Ed. But as you know, such a creature exists only in mythology.

Reagan had a much clearer mission than Trump, one in pursuit of making America free again.

Trump has a much fuzzier mission, one in pursuit of some subjective greatness. But he loves America, has big balls and learns quickly. Hopefully, someday Reagan's brighter vision will come out of Trump's bigger mouth.

80 posted on 12/08/2018 3:00:41 PM PST by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
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