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ffr

(22,669 posts)
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 12:47 PM Oct 2019

This! All Americans need to understand that the AGoTUS is a dangerous rogue actor

All Americans need to understand that the Attorney General of the United States is a dangerous rogue actor seeking to undermine rather than uphold U.S. rule of law

Bill Barr is working day and night to absolve America's enemies of responsibility for their attacks on our homeland - Seth Abramson



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dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
1. Terrifying tweets, last night from many reliable Twitter
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 01:02 PM
Oct 2019

accounts. All warning of the destruction of our democracy.

The_jackalope

(1,660 posts)
4. I'm far more afraid of Barr than Trump at this point.
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 01:09 PM
Oct 2019

Bar is not dysfunctionally insane, like Trump.

With him as AG we're heading straight for a black hole.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
7. Me three. We've got to take Barr down before impeaching tRUMP. Play it like an organized
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 01:46 PM
Oct 2019

crime prosecution since that's what it is.

TruthAlwaysWins

(32 posts)
9. Me four, but I've got a question for DU folks:
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 02:54 PM
Oct 2019

How do we take Barr down? Who has the power to do it, and what would the process be?

patphil

(6,172 posts)
8. Given the long, bi-partisan Senate investigation regarding the matter of Russian interference,
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 02:50 PM
Oct 2019

which concluded that the Russians indeed meddled in the 2016 election, I don't think the Barr "investigation" has any chance of being anything more than a carefully orchestrated plot to discredit the Mueller Report and the Impeachment inquiry.
It is essentially a case of the Attorney General of the United States engaging in obstruction of justice, at the direction of the President.
Just like Bengazi, it won't go anywhere because it has no where to go.
There will be a lot of noise, mostly from Trump, certain Congressional and FOX news presidential cheerleaders,and, of course, Trump's base.
William Barr is digging a deep hole for himself; one that will end up being impossible for him to climb out of.

In the long run, this will hurt Trump more than it helps him.
I think it's an act of desperation.

Patrick Phillips

wiggs

(7,812 posts)
11. We are just beginning to see what it looks like when a corrupt president turns the wheels of
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 02:55 PM
Oct 2019

government to his own purposes and benefit. This is happening.

Texin

(2,596 posts)
12. I think this is a very dangerous and slippery slope we're on.
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 03:10 PM
Oct 2019

As ominous and authoritarian a move this is on Barr's part, my take is that secretly Barr doesn't really hold out much hope that he'll really find anything and he's going through the motions simply to placate tRump who is unwinding like a too-tight watch spring right now. You've got to imagine how explosive tRump's behavior is and I'm sure Barr probably gets a dozen frantic cell calls from Shitler on a daily basis. Hell, I'd go on a foreign excursion myself on a snipe hunt just to escape Shitler's beck and call. I've got to wonder how many 3 a.m. phone calls from this unraveling sicko he's had to take in the past five months or so. I appreciate the fact that Barr is a wingnut ideologue beholden to Opus Dei and a secret believer that the United States should never have removed itself from Britain's control, but I'm skeptical that even he believes he's really going to find something on which to skewer the impetus for the Mueller investigation. I don't dismiss the very real possibility that he can manipulate a fact to make someone look bad, though. The truth is, he really doesn't need to look into the past to try to accuse someone of wrongdoing. He could do that by using some process violation on those within the justice and intelligence agencies to persecute a tRump-indentified "enemy."

crickets

(25,964 posts)
13. Important Link Within:
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 03:18 PM
Oct 2019
Leading Civil Rights Lawyer Shows 20 Ways Trump Is Copying Hitler’s Early Rhetoric and Policies AUG 9 2109
The author, Burt Neuborne, is one of America’s top civil liberties lawyers, and questions whether federal government can contain Trump and GOP power grabs.

Karadeniz

(22,511 posts)
15. We need a house committee to investigate Barr and probably Pompeo and it needs to be
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 03:43 PM
Oct 2019

Announced so that the fake media will have to mention it. They need to be impeached. Don't let Scumbag get away with his manipulating the govt. Shulkin needs to be on every show explaining his new book.

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