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Claritie Pixie

(2,199 posts)
Sun Aug 11, 2019, 01:11 PM Aug 2019

Remember when Barr recused himself from the Epstein case?

Because of past family connections to Epstein?

Then changed his mind shortly thereafter?

Someone gave him a talking-to and forced him to un-recuse.

Why was it so important - and to whom - that Barr remain involved?

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Remember when Barr recused himself from the Epstein case? (Original Post) Claritie Pixie Aug 2019 OP
Yes. yes. yes. So here's what we should be asking. underthematrix Aug 2019 #1
Agree. Claritie Pixie Aug 2019 #2
I haven't seen the photo on the left... lapfog_1 Aug 2019 #7
Daddy's Little Princess was sexualized early Hekate Aug 2019 #10
Donald's date, courtesy of Epstein. nt Ilsa Aug 2019 #14
Look at how he's "holding" her hand. He's got a vice-like grip on it and she's not holding his back. Claritie Pixie Aug 2019 #17
Wow, Ivanka looks just like... PandoraAwakened Aug 2019 #21
And who had the power to make it happen in the first place. sandensea Aug 2019 #12
Gee, I wonder .... KPN Aug 2019 #3
Co conspirator #1. marble falls Aug 2019 #4
Barr was "partially" recused, I guess.... FM123 Aug 2019 #5
Yep. Read about that yesterday. Miles Archer Aug 2019 #6
Because Epstein had the dirt on Trump. What else could it be? YOHABLO Aug 2019 #8
Barr and Epstein likely have a decades long personal acquaintance. PufPuf23 Aug 2019 #9
Wait. Born the same year but Epstein was hired KPN Aug 2019 #11
I don't think Epstein got a college degree. Ilsa Aug 2019 #15
Epstein didn't have an AA, BA, BS, MS, MA, M.Ed or PhD underthematrix Aug 2019 #16
That was a mistake by me. Epstein born 1953 Wm Barr born 1950 PufPuf23 Aug 2019 #19
Epstein was born in 1953. Meadowoak Aug 2019 #18
I goofed and just fixed. Thank you. nt PufPuf23 Aug 2019 #20
He does seem to have some interest in the case... kentuck Aug 2019 #13
People kept thinking Barr wanted to work for Trump because of some strong opinion on Laws JI7 Aug 2019 #22

lapfog_1

(29,194 posts)
7. I haven't seen the photo on the left...
Sun Aug 11, 2019, 02:09 PM
Aug 2019

who is the "woman" in the photo... when was it taken? How old was she?

never mind...Ivanka... omg she was young and dressed like someone much older.

Not as creepy as some I've seen of her... but yikes.

Claritie Pixie

(2,199 posts)
17. Look at how he's "holding" her hand. He's got a vice-like grip on it and she's not holding his back.
Sun Aug 11, 2019, 03:30 PM
Aug 2019

Plus her face looks blank. Nothing there.

PandoraAwakened

(905 posts)
21. Wow, Ivanka looks just like...
Mon Aug 12, 2019, 05:27 AM
Aug 2019

...an underage Eastern European sex slave. Wonder where daddy ever got the idea to dress her up like that?

sandensea

(21,604 posts)
12. And who had the power to make it happen in the first place.
Sun Aug 11, 2019, 03:04 PM
Aug 2019


"Can you believe the Democrats thought Epstein would talk, Bill?"

"Well. Barring something untoward."

FM123

(10,053 posts)
5. Barr was "partially" recused, I guess....
Sun Aug 11, 2019, 01:35 PM
Aug 2019
While it was once thought that Barr would be recusing himself from having oversight on the Epstein prosecution, on July 9, it was clarified that Barr consulted with career ethics officials at the department, and concluded that he only needed to recuse himself from the internal Justice Department probe of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, and his involvement of approving a highly controversial no-prosecution deal with Epstein back in the 2008.

Barr did not recuse himself from Epstein’s current prosecution in Manhattan, and is now instructing the Department of Justice’s inspector general to open a probe into the disgraced financier’s death. Before Epstein’s alleged suicide, he was facing 45 years in prison if convicted of conspiracy and sex trafficking dozens of underage girls in New York and Florida.

There is concern over William Barr’s involvement in Epstein’s case, not only for the way he handled Robert Mueller’s testimony over the Russian probe, but because of his personal ties with Epstein himself.


https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/william-barrs-personal-ties-jeffrey-epstein/

PufPuf23

(8,756 posts)
9. Barr and Epstein likely have a decades long personal acquaintance.
Sun Aug 11, 2019, 02:24 PM
Aug 2019

Last edited Sun Aug 11, 2019, 05:18 PM - Edit history (1)

Barr born 1950, Epstein born 1950. Edit Epstein born 1953.

Barr's father hired Epstein age 20 (William Barr then 23) to teach math at Dalton School.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_School

PufPuf23

(8,756 posts)
19. That was a mistake by me. Epstein born 1953 Wm Barr born 1950
Sun Aug 11, 2019, 05:17 PM
Aug 2019

Point is that Epstein age 20 came to work at Dalton School where Wm Barr's father was headmaster. Wm Barr was then 23 and likely became acquainted with Epstein initially at that times.

JI7

(89,241 posts)
22. People kept thinking Barr wanted to work for Trump because of some strong opinion on Laws
Mon Aug 12, 2019, 05:32 AM
Aug 2019

and the power of the presidency and other legal shit.

but i think it's more likely that it was all about protecting themselves .

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