House Judiciary Chairman calls on the Attorney General to Recuse Himself

[crazytown]

Source: CNN

In a tweet, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler called on Attorney General Bill Barr to recuse himself “until we get to the bottom of this matter.”

(((Rep. Nadler)))
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The President dragged the Attorney General into this mess. At a minimum, AG Barr must recuse himself until we get to the bottom of this matter. #UkraineTranscript

The New York Times
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Breaking News: The White House released the transcript of President Trump’s call with the leader of Ukraine. The transcript shows Trump urged Ukraine’s leader to contact Attorney General William Barr about opening an inquiry tied to Joe Biden. https://nyti.ms/2lwo2rp


More context: In the transcript of the call, Trump told the Ukrainian president: "I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it."


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-impeachment-inquiry-09-25-2019/index.html

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Link to tweet

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Nadler is shrewd, and ouch that hits Barr hard

So many conflicts of interest because Trump has blended all the players together from inside and outside government and campaign and private life. It's a toxic stew.

[Perseus]

7. Barr is a crook, he will not recuse himself, he is up to his eyebrows on all this

He must be deeply compromised or is a nut case who actually believes on all the circus this administration has always been.

I wish I could understand it, a person who works hard to become a lawyer, a judge, a DOJ to then sell his soul to an idiot, what is in it for him? Is he involved in corruption with the creature? Is he hoping to make money from all this?

[onetexan]

11. question is if LowBarr doesn't recuse himself, which is most likely not, what the Judiciary can do

can they hold him in contempt? what actions can they take? Can they start investigating him as well?

[2naSalit]

28. He can be impeached?

Or he can be indicted, one or the other. No one is above the law.

[volstork]

12. Then let him go to prison.

I'm sure he'll make lots of .... friends..... there.

[Grins]

21. He wouldn't be the first!

That would be John Mitchell, who worked for another Republican criminal of a president, a president whose light might dim a bit as the most corrupt president we ever had, all thanks to Bill Barr’s current Republican boss.

[CrispyQ]

13. Rules are for losers.

The GOP has been playing the long game. Decades. They are this close to squashing representative government without actually changing the Constitution. They are not going to fold. Much as I think Moscow Mitch & many others are disgusted with & sick of the orange pustule in the WH, the GOP is almost within reach of their goal. They control the media. They control the voting machines. They have lied, cheated, stolen, & bought their way to power & they aren't giving it up over some stupid rules.

[steventh]

20. You may be right. Some research would suggest an insideous long game has had some success.

Nancy MacLean's book, "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America" and Jeff Sharlet's book, "The Family: the Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" describe a secret long game by a group of wealthy individuals plotting to grab power and take over the US government for their own agenda. They have had some success, as you point out.

Most troubling to me in the takeover attempt is the stacking of the judiciary with right wing candidates, Attorney William Barr and Supreme Court Justice Brett Cavanaugh being the worst of these threats to democracy.

In the best of all worlds, I would like to see the Democrats win the presidency and the US Senate in 2020, then proceed with criminal charges, i.e., for perjury, against those two individuals.

[Farmer-Rick]

2. And... the VP also is involved and should

Recuse himself from the impeachment trial in the Senate.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. And while we're at it, sworn testimony to Congress might be helpful

Link to tweet

[Sogo]

18. And now we know the definitive answer

to his non-answer....although we had a pretty good idea at the time. But now we have details.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. yeah, there was just something hesitant in his answer

he was mulling something over, in a 'should i mention it' kind of way. did we actually discuss it, or was it a hypothetical, was it a trial balloon .... he sorta wanted to say something, but he didn't

[pangaia]

5. What the Wh released is NOT a transcript.

It is a(fake) summary of what people 'remembered' about the call...

[SCVDem]

9. I learned yesterday

There might be three people taking dictation of a call. Then they compare notes and release a final summary.

No recording devices since Nixon.

[ancianita]

17. Aren't there comm or intel systems that pick up these conversations? AT&T or NSA, (per Snowen)?

As there are court subpoenas from corporate comm systems of conversation transcripts for everyone in the country, so there would be big data captures of these conversations, yes?

Some tech can or should be consulting them -- even Andrew Yang could probably know -- about how to get the original convo transcripts, yes?

What I'm trying to say is that I don't think Congress is necessarily stuck with what they're given.

[Pepsidog]

16. Exactly!! It's is not a verbatim transcript of the recording.

[moonseller66]

6. Yeah, like trump speaks like that?

Truthcon one now playing in D.C.

[ffr]

8. And by Barr, we mean Barr, not Mike Pence, as today's BS transcript substitutes.

We mean fat Darth Vadar.

[FakeNoose]

10. If only he would impeach himself

But we all know THAT'S not gonna happen!

[beachbumbob]

14. Actually democrats should announce impeachment inquiry into Barr, they

have ample evidence to pass articles of impeachment and let a McConnel defend him...time take the gloves off and act with courage.

[Duppers]

15. K & R

[SergeStorms]

22. Save yourself some time and embarrassment, Barr.

Resign immediately, and you might be able to salvage a shred of whatever dignity you have remaining. Being right next to Donald Trump on the shit-pile of history is nothing to be proud of.

[Optical.Catalyst]

23. Here we go; things are happing now.

After Congress forces AG Barr to recuse, we will get the appointment of a Special Council to investigate the Trump / Ukraine connection. Perhaps this time around, the SC will have Trump under oath before a Grand Jury.

We hold the evidence this time, and Trump is going to be charged.

[dchill]

24. That's like asking Jabba the Hutt to be nice.

[ck4829]

25. K&R

[Aussie105]

26. Recurse?

Is that a euphemism for 'go jump off a cliff'?

But if Jabba has any smarts at all, he will see the whirlpool that is about to drag Trump down into the bowels of Hell, and swim away as fast as he can so he doesn't go down as well.

[Linda Ed]

27. Barr should be disbarred!

It's now clear that AG Barr led a corrupt crusade behind the scenes to quash the whistleblower complaint against Trump. An impeachment inquiry is the best way for the House to get around Barr's blockade and hold Trump accountable.

William Barr Hit a New Low In His Crusade to Bury the Whistleblower Complaint
The Justice Department released a statement Wednesday claiming that neither Trump nor Giuliani have spoken with Barr about pressuring Ukraine to investigate Biden and his son. But there is ample evidence that Barr played a substantial role in protecting Trump from a whistleblower complaint over the call.

Important point -- Barr/DOJ advised the DNI not to share the whistleblower complaint, even as Barr/DOJ was named on the call at the heart of the whistleblower complaint.
So the Barr DoJ was suppressing a whistle blower complaint that apparently implicates Barr in Trump’s Ukraine scheme. The corruption is everywhere in this Administration.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/barr-trump-ukraine-doj-whistleblower-complaint.html

Schiff sent a letter to Barr Wednesday saying the DOJ’s involvement “raises the specter that the Department has participated in a dangerous cover-up to protect the President.”