At his January 2019 confirmation hearing, Bill Barr vowed to let to special counsel Robert Mueller “complete” his work. But in retrospect, Barr’s promise was dangerously limited. It turned out that it didn’t foreclose him from meddling in the cases that Mueller passed back to the Justice Department after the special counsel stepped down.
At this point it’s hard to believe anything coming out of the GOP and the DOJ. Of course assuming the Dems take the white house in November, there will be howls about getting rid of all of the GOP partisans who have been put in place, and it will likely be impossible to root out all of the dreck put into the federal judiciary. IF Bill Barr is not prosecuted, that would be criminal.
Jeff Sessions — who had recused himself from overseeing Mueller, given his involvement in some of the conduct Mueller was investigating — was canned the day after the 2018 election. Within a few weeks, Trump named Barr as Sessions’ permanent replacement
Actually it was a few months, we did have that Whitacre fellow in the meantime.
It is not hyperbolic to assert four more years of Trump may very well turn this country into a pale shadow of its former self. An ominous, foreboding shadow at that. It’s going to take an entire generation to fix the damage as it is. Your grandchildren will be cleaning this up.
One thing might neuter a second Trump term, and that would be for Democrats to hold both houses of Congress. Taking back the Senate is a must.
The continuing perversion of justice and basic governmental norms just gets overwhelming. Prosecuting these bastards for all that they’ve done will, however, keep the divisive political climate alive and well and fulminating. Narrowing in on a select group of prosecutions that will assure a lengthy prison sentence and involve heavy fines is the way to go. The daily beat beat beat of injustice is upsetting and infuriating to the core, but I worry that if each malevolent and illegal act is revisited to be prosecuted, we will fall under the weight of reliving every rotten day of the past 3 plus years.
Barr’s actions around the Mueller investigation and specifically his unprecedented Uber-partisan withdrawal of charges against Flynn are among the subjects that should get full treatment under the law. I’d put abuse of immigrants and the statutory scheme for asylum in the same basket. And last but not least, the actions of Trump and Co, to enrich themselves at taxpayer expense as well as through corruption involving companies and countries. I know there are more, and on another day I might cite different examples, but we need to start thinking together about where the search for accountability should be targeted or risk that nothing will get done
The present day Republican party wants to rewrite history; however, too much is known for history to write anything but that they were traitors to our Democratic Republic and to its Constitution.
Sort of good news, bad news, good that it will be known, bad that will be what’s written.
Trump does not want to go down in history being impeached.
It appears he has released his people to make his impeachment go away by killing the Mueller report.
This and anything else they can discredit will we used to make Trump’s impeachment unlawful.
It baffles me to no end that people are surprised by disBarr’s dangerous, despicable actions. His prior claim to fame was successfully burying the mountains of evidence of Poppy Bush and his cadre of curs’ involvement in the Iran-Contra “affair.” And now they’re shocked — SHOCKED! — to witness his repeat performance?
In essence disBarr is a one-trick pony. He may look pretty at the equine show but you still inevitably end up with a barn full of shit.
Well, Barr may not be losing any sleep over it, but I bet a lot of career prosecutors at DOJ sure are. (They would be the same ones resigning from cases, and from the Department itself in certain instances.)
Personally, assuming Democrats win, I’m willing to let the legal experts figure out what and who there is to convict. I suggest Kamala Harris or Adam Schiff. I just want the understanding that prosecution is WANTED and warranted for as much as legally (and fairly) possible. There needs to be major consequences for their lawfulness.
There is now additional evidence of Putin’s influence over Trump that Mueller didn’t have.
It’s called coronavirus.
Trump behaved EXACTLY as if he were under control by Russian intelligence, doing maximum damage to the country, maximum loss of life, hollowing out government by firing scientists and inspectors general, and even using a crisis that was largely created by himself to stir up criminal extremist elements to overthrow state governments that weren’t giving him sufficiently groveling praise. In Whitmer’s case, she was a potential candidate on a rival ticket that could depose him in the fall, so she had to be attacked with particular viciousness.
Along with the massive and irrefutable evidence we’ve seen over the last four years, including much of it on live TV before millions (“Russia, if you’re listening! . . .”), the coronavirus atrocity simply reinforces the only conclusion that facts and his own behavior make evident.