All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

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Barr started witch hunts on Democrats?

Barr didn't respond definitively when Sen. Kamala Harris, a California Democrat who is running for president, asked him whether the White House has asked him to initiate any new investigations.

One of the findings of Mueller's office was that Trump leaned on then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to open investigations on political opponents.

Barr ultimately didn't deny that he had discussed some things with White House officials but said he hadn't been asked to open any investigation.

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Barr started witch hunts on Democrats?

Barr didn't respond definitively when Sen. Kamala Harris, a California Democrat who is running for president, asked him whether the White House has asked him to initiate any new investigations.

One of the findings of Mueller's office was that Trump leaned on then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to open investigations on political opponents.

Barr ultimately didn't deny that he had discussed some things with White House officials but said he hadn't been asked to open any investigation.
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/01/71914467 ... estigation

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Trump hired one man who can stand up to Congress. Fuck you, Congress!

In his defiance, Barr proved himself to be exactly the protective bulwark for which Trump pined but never had in characters like former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former FBI chief James Comey.
"We have to stop using the criminal justice process as a political weapon," Barr told the Senate Judiciary Committee, even as he was accused of misrepresenting special counsel Robert Mueller's report to save Trump's presidency.
CNN

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This fragile weakling is who Trump supporters think is a strong man?!

TWEET TIRADE AFTER FIREFIGHTERS ENDORSE BIDEN
“I’ve done more for Firefighters than this dues sucking union will ever do,” Trump raged like a lover scorned, “and I get paid ZERO!”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05 ... 1TbDepjtf4

This enfeebled puke-stain is who I saw on the Alt-Right memes riding a tank and wearing the American flag like a cape with flames behind him?

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Trump pick for Fed a perfect match to Trump team: another asshole!

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Hey fundamentalists! Who is your man?

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Trump withdraws asshole: Trump Says Stephen Moore No Longer Being Considered For Fed Post

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Reagan's daughter is disgusted by Trump and the GOP.

You have claimed his legacy, exalted him as an icon of conservatism and used the quotes of his that serve your purpose at any given moment. Yet at this moment in America’s history when the democracy to which my father pledged himself and the Constitution that he swore to uphold, and did faithfully uphold, are being degraded and chipped away at by a sneering, irreverent man who traffics in bullying and dishonesty, you stay silent.

You stay silent when President Trump speaks of immigrants as if they are trash, rips children from the arms of their parents and puts them in cages. Perhaps you’ve forgotten that my father said America was home “for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness.”

You stayed silent when this president fawned over Kim Jong Un and took Vladimir Putin’s word over America’s security experts. You stood mutely by when one of his spokesmen, Rudolph W. Giuliani, said there is nothing wrong with getting information from Russians. And now you do not act when Trump openly defies legitimate requests from Congress, showing his utter contempt for one of the branches of our government.

Most egregiously, you remained silent when Trump said there were “very fine people” among the neo-Nazis who marched through an American city with tiki torches, chanting, “Jews will not replace us.”

Those of us who are not Republicans still have a right to expect you to act in a principled, moral and, yes, even noble way. Our democracy is in trouble, and everyone who has been elected to office has an obligation to save it. Maybe you’re frightened of Trump — that idea has been floated. I don’t quite understand what’s frightening about an overgrown child who resorts to name-calling, but if that is the case, then my response is: You are grown men and women. Get over it.

My father called America “the shining city on a hill.” Trump sees America as another of his possessions that he can slap his name on. A president is not supposed to own America. He or she is supposed to serve the American people.

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Trump has been wounding our democracy for the past two years. If he is reelected for another term, it’s almost a given that America will not survive — at least not as the country the Founding Fathers envisioned, and not as the idealistic experiment they built using a Constitution designed to protect democracy and withstand tyranny.

My father knew we were fragile. He said: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same.”

So, to the Republican Party that holds tightly to my father’s legacy — if you are going to stand silent as America is dismantled and dismembered, as democracy is thrown onto the ash heap of yesterday, shame on you. But don’t use my father’s name on the way down.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... story.html

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But the economy...!

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The Catastrophic Performance of Bill Barr
The attorney general misled the public in seven key ways.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... ic/588574/

I was willing to give Bill Barr a chance. Consider me burned.

When Barr was nominated, I wrote a cautious piece for this magazine declining to give him “a character reference” and acknowledging “legitimate reasons to be concerned about [his] nomination,” but nonetheless concluding that “I suspect that he is likely as good as we’re going to get. And he might well be good enough. Because most of all, what the department needs right now is honest leadership that will insulate it from the predations of the president.”

When he wrote his first letter to Congress announcing the principal conclusions of the Mueller report, I wrote another piece saying, “For the next two weeks, let’s give Attorney General William Barr the benefit of the doubt” on the question of releasing the report in a timely and not-too-redacted fashion.

I took a lot of criticism for these pieces—particularly the second one, in which I specifically said we should evaluate Barr’s actual performance in regard to releasing the Mueller report, and thus wait for him to act, rather than denouncing him preemptively.

Barr has now acted, and we can now evaluate his actual, rather than his hypothesized, performance.

It has been catastrophic. Not in my memory has a sitting attorney general more diminished the credibility of his department on any subject. It is a kind of trope of political opposition in every administration that the attorney general—whoever he or she is—is politicizing the Justice Department and acting as a defense lawyer for the president. In this case it is true.

Barr has consistently sought to spin his department’s work in a highly political fashion, and he has done so to cast the president’s conduct in the most favorable possible light. Trump serially complained that Jeff Sessions didn’t act to “protect” him. Matthew Whitaker never had the stature or internal clout to do so effectively. In Barr, Trump has found his man.

continued: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... ic/588574/

[Brian Peacock]

Seabass, Seabass, Seabass. You just don't get it. The law exists to serve the government not the people. Laws exist to allow governments to maintain order and consequently justice is whatever the government decide it is. Therefore it is only right for the government's chief legal officer to define the extent and scope of the law and how it applies, or not, to the government. A 'one law for all' approach does not take account of the particulars or the context in which laws are made or how governments have to act. Therefore Barr is completely correct when he says the the President could not commit an obstruction of justice because he had no intent to do so. Trump was just a bit cross about things thas'all, and who among us hasn't been a bit cross about something before - there's nothing illegal about that.