...as soon as she figures out how to get Barr to assign a prosecutor to investigate himself.
Posted on 05/02/2019 2:47:36 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Democrats outraged over Attorney General William Barr’s handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report are increasing their fire, threatening to hold him in contempt and even suggesting they could seek his impeachment.
The cries for Barr’s head exploded on Thursday after the attorney general skipped a House hearing one day after his testimony before a Senate panel shed new light on his differences with Mueller, the ex-FBI chief who led a two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Democrats left an empty chair for Barr as they opened a hearing that would go nowhere. Afterward, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) led her press conference by accusing Barr of committing a crime.
“He lied to Congress, and if anybody else did that it would be considered a crime,” she said. “Nobody is above the law; not the president of the United States, and not the attorney general.”
Pelosi did not rule out jail time as a potential punishment if Barr is later found to have broken the law.
“I really lost sleep last night after watching over and over again this testimony of the attorney general of the United States,” Pelosi said.
Pelosi’s harsh denunciation of Barr reflects the real anger of rank-and-file Democrats, who see him as a political operative seeking to protect President Trump at all costs.
But the political theater — Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) showed up with a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken at the early-morning hearing to make a point about Barr’s lack of courage — obscured the fact that in focusing their ire on Barr, Democrats were not focused on impeaching his boss, a more divisive issue in the party.
Asked about the status of the Trump impeachment effort, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) acknowledged the scrutiny, at least this week, has veered elsewhere.
“I'm hearing about the impeachment for Bill Barr,” Khanna said. “I think he needs to resign, and he's been probably the most guilty of obstructing an investigation.”
Democrats have long been wary of Barr, who had raised eyebrows last year in arguing that Mueller had no basis for investigating Trump for obstructing justice. But the Democrats’ reservations with the attorney general have mushroomed this week after revelations that Mueller was frustrated with Barr’s initial framing of the investigators’ findings — and had expressed that agitation directly to the attorney general.
Mueller’s concerns consumed much of the oxygen during Barr’s appearance Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Democrats hammered Barr to explain testimony he gave last month, when he suggested Mueller’s team had no problems with Barr’s summary of the report.
Multiple Democrats called for Barr to resign or be impeached, including Reps. Eric Swalwell (Calif.), Veronica Escobar (Texas), Kathleen Rice (N.Y.), Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Maxine Waters (Calif.).
Swalwell accused Barr of prejudging the special counsel's report, accusing the FBI of lying, lying to Congress and refusing to comply with a subpoena “all to protect the president.”
“There's only one thing left to do. Impeach him,” tweeted Swalwell, a member of the House Judiciary Committee who is running for president.
“He has abdicated on his responsibility. He has lied,” Waters, the House Financial Services Committee chairwoman, said of Barr on MSNBC’s “All in with Chris Hayes” Tuesday night.
Another Judiciary Committee member, Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.), called for Barr to resign and endorsed the idea of holding him in contempt of Congress.
“He has proven incapable of obeying the oath of office to uphold the Constitution of the United States,” Demings said.
Republicans rushed to Barr’s defense, accusing House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) of making unreasonable demands on Barr’s appearance.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered a speech on the Senate floor blasting Democrats for allowing Cohen to mock Barr.
“You tell me whether or not the chair of that committee is actually serious about the subject when you've got a guy eating fried chicken in place of where they wanted Attorney General Barr to be,” Tillis said as he stood by an enlarged photo of Cohen eating the chicken.
“This guy didn't even have good enough sense to have Bojangles chicken,” Tillis added.
Democrats are vowing to press on, although some suggested a focus on ousting Barr might be a waste of time, since Trump would likely choose a replacement with similar legal views.
“The illusory thing about resignation as a remedy is the suggestion that somebody better might come back later. I hold out no hopes for that,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a former constitutional law professor. “But he certainly should resign if he has any professional self-respect left.”
Here We Go – FBI Admits Using Spies Against Trump Campaign
Conservative Treehouse ^ | May 2, 2019 | Sundance
Posted on 5/2/2019, 2:18:06 PM by detective
A report in the New York Times, transparently timed and placed by officials within the intelligence apparatus trying to get out ahead of internal investigations, outlines how the FBI sent counterintelligence spies to engage with Trump campaign officials in 2016.
In a stunning admission The New York Times describes how the FBI enlisted a female agent to work the “operation” in the U.K. during August-September 2016 posing as an aide for U.S. intelligence asset/FBI informant Stefan Halper.
Halper was an FBI operative and Cambridge professor who set up meetings with Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos. The female agent used a fake name, Azra Turk, and presented herself as an assistant to Stefan Halper; however, she was actually an undercover intelligence operative of the FBI.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
The chicken stunt. No other proof necessary that we are contending with a bunch of deranged juvenile minds.
What exactly is this so-called “lie.” I haven’t heard any of the insane clown policy tell us what Barr said that is a “lie.” I didn’t hear any such thing. Just a guy telling them the truth, which they obviously can’t handle.
I’m asking the same thing....please ping me if you ever find out.
TIA.
Sounds to me like their *impeachment proceedings*, via having their attorneys question Barr, instead of them doing THEIR job, backfired and they’re pitching a fit.
...as soon as she figures out how to get Barr to assign a prosecutor to investigate himself.
This is just phase two of the coup.
Mr President, I think it is time to take the wind out of their sails, DECLASSIFY AND RELEASE, Pronto!
“If they pass a law I will defy it as illegitimate.”
I hold every gun control law of the past 150 years in utter contempt.
...just friday afternoon news drop....
..isn’t next week the week Comey gets
indicted?
It’s time to start lodging whatever criminal charges are available - true or false - against every single Democrat in Congress. Every last one.
They must be crushed into oblivion and no quarter should be given. They will kill us if they win, and that’s not a maybe - that is their stated intent.
They are terrified of Barr.
Because Barr is investigating the false accusations and the democrat apparatus that caused them to occur.
...... Hey ..... It's Pelosi ..... So .... You have to Impeach him First ..... to find out what he Lied About ....
The DOJ responded “GO TO HELL”.
It sounds like there won't be any rules in the house if need be.
He [Barr] is after the leakers and those who used the leaks!
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An avalanche of bad news is about to cascade down upon the Democrat political operatives who attempted to undermine our duly elected president. The abused power and weaponized many of the federal agencies. Their subversion and treason is about to be fully exposed and many of them will be held accountable. They know full well what’s coming and they are trying to create distractions from the approaching storm. But Barr won’t be deterred from exposing every last one of them.
Nancy Pelosi looks like she has morphed into an insane, melting witch...her entire face has taken on the looks and presentation of a rotting, evil, female, mummy who is about to be melted away into forever obscurity for all eternity. Why? Nancy knows the “The Democrat Traitor/Turncoat, America Hating criminals are being fingered for their crimes and that justice is afoot.
She is frightened and terrified the these rotten low life Democrat birdies will sing a tune that sends the likes of Obama & Clinton to jail....and that is exactly what is happening right now!!! God bless POTUS, Donald J. Trump & Attorney General, William Barr!!!
If I were Jerrold Nadler or Adam Schiff, I would pack my bags and leave town...never to return!!! What idiots!!!
'No.'
All of these knuckleheads are guilty of obstruction of justice since they want to stop Barr from prosecuting Hillary’s cabal.
The dude did nothing wrong. In fact he is a deep stater who is facing the out of control communist terrorists
The insanes are out of the hot house.
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