Posted on 02/13/2020 3:05:18 PM PST by bitt
Attorney General Bill Barr told ABC News on Thursday that President Trump's tweets "make it impossible for me to do my job," in an unusual swipe at the president, although he emphasized that Trump "has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case."
"I think it’s time to stop the tweeting about Department of Justice criminal cases," Barr said. "I'm not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody ... whether it’s Congress, a newspaper editorial board, or the president.”
Barr continued, "I'm gonna do what I think is right, and you know... I cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me."
The attorney general said he could not "assure the courts and the prosecutors and the department that we're doing our work with integrity" if the executive branch appeared involved in DOJ decisionmaking.
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I’ll support Barr’s position on this. Trump should stop tweeting regarding any investigation Barr is doing.
He can tweet about everything else, but in the long run it will be better if Barr is free to do his job without the Trump tweets.
Look for this to soon become the Pearl Clutching Thread v2.0 on this topic.
This is the one time I hope the President follows such advice. He should.
So grab your bagpipes and quit, fat boy. You’re as useless as Sessions.
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He's free to do it now and just needs to get on with the f'n thing instead of whining to the Enemedia about it.
Since when is the DOJ not in the Executive Branch? How can the Chief Law Enforcement officer interfere with his own direct responsibility? All of this in light of the fact that the DOJ/FBI/CIA have been hopelessly corrupt.
Fair enough Bill but it’s time to start leveling the field and start indicting the criminals and firing the leekers.
Barr did not help himself today. I guess Trump is going to have to personally fire everyone in the DOJ to clean out the rot. Barr seems unwilling to do it either.
Telling Trump not to tweet is like telling Grant not to pursue the enemy. They’d all just love it, wouldn’t they?
Barr is correct on this. He probably went public with this sentiment, because the president has ignored his privately made request to stay mum on the issue. Everyone know Trump reads almost everything written in the press about him.
Let the legal process play out, THEN, come back in to “fix things”, as we all expect Mr. Trump to do in the end.
Yeah, and stop saying s*** like this in public
You gotta beef with The President, tell him privately....no others in the room
Good grief, what’s wrong with these people?
Oh, and btw ABC . . .where we you when OCommie and Holder were mouthing off and influencing cases, especially on the state level?
Agree. However - mission accomplished, as I suspect Trump’s purpose was to elevate some issues and give Barr the opportunity to take the high road. No one on the left hates Barr as much as they hate Trump, so this cleverly puts them in the position of supporting Barr!
We’re in 4D Chess country now.
Mr. Barr, exactly when do you plan on doing your job? As near as anyone can tell, all you have done is pass on prosecuting Comey, McCabe and anyone else. So what have you done?
This mess with Stone and Flynn has gone on long enough and now all we see is our Attorney General complaining about tweets.
I find it risible that Trump's public remarks prevent Barr from being free to do his job. I can understand that Barr might be annoyed, and respect his right to be publicy vocal about it. If the courts and DOJ are influenced by political jabs, we have a big problem with so-called "blind" justice.
Which is exactly what we have - a politically driven, not justice driven, court and justice system. Bands of petty tyrants waving "the law" around as thought it is a talisman. All the while they are completely free to abuse their discretion and power.
So, Bagpipe Bill, it was your justice clowns that pulled this crap on Stone.....albeit before you were in charge.
Since you’ve blustered about looking into the Deep State coup, you may want to back off and follow your Boss’s que. Do your phucking job. We’re watching.
This comes across as Barr trying to curry favor from the Enemy, the MSM.
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