Originally published at: Barr’s ‘Highly Unusual’ Involvement in Roger Stone Sentencing Remains Murky - TPM – Talking Points Memo
A new DOJ Inspector General report on a bizarre 2020 episode in which the Trump DOJ retracted its sentencing recommendation for Trump impresario Roger Stone reveals in part how much senior officials from that era don’t want to discuss it. In February 2020, federal prosecutors asked a judge to sentence the longtime Trump ally to…
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The next 104 days will be the perfect time to air this laundry. Abuse of power has consequences. Let’s have hearings in the US Senate.
Let people know what they’re choosing between.
F. these grifters and cheaters. Give them the old Green Bay Sweep. Lock them up!
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“…senior officials from that era don’t want to discuss it.”
How about they discuss it under oath?
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So glad this era of corruption and obstruction is behind. Vote Harris so we no longer have to deal with it. Dreadful!
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Say it with me: We are not going back!
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Barr says, “How can I quietly do my liege’s bidding when he keeps tweeting about it?”
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It is frustrating to see crimes
allowed to go unprosecuted due to statutes of limitations. Not sure if this applies to Barr who appears to be slimy enough to keep himself free from investigation but, in general, these statutes seem to only help the bad guys. Just the fact that Michael Cohen was re-jailed because he was writing a book is an abuse of power. Was it criminal? I guess we’ll never find out.
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lol - these guys make the rules - when your boss’ boss calls you into tell you his “beliefs on an issue” and its taken as just a pleasant exchange of ideas and not direct influence, you know that fuckery is afoot.
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Should TIFBG be re-elected, this will be commonplace in the DOJ. Let’s not even discuss the kangaroo courts that will prosecute all those who even whispered a bad word against him. The list of targets is already being developed.
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Trump commuted Stone’s sentence before he spent a day in a federal penitentiary. He was supposed to do three years. He was pardoned in late December 2020 just before the end of Trump’s term. The entire episode stinks to high heaven.
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The Senate should have hearings on this, and the new Unitary Executive should be used to gather all clandestine communications between the principals.
In the end we all know that Barr was not acting “out of a belief that the underlying charges were not as serious as prosecutors believed,” but was simply doing his job as Consigliere of the Trump Mob. This is exactly what a second term would be like, except imagine Ken Paxton instead of Bill Barr.
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"After prosecutors filed a sentencing recommendation that went against Barr’s request in favor of what the sentencing guidelines dictated, Trump began to tweet…The next day, Barr held a meeting with senior leadership at which he expressed surprise and frustration. At one point, someone brought up Trump’s tweets, and “the air almost went out of the room.”
Gee, did Trump’s tweets influence Barr, or not? Thinking…thinking…
It looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and when its eggs hatch, little duckies come out. It’s a fucking duck.
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Bill Barr should be the poster child for corrupt, political AGs. His relationship to Dump is the same as Dump’s to Putler: he doesn’t need to be explicitly directed in order to sow chaos in ways that best benefit his master.
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Barr said that he thought the result dictated by the sentencing guidelines was “high, disproportionate,” and “inflated.”
My sources say that Barr then recommended Stone be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Senior Trump DOJ officials still don’t want to talk about why they changed Roger Stone’s sentencing recommendation at the last minute.
I think I can solve the mystery . . .
The answer lies in the same dark hole where all the Secret Service call records and communications from January 6 were dumped.
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Way off topic, but still hovering around the topic of corruption: lawsuits are being threatened here in WVa to hold the state’s Arts Secretary personally responsible for the nearly $400,000 cost of updating a historic mural in the state Capitol rotunda because he authorized including corrupt Governor/US Senate front runner Jim Justice’s dog in the mural. Yes…that dog that sat beside Justice on the podium at the GOP convention
And yes, anybody can file a lawsuit, much less threaten one (in this case, three) but still, the fracas is the 2nd thing that’s made me smile in recent days, right after Harris’ ascension
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Barr goes too.
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they suddenly can’t recall.
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Won’t happen in this Congress. Not sure if it’ll happen in the next one either.
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Doesn’t matter. The Supreme Court has ruled that corruption in the justice department is a feature, not a bug.
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