Posted on 02/20/2020 7:08:56 AM PST by karpov
In a cri de coeur for the ages, Attorney General William Barr said in an interview last week that President Trump’s tweets “make it impossible for me to do my job.” Days later in a moment of introspection, Mr. Trump said: “I do make his job harder. I do agree with that.”
Historians someday will identify the current period as the moment something snapped in American politics. The moorings have broken, and we are floating free of any guide ropes. How else to explain not merely disagreements over the term of Roger Stone’s sentence but the mass hysteria it has produced?
Did more than 2,000 former Justice Department officials actually sign a petition calling on Mr. Barr to resign for “doing the president’s personal bidding” on the Stone sentence? Presumably not one of these 2,000 ever argued internally over a sentencing recommendation. Within hours, there were reports that officers of the 1,000-member Federal Judges Association were calling an “emergency meeting” to talk about Mr. Barr.
In public life, tough criticism comes with the job. But what’s going on here is closer to political mania. Allow us to give future historians a head start on deconstructing this case study in the madness of crowds.
The separation from anything resembling normal politics began when Donald Trump won the GOP’s presidential nomination. Exhibit A here will be the charged text exchanges at the FBI between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok.
Set aside the anti-Trump bias. Have FBI officials with this much career experience ever displayed such emotional distress? Eliot Ness must be turning in his grave. Once no more hard-nosed character existed in American culture than the “G-man.” Federal judges in the olden days (before 2016) were largely sober arbiters of the cases before them. Now they call melodramatic “emergency” meetings.
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Bill Barr is not going anywhere until he finishes restoring some integrity back to the DOJ.
WHEN he resigns we will all know AFTER it happens.
“...the moment something snapped in American politics..”
‘moment’? Excuse me!!?
The lying, biased media and everyone who conspired in the ‘snap’ … and who profited personally, professionally and immensely WHILE they slow walked these monkeyshines right up to this ‘moment’ are complaining? Seriously??
Pearl clutchers.
DJT needs fighters not Swampers.
Hyperbolic nonsense based on a false premise created by fake news hacks.
“Attacks will continue”.
Seems like this writer doesn’t understand much about the topic of his article.
Namely, that the individuals within government bureaucracy have been educated in the principles of moral relativism and other poison pills from the “me generation” of the 1960s.
This change has threatened to destroy our nation, and President Trump is not letting it happen.
Barr, who we cannot lose, has a point and so does WSJ.
Trump needs to shut up about this!!!!
Trump should tweet.
But he really needs a tweet editor.
Fire every political appointee in the federal government yesterday and start fresh.
Bill Barr’s job is bigger than President Trump, and if he decides to resign, he hurts America, not resident Trump. Bil Barr needs to grow some steel ones and a metal backbone, and do what is right for this country. Ignore what President Trump might say. President Trump’s input should have little to do with his work that needs to be done. Besides that, if President Trump can work through adversity, as no other President has faced, Bill Bar can do the same.
I hope you’re right. The attacks on Barr here on FR are disgusting, although I’m sure a lot of them are Dem trolls trying to stir up dissension and undermine Trump and Barr.
As the article points out, the “Deep State” has never been worse or more powerful, and you can definitely see the moments when panic began to set in to the ant hive.
They thought they were going to get away with it. First of all, they’d prevent Trump from getting elected, then they’d prevent him from truly occupying the office and doing anything, then they thought they’d get rid of him...and now they realize they’re in genuine danger and they’re out for blood.
Barr is also going for a multi-agency housecleaning, with numerous different investigations going on, and I think the author’s point was very good. He’s not just trying to root out a coup attempt by the intelligence services and assaults on the law by the DOJ, but he wants to restore accountability and legitimacy to the system. A huge task.
Yes, well, Bill Barr also is slow walking the investigation into the whole fiasco of Comey’s manipulation of the FBI and the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, which was a plan to conduct a coup of a duly elected president of the United States.
As recent events have shown, the DOJ is still full of weaponized Obama operatives who are STILL conducting cases which came out of the whole fiasco, Stone and Flynn and others. THERE NEEDS TO BE A PURGE OF ALL OBAMA APPOINTED LAWYERS AT DOJ AND SENIOR MANAGEMENT OFFICERS OF THE FBI.
The writing is on the wall concerning Bill Barr. he is being far too collegiate in the face of what was sedition and treason by those who swore an oath to uphold the constitution BUT who instead have continued their weaponization of the FBI and DOJ against the electoral will of The PEOPLE, and The People apparently count for nothing.
So President Trump is quite right in publicly indicating that all of these cases including, Page, Manefort and Popodopolus , Flynn and Stone were calculated to create a scenario as op[posed to discovering crimes by the president. The DOJ weaponized lawyers thought they could suborn perjury from these accused, but they failed.
NOW ITS TIME to back the whole series of fake political prosecutions up, regardless of who was involved or how well connected the prosecutors are.WE HAVE FRAUD IN THE FISA COURT! COME ON! They ALL need to go. Some need to be behind bars. And meanwhile Barr continues his exercise of collegiality which will result in a couple of low level whipping boys and them moving on?
NO!
BARR needs to go, its only a question of when. I would say that Rudy Giuliani would make and excellent AG.The dirty offices at DOJ and FBI have become weaponized , rancid toilets full of rats, and a damn good house cleaning is in order , even if the exterminators need to be called in.
Did anyone know that Barr is of Ukrainian Bolshevik ancestry? He’s half or more of what Schiff, Nadler and others are, and a collegiate friend of that dirty named Mueller who sat on his exoneration conclusion for a year or more , hoping to find an accused who would perjure himself against president Trump. DIRTY BASTARDS! Mueller and Barr go to the same church, and their wives are best friends.Barr is no longer needed.
No it is now time for the collegial stage act to exit stage left. The criminals at DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSC, NSA all need to be pursued quickly and relentlessly.
The writing is now on the wall with the McCabe exoneration, they had him cold, but refused to prosecute because he likely threatened to take a lot of others at FBI and DOJ with him, which is what should have happened.
Barr blinked and President Trump knows it.
Thread Winner!
Trump is the President. He's the one who hired Barr to begins with. His input has everything to do with what needs to be done.
LOL! Good luck with that one.
“I would say that Rudy Giuliani would make and excellent AG”.
You’re not thinking logically. Do you really believe that Giuliani would be confirmed by the senate?
Barr is a snowflake.
How many us could get away with complaining that what our bosses say is making our jobs harder? He wanted the job — just shut up and do it instead of whining like a child.
So - WSJ is so concerned Trump will screw t up and chase Barr away...yeah, and my 1st Mother-in-Law actually loved my ass...
The part about “The moorings have broken, and we are floating free of any guide ropes” is absolutely right. We are like a ship adrift in a sea of lawlessness and corruption.
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