Posted on 02/14/2020 6:29:47 AM PST by Hojczyk
In an exclusive interview with Pierre Thomas of ABC News, Attorney General William Barr said he will not be “bullied” by President Trump or anyone else.
Barr also indicated that the president’s commentary, often delivered via Twitter, makes it “impossible” for Barr to do his job.
To have public statements and tweets made about the Department (of Justice), about people in the Department, or men and women here, about cases pending in the Department, and about judges before whom we have cases, make it impossible for me to do my job to assure the courts and the prosecutors and the Department that we’re doing our work with integrity… I cannot do my job at the department with the constant background commentary that undercuts me.
William Barr, U.S. Attorney General Listen to the interview by clicking the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjYoPFbaj9M&feature=emb_logo
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How about the undercutting of our president by the various parts of the government of which you are the head.
You think Trump can do his job effectively when your weasels are playing pure politics...
Talk about impossible. He has accomplished miracles without your help....
You knew who and how he was when you took the job..............so shaddup and try doing yours!
I hope our POTUS keeps Tweeeting! It’s the only way to get the truth out!
Let Trump be Trump!
I hope our POTUS keeps Tweeeting! It’s the only way to get the truth out!
Let Trump be Trump!
One of his spokespersons on Faux surely indicated that. I sure he will nuance his words, but I doubt he will stop.
All he is doing is saying “ do you job” and when injustice is so glaringly obvious speed it up.
You guys don’t know how to street fight.
For the most part you play political boxing. e.g. you win this round to make your supporters happy, I win the next.
Then in the end its declared a tie, and we both go one with our kabuki theater.
I think there is a distinct possibility that Barr did this on purpose. Many are going after Barr. Trump can take the hit and it strengthens Barr so he can continue the swamp draining.
And the problem is not all this...the problem is the tainted jury. The foreman appears to have been a plant.
I think there is a distinct possibility that Barr did this on purpose. Many are going after Barr. Trump can take the hit and it strengthens Barr so he can continue the swamp draining.
Lets hope so. The Barr Durham report will tell us if this is true, and for the sake of our country I hope it is.
President Trump has learned a lot about politics these past three years.. His Next term is going to be VERY exciting and fun to watch.. :)
Two things:
1) Barr made it very, very clear that Trump had NEVER asked or directed him to change anything about any criminal case; and
2) Because of that statement, I think that there is a distinct possibility that Barr and Trump spoke about this matter and, since they knew that there was already a schiffstorm about Trump’s tweet on the Roger Stone case, they decided to: a) Put to rest any question about whether Trump intervened in that case; and b) Preserve Barr’s position and deflate calls for an investigation or impeachment of Barr. IOW, they could have decided to get ahead of this thing. That Trump would be lambasted by the media only means that today is Friday, no different than any other Friday, or any other day of any other week. In the long run (which these days is no more than about 3 days), NO ONE is going to remember or care about this, because there will be something else.
That said, while I agree with Trump, and that he certainly has the right (as a citizen who didn’t give up his 1st Amendment rights, and as President who can say whatever he wants to or about his subordinates) to tweet, that it is probably disadvantageous for him to tweet about active cases. Of course, the other side of that argument is that he brought attention to the incredible injustice of the DoJ recommendation regarding Stone’s sentence, and that 4 scumbag Obama-holdover prosecutors are now gone. I have not forgotten that President Trump pretty much always does things for a reason; certainly in an unorthodox way, but that has worked well for him almost all of the time since he started his real estate business. He plans out EVERYTHING - I half seriously think that he plans out trips to the throne room.
All things considered, this entire thing will be out of the public’s mind (to the limited extent that it is there in the first place) by no later than Monday morning. I don’t think that Barr went off the reservation, I think that his interview was planned by him and Trump, and that it accomplished their goals. Politics is messy, but Trump is unafraid of getting dirt thrown at him, so long as he wins...and he is most definitely winning.
It makes his job “impossible” only because the Demonrats and the press seize upon the POTUS’s tweets as evidence of pressure on Barr. In actuality, they are expressing the president’s opinion, to which he has every right, and are not intended to pressure Barr.
No, in fact he pointed his finger first at the tainted press...but they won’t criticize themselves. They are selling their own product.
That’s what Barr is saying...the damn media take over and crucify the President at every turn.
The foreman probably lied to get on the jury- under oath. Not smart.
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The judge screens the jury in federal cases not the lawyers...they get to 0jject but the judge has the last word..
Barr is another big disappointment.
Trump has been a target since before he took the office.
Barr acts like Trump is the problem?
Does it take 2 years to get anything of importance done at the AG’s office...?
It seems like everyone is assuming that Barr was referring to the Roger Stone case when he made this comment, but I’m not so sure about that. I think the more relevant Twitter post here was the one Trump posted about Comey, Page and Strzok.
Bingo! If the president and attorney general truly had such serious differences, they would discuss them privately instead of in public. This is theater, intended to create the illusion of a personal rift between the two, and to establish Barr as “independent” from POTUS. It is a diversion, just like with Sessions, Mattis, Kelly and others before. Classic disinformation from strategists toying with tacticians. When Barr strikes, his enemies will have already lauded him. Eisenhower and Patton, anyone?
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