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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsButthead Barr makes it clear--again--that he intends to drop the Durham report before the election
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/3/1974721/-Barr-makes-it-clear-that-the-60-day-rule-won-t-stop-him-from-using-DOJ-as-part-of-Trump-s-campaign. . .
As Trump continues to show that he will say anything, Barr continues to make it equally clear that he will do anything to back up Trumps statements and actions. As CNN notes, Barr was aggressively belligerent in a Wednesday night interview, making it clear that he is more than willing to break the 60-day rule, or any other rule, if thats what it takes to keep Trump planted in the White House.
Barr wasnt just unwilling to agree that Durhams international quest for lies wouldnt be packaged up for release before November 3, he was all in on Trumps statements about how mail-in ballots lead to fraud. These were especially egregious statements coming from an official charged with keeping the elections safe and who knows that there is no evidence backing such claims.
CNN: "You've said you're worried a foreign country could send thousands of fake ballots ... what are you basing that on?"
Barr: "Logic."
CNN: "But have you seen any evidence?"
Barr: No.
But Barr doesnt seem to need any evidence. Or rules.
Because in the CNN interview, he repeated that he doesnt believe the 60-day rule applies to the Durham investigation. "I will handle these cases as appropriate, said Barr, and I do not think anything we do in the Durham investigation is going to be affecting the election."
Of course not. Just because Barr accompanied Durham to Rome where he tried to convince Italian authorities to join him in claims that professor Joseph Mifsud was secretly a CIA plant put in place months in advance to snare Trump adviser George Papadopoulos into trying to make contact with Russian officials, doesnt mean theres anything political about the investigation. Just because Barr was already secretly working with Durham at the time he redacted the Mueller report. Just because Barr and Durham dropped in on Australian intelligence and unsuccessfully tried to get them to agree that that Australian official Alexander Downer planted false evidence against Carter Page. Just because Barr has made it absolutely clear that the Durham investigation is broad in scope and multifaceted including trying find some basis behind the Ukraine fantasy behind Trumps impeachmenta conspiracy aimed directly at generating false evidence against Joe Biden none of that makes it political.
As Trump continues to show that he will say anything, Barr continues to make it equally clear that he will do anything to back up Trumps statements and actions. As CNN notes, Barr was aggressively belligerent in a Wednesday night interview, making it clear that he is more than willing to break the 60-day rule, or any other rule, if thats what it takes to keep Trump planted in the White House.
Barr wasnt just unwilling to agree that Durhams international quest for lies wouldnt be packaged up for release before November 3, he was all in on Trumps statements about how mail-in ballots lead to fraud. These were especially egregious statements coming from an official charged with keeping the elections safe and who knows that there is no evidence backing such claims.
CNN: "You've said you're worried a foreign country could send thousands of fake ballots ... what are you basing that on?"
Barr: "Logic."
CNN: "But have you seen any evidence?"
Barr: No.
But Barr doesnt seem to need any evidence. Or rules.
Because in the CNN interview, he repeated that he doesnt believe the 60-day rule applies to the Durham investigation. "I will handle these cases as appropriate, said Barr, and I do not think anything we do in the Durham investigation is going to be affecting the election."
Of course not. Just because Barr accompanied Durham to Rome where he tried to convince Italian authorities to join him in claims that professor Joseph Mifsud was secretly a CIA plant put in place months in advance to snare Trump adviser George Papadopoulos into trying to make contact with Russian officials, doesnt mean theres anything political about the investigation. Just because Barr was already secretly working with Durham at the time he redacted the Mueller report. Just because Barr and Durham dropped in on Australian intelligence and unsuccessfully tried to get them to agree that that Australian official Alexander Downer planted false evidence against Carter Page. Just because Barr has made it absolutely clear that the Durham investigation is broad in scope and multifaceted including trying find some basis behind the Ukraine fantasy behind Trumps impeachmenta conspiracy aimed directly at generating false evidence against Joe Biden none of that makes it political.
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Butthead Barr makes it clear--again--that he intends to drop the Durham report before the election (Original Post)
CousinIT
Sep 2020
OP
This isn't 2016 and Nothing they say or do at this point is going to stick
Thekaspervote
Sep 2020
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Thekaspervote
(32,765 posts)1. This isn't 2016 and Nothing they say or do at this point is going to stick
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)5. Agree
It could very likely backfire.
Me.
(35,454 posts)2. His Credibility Has Been Shredded
he is now recoged as a big fat liar
kentuck
(111,094 posts)3. What's it going to say?
Will it be rumors or facts?
Walleye
(31,019 posts)4. They just can't let go of that election
brooklynite
(94,541 posts)6. Meh...
Nobody's going to know, much less care who any of those people are. If that's the best October Surprise they've got...
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)7. Pardon my ignorance, but what is the "60 Day Rule"? nt
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)8. basically a quiet period before the election
Either present before or hold until after so as not to be political and drop something just prior to the election.
Last cycle Comey broke this with the BS Hillary email story. (Claiming there was new info)
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)9. Got it. Thanks. nt