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kentuck

(111,035 posts)
Tue May 19, 2020, 05:57 AM May 2020

Mr. Barr's Gambit

The Attorney-General, William Barr, made a public statement yesterday about his "special investigator", John Durham. He announced that Mr Durham was unlikely to pursue "criminal charges" against Joe Biden or Barack Obama for the "crime" committed against Donald Trump. Really!

Well, here's a deal for you, Mr Barr. The next Congress, hopefully a Democratic House and Senate, with a Democratic President, will appoint a "special investigator" just for you. How does that sound?

They will investigate why you lied about the Mueller Report and why you didn't investigate all the crimes that were going on around you? And why you felt it necessary to be the lawyer for Donald Trump, rather than the Attorney General for all the people of this country?

They are not likely to pursue "criminal charges", unless they are so blatant and obvious that they have no choice. But what they can do, is to keep the investigation going right up to the next election. And keep it over your head like an axe ready to fall. Surely you will have no problem with that?

If you are looking for sympathy, Mr Barr, and hoping that Democrats will put everything aside in the interest of "bringing the country together", I sincerely hope you are wrong. Your crimes and those of Donald Trump are too much to sweep under the rug. My hope is that a "Special Investigator" will turn over every rock and expose you for just what you are?

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Mr. Barr's Gambit (Original Post) kentuck May 2020 OP
Dirty Billy hopes to make Barr's Dirt Services a permanent replacement of the DoJ. Hermit-The-Prog May 2020 #1
Kamila Harris as AG would indict Barr McCamy Taylor May 2020 #2
Judge Gleeson bucolic_frolic May 2020 #3
Barr Barr Hutt MyOwnPeace May 2020 #4
That thought may have crossed Mr Barr's mind? kentuck May 2020 #5
I think this played heavily on his mind. dmr May 2020 #8
Lock Barr Up! malaise May 2020 #6
Congress needs to bring back the Watergate era special prosecutor NewJeffCT May 2020 #7

bucolic_frolic

(42,980 posts)
3. Judge Gleeson
Tue May 19, 2020, 08:32 AM
May 2020

is perhaps the first salvo. He is straight as an arrow. He was part of the Senator Ted Stevens fallout when DOJ dropped charges. He apparently likes neither crooks nor overzealous prosecutors. DOJ is going to have to be turned inside out at some point. Haven't they had problems over the last 30 years in Boston, NY, and a few others. Seems to me I remember reading here or there. It's not a topic I follow closely or return to frequently.

kentuck

(111,035 posts)
5. That thought may have crossed Mr Barr's mind?
Tue May 19, 2020, 11:41 AM
May 2020

As he was thinking, maybe we will lose the next election and they will come after me? And Donald Trump will not even remember my name...

dmr

(28,339 posts)
8. I think this played heavily on his mind.
Tue May 19, 2020, 11:56 AM
May 2020

He knows he would be overplaying his hand, and most especially- time is running out for the Donald, and for him, too!

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
7. Congress needs to bring back the Watergate era special prosecutor
Tue May 19, 2020, 11:47 AM
May 2020

rather than leave it in the hands of DOJ and the watered down Special Counsel

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