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Bill Barr: "The tactic that Trump is using to exert this control over the Republican Party is extortion"
Yahoo News ^ | August 25, 2022 | David Knowles

Posted on 08/25/2022 7:22:45 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

Former Attorney General William Barr said that former President Donald Trump was resorting to “extortion” to continue to exert influence over the Republican Party, and said he still hasn’t decided what to make of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago and the government’s recovery of hundreds of pages of classified documents.

In a lengthy interview published Thursday, former New York Times editor Bari Weiss asked Barr why more Republicans did not simply come out and say that Trump’s claims that election fraud had prevented him from winning the 2020 election were, to use Barr's previous word, “bullshit.”

“The tactic that Trump is using to exert this control over the Republican Party is extortion,” Barr said of his former boss. “What other great leader has done this? Telling the party, ‘If it’s not me, I’m going to ruin your election chances by telling my base to sit home. And I’ll sabotage whoever you nominate other than me.’ It shows what he’s all about. He’s all about himself.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andagain; backstabber; bagpipes; billbarr; billbarrel; buffaloedbill; creepstate; deepstate; extortion; fakenews; policestate; singlepartystate; stolenelection; tds; trump
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To: central_va

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Durham is a fraud who wants to rehab the FBi Coup Operation.


61 posted on 08/25/2022 8:11:32 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad .at Joe Biden)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Since day one the republican party leadership wanted Trump gone and to keep the Tat view...The only extortion that President Trump is doing is that of telling the leadership if you want my supporters then you have to keep me happy.


62 posted on 08/25/2022 8:11:57 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: central_va


Fraud Durham has been pulling his scam for

1,215 DAYS





63 posted on 08/25/2022 8:16:36 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad .at Joe Biden)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

This is a “jump the shark” comment.

A politician endorsing his preferred candidates is hardly anything new. Let alone “extortion.”


64 posted on 08/25/2022 8:22:00 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: DoughtyOne

14. Barr is an absolute idiot, period! Every thing else is just piling more crap on crap.


65 posted on 08/25/2022 8:35:29 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: Macho MAGA Man
This guy is a lawyer? Perhaps he could explain extortion without a monetary component?
66 posted on 08/25/2022 8:37:58 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: BenLurkin; Liz

Do you have the plots for Georgia and arizona?


67 posted on 08/25/2022 8:38:44 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; ...

Rope. Tree.

Derp State traitors must swing.


68 posted on 08/25/2022 8:54:21 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

FU BB - u useless criminal like pence!


69 posted on 08/25/2022 9:05:55 PM PDT by ldish (This ILLEGAL Govt is incompetent - WHO REALLY PULLS THE STRINGS IN THIS MAFIA?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Pence, Barr Mcconnell are doing everything they already to throw away 2022 and 2024 just to spite TRUMP - I hate these chumps as much as all the hateful dem treasonous bastards of the USA - All are criminals in the govt that has lost its way so badly that it can NOT be saved - it has to be torn to shreds and started all over with only one department - the BORDER CONTROL and DEFENSE of the NEW FREEDOM STATES of the REPUBLIC!


70 posted on 08/25/2022 9:12:04 PM PDT by ldish (This ILLEGAL Govt is incompetent - WHO REALLY PULLS THE STRINGS IN THIS MAFIA?)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

It is an established FACT that election laws in multiple close states were ignored, and that courts later “OK’d” ignoring the laws on the books.

The legislature is supposed to make the laws, NOT THE COURT!

Courts can’t just ignore the laws when they want!

Trump is right about feeling that the election was stolen from him because the RULES were not followed! It doesn’t matter that courts rubber-stamped the rules not being followed!


71 posted on 08/25/2022 9:12:52 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Sod Off, LardAssBarr.


72 posted on 08/25/2022 10:00:55 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Barr defended the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team after Lon Horiuchi blew Vicki Weaver’s head off while she was holding her baby in her arms.

Even the Mafia didn’t go around whacking Moms holding infants.

FUBB


73 posted on 08/25/2022 10:03:57 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man
What other great leader has done this? Telling the party, ‘If it’s not me, I’m going to ruin your election chances by telling my base to sit home. And I’ll sabotage whoever you nominate other than me.’ It shows what he’s all about. He’s all about himself.”

Many - all? - leaders have done so.

74 posted on 08/26/2022 2:58:38 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

In his next administration, Trump needs to make certain swamp weasels are not given any positions of authority, and his S-I-L Kushner is kept far away from the Oval Office.


75 posted on 08/26/2022 6:30:20 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Oh my, another gop deep state hack clutching their perils as they faint because some outsiders are trying to enter THEIR country club. Yes, it’s a fight for the Republican Party. This is the way politics works. And if the old entrenched corrupt power brokers like Cheney and McConnell don’t like it, they can save us all a lot of time by just leaving and joining the democrats. Otherwise they can sit on top and watch their machines be dismantled piece by piece from beneath them.


76 posted on 08/26/2022 6:32:40 AM PDT by Bull Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Hey Bill... look up the definition of “calumny”... ‘cause that’s what you are engaged in.


77 posted on 08/26/2022 6:34:17 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Anybody still think Barr is a white hat?


78 posted on 08/26/2022 7:04:15 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Macho MAGA Man


79 posted on 08/26/2022 7:12:06 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

(In his next administration, Trump needs to make certain swamp weasels are not given any positions of authority)

How’s he supposed to do that when his administration choices have to get Mitch McConnell’s approval for key positions? That’s what happened before.


80 posted on 08/26/2022 8:03:24 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (No!)
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