Posted on 05/18/2020 2:24:02 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump said Monday that he was “surprised” by Attorney General William Barr’s statement that he doesn’t anticipate a criminal investigation into former President Obama or former Vice President Joe Biden.
“I think if it was me, they would do it. I think if for them, maybe, they’re not going to,” Trump told reporters Monday afternoon when asked about the attorney general's comments. “I’m surprised because Obama knew everything that was happening.”
“I think it’s just a continuation of a double standard. I am surprised by it,” the president continued.
Barr earlier Monday said he didn’t expect U.S. attorney John Durham’s probe into the FBI’s decision-making in the Russia investigation to lead to criminal investigations of either Obama or Biden.
“Based on the information I have today, I don’t expect Mr. Durham’s work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man,” Barr told reporters. “Our concern over potential criminality is focused on others.”
He also denounced “increasing attempts to use the criminal justice system as a political weapon.”
“As long as I am attorney general, the criminal justice system will not be used for partisan political ends,” Barr said.
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Barf!!
Barr also said “it should never happen again”.
Ok Barr, how do you expect that to stop it if NO ONE IS PUNISHED?
“Trump sure knows how to pick people who undermine the law.”
He has taken the “keep your enemies closer” thing kinda far.
A question I’d really love that windbag to answer.
Tell that to Seth Rich. Oh, that's right, the deep state offed him. Never mind.
Gaspipe Barr and his GOPe benefactors have never had an interest in engaging the coupists. That won’t be changing in the very few months between now and the election.
I do. Leftist will fall on swords for their gods.
...leave 0bama out of the picture.
He would REALLY hate that!!
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I have a recurrent fantasy that whenever zer0 shows up anywhere, he is greeted with crowds that boo, turn their backs and walk away. Rotten produce plays a part in that, as well.
Any way to guarantee it wouldn’t be the same kind of jury that Roger Stone got?
Which would be a DC jury
A DC jury made up of 12 juries from a pool of a 95% Maxine Waters and Hakeem Jeffries demographic
Would be a monumental waste of time, money and political capital
Might as well just hand over the reigns to Biden.
What a worthless sack of puss.
finding an apolitical 12 member jury might be the actual problem...
Trump won because he wasn't a real Republican. He might lose because he's becoming one.
President Trump will play the Golf Cart and fling James Comey into the Time Machine to send him back to December 29, 2003, the day before Comey appointed Patrick Fitzgerald to Special Counsel for the Valerie Plame affair.
The Plames will be discredited, Libby won't be prosecuted, Comey will fade into obscurity, McCain will become a do-nothing one-term President, declining to run again for health reasons that lead to a glorious two-term revival of the United States under the first woman President, Sarah Palin!
-PJ
...pick an honest person someday.
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Among the otherwise qualified, there may not be any.
They probably have dirt on Barr either real or fabricated. He saw what happened to Flynn
Like...impeachment?
Ex presidents will be hounded, and should be if deserved. The open question is if the first will be PT or Obama.
Is anyone seriously counting on the RATs sense of restraint and integrity?
“I imagine that Barr understands that once a former U.S. president is prosecuted, EVERY former president will be prosecuted by the other party the next chance it gets.“
While I understand the reasoning of this, I believe as long as it stands, dirty Presidents like 0bama will continue pushing corruption further and further until we are stuck with complete criminal “administrations” with NO chance to ever clean it up.
Sometimes we HAVE to break tradition and do what’s never been done in order to protect the nation as a whole and prevent things like this from ever happening again.
Honestly, more than 3/4 of Washington DC needs to be locked up in prison if you ask me. They will continue the corruption until they KNOW that they can be destroyed for it.
Apparently Barr is, no?
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