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still_one

(92,061 posts)
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 08:24 AM Sep 2020

'Highly unusual': Bill Barr's Russiagate prosecutor expands probe to include Clinton Foundation

"John Durham, the U.S. attorney appointed by Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, has reportedly expanded the scope of his investigation to look into past allegations of wrongdoing by the Clinton Foundation.

The New York Times reports that Durham “has sought documents and interviews about how federal law enforcement officials handled an investigation around the same time into allegations of political corruption at the Clinton Foundation.”

The Times’ sources say that branching out to include a review of the Clinton Foundation investigation is “highly unusual,” and has led some prosecutors who worked on the case to refuse to meet with Durham’s team.

“Though the suspected crimes themselves are not comparable — one involves a possible conspiracy between a presidential campaign and a foreign adversary to interfere in an election, and the other involves potential bribery and corruption — and largely included different teams of investigators and prosecutors, Mr. Durham’s efforts suggest the scope of his review is broader than previously known,” the Times reports."

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/highly-unusual-bill-barrs-russiagate-prosecutor-expands-probe-to-include-clinton-foundation/

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'Highly unusual': Bill Barr's Russiagate prosecutor expands probe to include Clinton Foundation (Original Post) still_one Sep 2020 OP
So they haven't been able to find anything on Biden. Boogiemack Sep 2020 #1
+++ still_one Sep 2020 #2
Next stop for the billybarr train - Benghazi?? NoMoreRepugs Sep 2020 #3
Oh, FUCK them and their fishing expedition. MotorCityBeard Sep 2020 #7
FFS... this is infuriating. Zoonart Sep 2020 #4
Suggests to me that they found too little on the Russiagate nonsense karynnj Sep 2020 #5
I wonder if Barr has any flights booked for the evening of January 20 of next year DFW Sep 2020 #6
Theyve gone fishing Fullduplexxx Sep 2020 #8
What's next? Investigating Eleanor Roosevelt? obamanut2012 Sep 2020 #9
That and FDR's dog fala still_one Sep 2020 #11
Communists in the State Department! Truman firing McArthur! Yalta! hatrack Sep 2020 #13
Didn't know Hillary was running again Roland99 Sep 2020 #10
Who is paying for this nonsense and where is the oversight? C_U_L8R Sep 2020 #12
Here is what they are doing: ScratchCat Sep 2020 #14
Judge's ruling ends troubled foundation's saga struggle4progress Sep 2020 #15
Don't forget Whitewater dalton99a Sep 2020 #16
 

Boogiemack

(1,406 posts)
1. So they haven't been able to find anything on Biden.
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 08:28 AM
Sep 2020

They won't find anything here either. Just the mention of it, tho, gives Trump's base goode bumps.

BTW, I checked Charity Navigator and the Clinton Foundation had an A- rating.

MotorCityBeard

(201 posts)
7. Oh, FUCK them and their fishing expedition.
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 08:35 AM
Sep 2020

Why stop at Benghazi? Let's roll out ALL the hits; White Water, Travelgate, etc...

Zoonart

(11,833 posts)
4. FFS... this is infuriating.
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 08:29 AM
Sep 2020

Our tax dollars are going for this and we still have hospitals and citizens digging quarters out of their couches to buy PPE.

Let's make this shit stop. VOTE like your life depends on it.

(I know... preaching to the choir.)

karynnj

(59,498 posts)
5. Suggests to me that they found too little on the Russiagate nonsense
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 08:31 AM
Sep 2020

Had they found even a glimmer of a bombshell, possibly by distorting something, they would have finished up to get that out.

DFW

(54,300 posts)
6. I wonder if Barr has any flights booked for the evening of January 20 of next year
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 08:31 AM
Sep 2020

Say, a one way trip to Grand Cayman, Brazil, or the United Arab Emirates? Dick Cheney's company's HQ is now in Dubai, and Cheney still has--last I heard--his house (since 2008, now in Halliburton's name, and no longer his own name) on the island of Kish, the Iranian version of Hong Kong).

Somewhere without an extradition treaty, in any case.

hatrack

(59,578 posts)
13. Communists in the State Department! Truman firing McArthur! Yalta!
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 09:55 AM
Sep 2020

The Crash of 1907!!

The capture of Fort Washington!!

Ben Franklin-ghazi!!

Beringia-gate!!

ScratchCat

(1,977 posts)
14. Here is what they are doing:
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 10:55 AM
Sep 2020

They are going to try to use the "results" of the supposed investigation into The Clinton Foundation(there was never actual confirmation that any such investigation was real) to argue, "see, they didn't even try there, but spent years and millions investigating Trump" to try to spin it as completely political since they have nothing in the Biden or Russia Probe-Probe. It is smoke and mirrors nonsense. They are just "comparing the veracity" of the two investigations to "prove" politics explain the different outcomes.

struggle4progress

(118,234 posts)
15. Judge's ruling ends troubled foundation's saga
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 11:10 AM
Sep 2020

Judge's ruling ends troubled foundation's saga
Nov 8, 2019

WASHINGTON – A New York judge’s ruling that President Donald Trump must pay $2 million to charity appears to be the final chapter in the saga of Trump’s troubled charitable foundation.

State Supreme Court Justice Saliann Scarpulla of Manhattan ruled on Thursday that Trump pay $2 million in damages to various nonprofit groups to settle allegations that he and his family used the Trump Foundation to further his political and business interests ...

The Attorney General's Office and the Trump Foundation reached an agreement last year to dissolve the foundation and distribute its remaining $1.8 million in assets to a variety of charities, including the Army Relief Fund and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum ...

In this week's ruling, Scarpulla wrote "that Mr. Trump breached his fiduciary duty" with statutory violations ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/08/trump-foundation-saga-troubled-charity-ends-2-million-judgment/2532798001/

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