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Barr claims Trump's tweets make it impossible for him to do his job
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He's getting resigned in 1 month,writing a book and hosting a Fox News show.
It's hard for me to view this as anything more than theater. It would be great if Barr was finally pushed to his breaking point and resigned, but I doubt that would ever happen. This just feels like he is putting on a show to try and prove he isn't working with/for Trump.
Yes, using all the powerful tools with enforceable legal teeth it turns out they have at their disposal.
As further proof that this is bullshit, CNN has a story up from the New York Times that Barr prosecutors are "hunting for a basis to accuse " Intel officials of tampering with evidence that points to Russian interferance with the 2016 election.
Yeah, I totally believe Barr is just trying to do his job. /s
Yeah, I totally believe Barr is just trying to do his job. /s
It's a good strategy so far, if you're a moron.
Trump: Backstabs/fires crony.
Crony: Reveals/confirms Trump's corruption.
Trump cult: He's just a mad loser cause he got fired!
It absolutely is dumb theatrics.
It's going through the same motions that happened when Donald's Ukraine fuckery was first publicly revealed and Barr had his PR team do a mini faux outrage press tour.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt
Lou Dobbs, Wednesday: "Bill Barr is doing the Lord's work as well as that of this great republic."
Lou Dobbs, Thursday: "I am so disappointed in Bill Barr."
7:47 PM - Feb 13, 2020
Josh Jordan @NumbersMuncher
This is all theater today.
Trump put Barr in a corner and this is their PR move to make Barr look like he's not taking orders directly from Trump. https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1228118480819490816 …
8:12 PM - Feb 13, 2020
Lou Dobbs, Wednesday: "Bill Barr is doing the Lord's work as well as that of this great republic."
Lou Dobbs, Thursday: "I am so disappointed in Bill Barr."
7:47 PM - Feb 13, 2020
Josh Jordan @NumbersMuncher
This is all theater today.
Trump put Barr in a corner and this is their PR move to make Barr look like he's not taking orders directly from Trump. https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1228118480819490816 …
8:12 PM - Feb 13, 2020
It's going through the same motions that happened when Donald's Ukraine fuckery was first publicly revealed and Barr had his PR team do a mini faux outrage press tour.
Attorney General Bill Barr reportedly "surprised and angry" at Trump-Ukraine phone call
A leak to the AP suggests Barr may be looking to distance himself from Rudy Giuliani and the Ukraine scandal.
Trump blurs lines between personal lawyer, attorney general
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Washington plunges into impeachment, Attorney General William Barr finds himself engulfed in the political firestorm, facing questions about his role in President Donald Trump's outreach to Ukraine and the administration's attempts to keep a whistleblower complaint from Congress
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When Barr did learn of that call a few weeks later, he was "surprised and angry" to discover he had been lumped in with Giuliani, a person familiar with Barr's thinking told The Associated Press. This person was not authorized to speak about the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
This is a ridiculous charade. Barr is taking orders from Trump directly, not from tweets. They are both utterly corrupt. Trump tweeting the corruption out openly is just him being his usual dumbass self; yet it also won't matter because he is totally unaccountable and immune to consequences because of the broken system.
As smart as "dumb theatrics" would be I 100% don't think Trump would go along with ANYTHING that paints him in a bad light theatrics or otherwise so I'm thinking this is authentic. Barr is being earnest in Trump making it harder to do his job and his job is doing the President's dirty work. It's that simple.
I mean why would barr be worried about getting canned? He is probably one of the last people trump wants to piss off right now.
Trump has done theatrical firings that got him in trouble before
True, but i feel like barr is more than just another high ranking staff (lol), like barr theoretically knows everything and probably has the receipts
I mean still though occum razor, they're all just morons
Please understand that this is all theater. He's trying to make it seem as if he's pushing back against Trump, to appease people.
Political theatre nothing more. Behind the scenes he's still trying to go after Trumps enemies while pretending to be pushing back because it's an election year.
Well if my boss tweeted like that everyday, yea it would make my job difficult.
Now ask me if I feel bad for Barr..... I would have more sympathy for someone who just got a DUI than Barr, and I really hate people who drink and drive.
Now ask me if I feel bad for Barr..... I would have more sympathy for someone who just got a DUI than Barr, and I really hate people who drink and drive.
My greatest hope is that Trump gets cornered by his own idiotic instincts into destroying his actual superpower. If Barr is somehow removed then the house of cards loses the entire bottom row.
but Occam's razor says lol no Stinkles this is a work and a shoot
here's a crazier fantasy-
What if Barr freelanced this from his application to now and never coordinated - to keep his hands clean?
and now he flew to close to the sun.
"To have public statements and tweets made about the department, about people in the department, our men and women here, about cases pending in the department and about judges before whom we have cases, make it impossible for me to do my job," Barr said, "and to assure the courts and the prosecutors in the department that we're doing our work with integrity."
"We totally would've had integrity, but Trump tweeted and so that's why we have none ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "
Sure Jan.
Even if Barr came to disappear tomorrow Trump would have him replaced by another yes man just as corrupt as Barr was if not more...if that's possible.
I'll share a cell with you, but nah... He's all in. Maybe some deflection... but this guy is all in for what he can get away with.
Trump (via Twitter): Lower the sentence!
DoJ: Yessir!
Barr: "The fact that the tweets are out there and correspond to things we're doing at the department sort of give grist to the mill"
DoJ: Yessir!
Barr: "The fact that the tweets are out there and correspond to things we're doing at the department sort of give grist to the mill"
I imagine that even Trump knows that Barr is pretty much the best crony he's ever going to get at the DOJ. Any replacement would be put under extremely heavy public pressure during the confirmation hearing to rescind stuff like that "only do investigations into people running for election/reelection if I personally approve of them"-rule he introduced.
Lou is plenty clued in. He's just playing his perceived puppet role - to portray Barr as acting independent of the President, which, like anyone else who has an independent thought that isn't licking Trump's anus, must mean he is part of "the deep state".
This is all just theatre.
Charlie Savage on Twitter
“SCOOP: Barr installed a team of outside prosecutors, including from St. Louis, to go into the office of the US attorney for DC & review the work of line attorneys handling political sensitive cases -- including vs Michael Flynn @adamgoldmanNYT @mattapuzzo https://t.co/us2yeBstxh”
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If Democrats truly wanted Barr out all they would need to do is start a rumor and "leak" it to the media that anonymous sources reported that Barr was talking shit about Trump behind closed doors
Barr would get kicked out in less than a week.
Barr would get kicked out in less than a week.