Attorney General Bill Barr directed the Bureau of Prisons to reassign the warden of the federal prison at which billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein was reportedly left unmonitored long enough to die of an apparent suicide, a Justice Department spokesperson said Tuesday.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1242387
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Barr should just stay out of all this – but, of course, he will not.
(Assuming arguendo that he was not, in fact, the murderer!)
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The man is a crook.
It’s like Capone investigating Eliot Ness…or or or…
Barr Investigating the FBI.
OT If Barr pulls this off, the the corruption is worse than most realize
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Oh, so now they’re doing what the Catholic church did with pedophile priests, move them on to the next assignment. Surely they’ll do a better job there.
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Proving that Barr, had he cared to do so, had the authority and power to ensure that protocols were in place and followed in order to prevent Epstein from becoming dead and to remain not dead through his trial.
Or, vice versa.
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So was the warden reassigned to George Nader’s prison, or Manafort’s, or Cohen’s?
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Wherever his exceptional talents are deemed most needed.
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Bill Barr has covered up more sh*t than Grumpy Cat in his backyard, 20K-gallon, Beverly Hills litter box.
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Barr should recuse himself. He won’t but it should do so. The SDNY is one hope for the truth to come out. The other is the Congressional investigation. Anything Barr does should be viewed as suspicious.
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Other way around:
the warden of the Otisville, New York, federal prison, James Petrucci, will serve as acting warden of the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where Epstein was being held.
Otisville is Michael Cohen’s current address.
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If Barr had been really doing his job instead of micromanaging the release of the Mueller report, maybe this would not have happened. This guy is a little too corrupt for my tastes.
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So there’s an opening, then…
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People respond to symbols…Lab coat, uniform, medals.
A fucking business suit (even on a 350 pound slug like Barr) carries with it authority of the first order. Even if 100% of what he is saying and doing is based on lies.
OT That’s why the GOP was so anxious to get Trump (in a business suit) just to stand next to the Mexican President in 2016 (so as to “look presidential”).
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Bill Barr- Leading from Behind…
The house should have hearings and find out what Bill Barr was doing Saturday morning… As they did to Hillary in the Benghazi hearings.
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Barr announced on Monday that he directed an investigation into Epstein’s death, just a day after President Trump retweeted an unsubstantiated, far-right conspiracy theory that tied former President Bill Clinton to the accused sex trafficker’s death.
Coverup General Barr SHOULD and MUST recuse himself again after the unrecused himself from the Epstein case!
Coverup General Barr has ties that bind to Epstein because his father dubiously hired young Epstein to teach without college degree.
Let us not forget:
- Coverup Genereal Barr’s boss the Predator-In-Chief, was accused of raping an 13-year-old girl AND EPSTEIN was a co-defendant.
Note: Doe vs Trump was voluntarily dismissed WITHOUT prejudice because Jane Doe were receiving “numerous threats”.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4357335/doe-v-trump/
- Unsealed Epstein court documents revealed alleged teen victim was working as locker room attendant at Predator-in-Chief’s Mar-a-Lago resort was recruited to give Epstein massages that often involved sexual activity.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/09/epstein-mar-a-lago-trump-1456221
- Coverup General Barr is setting up someone to be blamed in MCC or BOP BUT not DOJ or himself…despite the fact that the buck stops with him as the head of DOJ!
Don’t worry Dear Leader, I’ll make sure to Mueller’d the Epstein case!
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When I saw Otisville, the first thing I thought about was the Mayberry jail’s most frequent customer.
And when I looked at this picture, I thought … put a pair of round glasses on Otis Campbell and take off the hat, and he looks a little like Bill Barr, who it would be nice to see behind bars.
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Oh I dunno … THAT bar is very high.
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