Discussion: Chris Wallace Figures Trump Is Pumped He Now Has AG Protecting His 'Interests'

[emiliano4]

FIFY. The only thing which adequately explains his tears and emotional outburst at the hearing. Only a truly loved one makes you hurt that much.

I have always believed that Lindsey Graham is unbalanced, mentally…even during the Obama years and before.

Seriously.

[ozziecat]

Not saying that Barr isn’t right in everything he says. But he clearly is protecting this President.

Indeed and we’re not a little obsequious aren’t we?

Baby steps. Next time maybe he leaves out the ‘Not saying…’ phrase. That leaves a pretty potent statement for Foxers to contemplate.

[picklenoses]

And did Wallace also say that the job of the AG is not to protect the President’s interests?

[ralph_vonholst]

He could give one that impression. He was always a high strung little feller, given to bouts of bad overacting, but aside from being John McCain’s sidekick, he was an ignominious little palmetto rat.

There’s a definite possibility of some Kompromat there. Russian money, Russian poolboys, money and pool boys.

[ralph_vonholst]

Wallace reminds me of George McFly before Marty changed the timeline in BTTF 1.

[irasdad]

I have always believed that Lindsey Graham is unbalanced, mentally.

If Graham hadn’t gone into politics, I think he’d be belting out show tunes at the Myrtle Beach Dinner Theater.

Three nights per week.

(Plus two matinees on weekends.)

Either that, or managing the portrait studio at Sears.

[rfscalf]

There are some revelations now coming out about Trump which make Barr’s actions look more and more like, well, OBSTRUCTION.

And this will be prosecuted by??
The DOJ?
The Senate?

[coimmigrant]

Silly me. I thought that the Attorney General was supposed to be our nations top enforcement official,

Barr subscribes to the unitary executive theory that grants the president the power to control the entire executive branch. The DoJ is under the executive branch, therefor Trump has complete control over it and the AG becomes nothing more than an emasculated servant who carries out the dictates of the president. Put simply, under Barr’s theory of constitutional governance he is the president’s attorney.

[ralph_vonholst]

I think he’d be belting out show tunes at the Myrtle Beach Dinner Theater.

As an Ethel Merman impersonator.

Things look swell, things look great…

[carolson]

You are a master of metaphor!

[majesticunicorn]

He would be forced to recuse from an investigating into him or announce a change to DOJ policy that would certainly be clear grounds for impeachment of the AG. There is a constitutional question about the ability of the president to be prosecuted as the prosecutorial power flows from the constitution through the person of the president and into the appointees. But the power can skip right over the AG to the next appointee should it need to.

[rfscalf]

He would be forced to recuse from an investigating into him or announce a change to DOJ policy that would certainly be clear grounds for impeachment of the AG.

Again,
‘forced to recuse’ by whom? Who does the forcing?
…
“impeachment of the AG” the trial from which would be conducted in the Senate, right?

They’re like hackers who have disabled the defenses of an operating system.

[loss_mentality]

Though Wallace occasionally pokes his head above the fetid waters of the conservative fever swamp so as to speak a few sentences that accord with reality, the following quote assures us that his feet are still firmly planted in the muck at the bottom of the bog:

Not saying that Barr isn’t right in everything he says.

[rollinnolan]

You don’t debase yourself to this level without either blackmail or a massive payoff.

You could be right but it could be as simple as Barr is a true RW believer. He seems well versed in RW lingo and he has the sneer down pat.

[pike_bishop]

[left_in_washington_state]

whether “government officials abused their power and put their thumb on the scale” in their investigation of the President’s 2016 campaign.

How exactly did the FBI abuse its power or put its thumb on the scale in 2016 when neither the existence of the investigation nor any of its findings was disclosed to the public before the election?

As we all know…the only thumbing down by the FBI was the “revelations” about Hillary…

[lastroth]

Yeah, Trump and Barr are like Nixon and John Mitchell. That turned out well

Some remakes just shouldn’t be.

[left_in_washington_state]

Though Wallace occasionally pokes his head above the fetid waters of the conservative fever swamp so as to speak a few sentences that accord with reality, the following quote assures us that his feet are still firmly planted in the muck at the bottom of the bog:

Not saying that Barr isn’t right in everything he says.

EXACTLY…I was reading the article thinking…hmmm…then hit that quote and realized this was not some vaguely courageous stand by Wallace. Not that I really thought it would be, but I do have a tiny hope that Wallace or Smith will finally throw in the fox towel live on the air and give it what for…

[lastroth]

Indeed and we’re not a little obsequious aren’t we?

Must have gotten a little note that Chris is straying to far off the reservation, lately.

[lastroth]

You don’t debase yourself to this level without either blackmail or a massive payoff.

Well there’s ego. “How far can I help push this pile of shit.”