In the early days of the unfolding Ukraine scandal, before the White House released its version of President Trump’s infamous call with the president of Ukraine, Attorney General Bill Barr privately urged Trump to allow for its release, The New York Times reported.
They both belong behind bars
Barr: “Oopsie, Praps I shoulda “read the transcript”.”
Yesterday I was thinking Trump needs Barr too much to underbus him. Today I’m thinking wait, the stupidest thing you could do is pretty much a summary of his daily schedule. So who knows?
Trump should reclassify the transcript, and start arresting anyone who keeps a copy.
Then declare that the impeachment inquiry is invalid, as the core piece of evidence is now classified and DOJ will not allow Congress to have it…
This is a non story. Barr is, behind the scenes, trashing the original Russia investigation (and, by implication, Ukraine) with his phony quest to get dirt on the FBI/DOJ initiation of the entire review.
This story from the New York Times and a few other sources is cover. Don’t buy it. Barr is in this corrupt cover up to his fat neck.
Barr’s the closest thing to competent that crowd has. And that’s sayin’ something. I would have thought Barr would have read the transcript (it was just a few pages) before saying it was OK to release because there’s a clear ask for a political favor in return for the Javalin missiles. And that is illegal.
Get in line, Bill. A bus will be along shortly.
Does he ever take responsibility for anything?
According to the Times, Trump is now aggravated with Barr for pressuring him to release the transcript.
Trump is upset because a transcript of a perfect call is released, reflecting no evidence of criminal or unethical behavior.
Seems legit.
Can we PLEASE call it what it is? A MEMO about the TRANSCRIPT that is in no way a complete transcript of the call. Barr and Trump are playing a ‘game’. READ THE TRANSCRIPT! knowing that it’s not really out there.
No
Too late; too late!
They now stink just like each other.
Connected at the hip and, perhaps someday, at the leg chains, too.
Imagine if Trump started treating Bill Barr the way he treated Jeff Sessions. Trump gets off on humiliating people, especially those close to him. If Trump ever starts to think Barr might not be “loyal enough” then it’s possible will start to see Trump go after him publicly in a big way. That could bring an end to Barr’s protection of Trump and hasten the end of Trump’s Presidency.
What a lovely thought.
Certainly a lot to what you say, I’d also posit, though, that both parts aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive.
Trump’s never been rational, so him underbussing co-conspirators while they’re working to help him may not be logical, but it’s perfectly Trumpian.
I can see his father, behind closed doors, rolling his eyes in exasperation every time Donnie effed up some business transaction, got called on it, and went about blaming everyone in the building all the way down to the doorman.
According to Anonymous, Barr didn’t explain using big stick-figure pictures and one-syllabel words and thus the misunderstanding. It happens.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Billy Boy hadn’t read the thing before he pushed his buddy to go public with it. Christ, a 12-year-old could see what happened.
53 Senators claim they see nothing out of order.
OK, maybe 51 or 52.
I’m just waiting for Joe Manchin’s opinion …