Discussion: Barr Calls Pelosi's Accusation That He Lied Under Oath 'Laughable'

pike_bishop · May 17, 2019, 1:08pm

left_in_washington_state · May 17, 2019, 1:12pm

For the win!

sandi · May 17, 2019, 1:29pm

He has built his career on craftily crafting his sentences so that he can claim it was not ‘technically’ a like. Indeed he does think it is funny. He thinks he is the smartest boy in the room.

p.s., all this crowd seems to be stuck in middle-school level gotcha humor.

ETA: by ‘this crowd’ I mean Barr et al.'s privileged, legal, social set.

tena · May 17, 2019, 1:24pm

But did he deny it? That’s an adorable nondenial denial.

stradivarius50t3 · May 17, 2019, 1:26pm

Color me stupid if you wish, but can I have a referent for the pronoun in your postscript? I’m not sure if this crowd is us here at TPM, or the Guarantors of Plutocracy.

sandi · May 17, 2019, 1:28pm

Barr, Kavanaugh, … the Republican legal in-crowd…

left_in_washington_state · May 17, 2019, 1:28pm

And middle-school bullying AND middle-school privileged white boy whining when things don’t got their way.

stradivarius50t3 · May 17, 2019, 1:29pm

I thought so. And then (I think because it was in a postscript) I wasn’t sure.

sandi · May 17, 2019, 1:31pm

Sorry, got a little too clever in my own crafting!

tena · May 17, 2019, 1:34pm

Yeah - all the activist legals who tell you endlessly how they hate activist legals.

dickweed · May 17, 2019, 1:39pm

Barr may have the technical skill to lie ( or like if you prefer, he he) so it isn’t flagrant, but Donald doesn’t and doesn’t seem to give a shit that they are so easy to see.

jumboperch · May 17, 2019, 1:44pm

Was maybe thinking hanged by their tongue ??

dwendt · May 17, 2019, 2:11pm

Talk me down!

epicurus · May 17, 2019, 2:11pm

I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that this “investigation of the investigators” will prove to be as productive as all of the Benghazi hearings combined. The brazen nature of their denials and distractions is quite impressive, but the truth will out. At least, I hope so…

tena · May 17, 2019, 2:19pm

O I agree. Seen that way this is actually fun.

Let them investigate. Who’s worried? I’m sure as hell not. hahahahaha Their track record is really terrible.

Benghazi the shit out of this, GOP, go right ahead.

gr · May 17, 2019, 2:38pm

“…will prove to be as productive as all of the Benghazi hearings combined…”

Plus, almost any FBI agent assigned to investigate will slow walk the assignment.
Then he/she will document the instructions given by Barr or his deputies.

dude13 · May 17, 2019, 2:51pm

the only way Barr could get fired is if he asked for a pillow for his knees

n_b · May 17, 2019, 2:52pm

I saw that, too. Typical gop non-denial denial. Nixonian, actually.

serendipitoussomnambulist · May 17, 2019, 3:17pm

I do hope that Speaker Pelosi gets the last laugh. I growing despondent since the “laughable” Mueller report fiasco.

gregor · May 17, 2019, 3:22pm

By his stupid argument Barr is not the member of the DOJ and Trump is not a member of the Trump administration.

Idiotic to the core