Nothing to see here.
That’s what at least two top Republicans are saying amid news that Attorney General Bill Barr has been looking around the world to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Well, color me shocked and surprised by this.
“Are they worried he’s getting close to the answers?”
He already HAS all the answers; just not the one’s he wants.
If it’s possible for a nation to have a stroke, and be told it’s never going to normally walk, talk or have full use of it’s faculties ever again, I think that’s what’s happened to us.
“…Attorney General Bill Barr has been looking around the world to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.”
Wow. Bill Barr & Robert Mueller really are best friends !
Graham is close to joining the coterie of folks that will get prosecuted for this nonsense.
Maybe he just doesn’t care.
But it is not OK for the House to request information from our own government as part of its constitutional oversight function–OK, I get it.
Indeed. It’s Barr’s job to be flying around the world chasing down conspiracy theories in the same way it’s the president’s job to be evaluating paint chips to determine the exact shade of black to paint the wall. I don’t see how anyone could have a problem with either of those things.
Just STFU Lindz.
Are they worried Barr is getting close to answers?
Barr already has the ‘answers’ he wants - he’s just looking for any ‘evidence’ he can get others to manufacture in support of his pre-determined ‘answers’.
Look! There’s some nonsense here! Cue Liz Cheney.
Seriously, I’m suitably cynical and snarky and all, but still, I wonder occasionally how these people can sleep at night, and how they can look at themselves in the mirror each morning.
Be still my heart.
So I was thinking about this just the tiniest bit more since it was announced that Barr was “introducing” the ostensible real investigator to everyone. Government leaders have been sending emissaries to other government leaders for literally thousands of years, with letters of introduction to authenticate them and outline their missions. (I have somewhere my grandfather’s diplomatic passport, which is basically a fancy letter from the secretary of state saying “Please do right by this guy”.) The only reason for Barr to be doing this “introduction” face to face is to say things that will not be recorded by the US or by countries other than the one’s he’s strongarming. I’ts no surprise that only the worst republican liars were willing to peddle this line.
So why did Mueller charge 13 Russians and 3 Russian entities? This defense of Barr is absurd.
Liz Cheney and Lindsey Graham??? JFC!!!
They have to try to discredit the Mueller probe before the redacted version gets out and leaves trump more vulnerable to prosecution than ever.
Somebody at Slate said, before the election in 2016, that if somebody shook Newt Gingrich awake and said Trump had just proposed nationalizing the banks, he’d murmur to tell the press how great it was we had someone running who was capable of such bold, innovative thinking, and then he’d go back to sleep. This is like that. I think it literally doesn’t matter what you told them. It’s fine unless it’s, you know, appalling, so if you said Trump was just charged with rape and aggravated assault on an Epstein victim in 1993 they’d say well if it proved to be true it would be deeply troubling. And they’d go back to sleep too.
Republicans have a vested interest in encouraging Russian crimes in our elections.