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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 07:25 AM Feb 2020

"... when Barr became Attorney General he shut down *six* separate investigations into Trump"

I have multiple sources inside the Justice Department that tell me when Barr became Attorney General he shut down *six* separate investigations into Trump and Trump related companies and surrogates.

I'm told Barr has also prevented *two new* investigations from moving forward.




Don Winslow
@donwinslow
#1 Internationally bestselling Author of THE CARTEL, THE FORCE, SAVAGES, THE POWER OF THE DOG, AND THE BORDER


FWIW. If this is true, this is extreme corruption on Barr's part.
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"... when Barr became Attorney General he shut down *six* separate investigations into Trump" (Original Post) steve2470 Feb 2020 OP
Tell me again about how ridiculous I am gab13by13 Feb 2020 #1
The next potus MFM008 Feb 2020 #3
Would "they" be the same authorities who enforced the House subpoenas? Magoo48 Feb 2020 #11
Have you been lost in a cave the last few weeks? Dave Starsky Feb 2020 #18
Dont you get the part MFM008 Feb 2020 #42
The person who holds the title of president is the CIC - he orders the military. lark Feb 2020 #26
If he loses the election he won't be CIC. Phoenix61 Feb 2020 #32
I absolutely think they will raise the ratfucking level 100% and iowa is just the tip of their plan. lark Feb 2020 #33
He can't "declare the election invalid" Phoenix61 Feb 2020 #34
NOTHING so far with these clowns has been "how it works". Dave Starsky Feb 2020 #39
I think he'll take it to court D_Master81 Feb 2020 #40
Again, if that happens, the result is the same. lark Feb 2020 #41
We may not even make it to then Cosmocat Feb 2020 #8
Question. If trump decides he is not going to step down, what is the recourse to kick his butt Perseus Feb 2020 #13
It is a done deal. Dave Starsky Feb 2020 #19
He is a coward MFM008 Feb 2020 #43
You are not ridiculous at all in my opinion. Magoo48 Feb 2020 #21
Sorry, I believe history will show this coup started in 2000 with the SCOTUS making Bush POTUS. usaf-vet Feb 2020 #31
THIS IS NONSENSE !!! Said no one who's been paying half assed attention uponit7771 Feb 2020 #37
Not that it will happen, but can Barr be impeached? no_hypocrisy Feb 2020 #2
My understanding is "Yes" Perseus Feb 2020 #14
Yes MoonlitKnight Feb 2020 #35
Barr has added his name to the list now, duforsure Feb 2020 #4
John Mitchell? True Blue American Feb 2020 #5
They seem to forget True Blue American Feb 2020 #6
People like Barr do sleep well. The criminal mind works different, and his is a criminal mind. Perseus Feb 2020 #16
Another from Winslow Mike 03 Feb 2020 #7
As many of us suspect, Barr already lied under oath when Sen. Harris asked him the same questions. usaf-vet Feb 2020 #29
Barr is filthy dirty and should be impeached & disbarred. He is dangerous. dlk Feb 2020 #9
He can be disbarred. I don't know which state he's from to contact them. blueinredohio Feb 2020 #10
THEY ARE CHEATING---TRUMP WILL GET REELECTED blakstoneranger Feb 2020 #12
We have known this for a long time, of course they will cheat, the BIG question is Perseus Feb 2020 #17
I have read many stories... stillcool Feb 2020 #30
My fear, too. Lonestarblue Feb 2020 #23
+1, we have to have a plan for after the cheating uponit7771 Feb 2020 #38
"The Fixer." He got his Roy Cohn. Is America going to survive The Don? Barr must be impeached. Evolve Dammit Feb 2020 #15
I guess it goes without saying there will be no FBI investigation of the Trumphumper phone calls Vinca Feb 2020 #20
The House needs to shift the investigation to Barr. Buckeyeblue Feb 2020 #22
My fear is that the election debacle in Iowa will be replicated on a national level with in2herbs Feb 2020 #24
We know that one of the NEW investigations ScratchCat Feb 2020 #25
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2020 #27
Barr is just a janitor. rickyhall Feb 2020 #28
Barr loves that trump is such a big distraction from their corruption. Kota Feb 2020 #36
How credible is the guy making this claim? Jose Garcia Feb 2020 #44

MFM008

(19,805 posts)
3. The next potus
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 07:51 AM
Feb 2020

Term begins at 12:01 Jan 20.
They can order in troops or drag the maggot out
By his hair.
He will leave.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
18. Have you been lost in a cave the last few weeks?
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 09:06 AM
Feb 2020

While you were sleeping, the US Senate handed the president carte blanche to do absolutely anything he wants to stay in office, should he feel his reelection is in the best interest of the nation.

He's not going anywhere, and there is absolutely no one or nothing short of cardiovascular disease that will remove him.

MFM008

(19,805 posts)
42. Dont you get the part
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 04:09 PM
Feb 2020

Where he will not be the president passed that moment.
He will be a civilian.
Does everyone cower in fear at this tubby maggot?

lark

(23,091 posts)
26. The person who holds the title of president is the CIC - he orders the military.
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 09:56 AM
Feb 2020

If anything, he will order the military to protect him and imprison whoever the Dem nominee is because he will become an enemy of the USA and a traitor (for winning). That is far far more likely, military always obeys commands, it's what they do.

Phoenix61

(17,002 posts)
32. If he loses the election he won't be CIC.
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 11:36 AM
Feb 2020

Are you suggesting he will cancel the election? Seriously?

lark

(23,091 posts)
33. I absolutely think they will raise the ratfucking level 100% and iowa is just the tip of their plan.
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 11:47 AM
Feb 2020

I think they will remove precincts in red states with Democratic areas wholesale, creating huge log jams where people have to leave the line because they have children to pick up and backing up all Dem party phone lines so results can't get through. They will use signature matching everywhere since it reduced Dem votes by 10s of thousands last time when it was used in FL, they will do things we have never ever considered, like misappropriating boxe(s) of votes as they did in Broward County, because we aren't criminal traitors like them. They will do this to create doubt and then he will say the election was rigged or stolen and declare it invalid - yes I do 100% think he would do that if he doesn't get the votes. His plan is to steal the election with massive help from Russia and probably SA and Israel and if he that doesn't work, to declare it invalid . Count on it. It seems bizarre, but these are the times we live in.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
39. NOTHING so far with these clowns has been "how it works".
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 12:27 PM
Feb 2020

They descend to new levels of depravity every single day. You ain't seen nothin' yet.

D_Master81

(1,822 posts)
40. I think he'll take it to court
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 12:27 PM
Feb 2020

Remember in 2016 when he said without illegals he would’ve won the popular vote? If it comes down to a state or 2 and it’s remotely close I expect he’ll tie it up in court. That’s what he does. Cast doubt on the result allowing he and his supporters to always declare victimhood

lark

(23,091 posts)
41. Again, if that happens, the result is the same.
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 12:40 PM
Feb 2020

RW Russian Repug SCOTUS will definitely support their guy. They have already shown they put deference to their would-be king over the constitution and 100% certain - they will do it again if it comes to that. We have zero protections from treachery at this time.

Cosmocat

(14,563 posts)
8. We may not even make it to then
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 08:05 AM
Feb 2020

but if we do, yeah, it is going to get pretty ugly if we can beat him.

Give him two and a half months to stir up the shit ...

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
13. Question. If trump decides he is not going to step down, what is the recourse to kick his butt
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 08:53 AM
Feb 2020

out of the White House?

I am a bit puzzled by this because it seems incomprehensible that someone who lost an election would decide to stay, and could stay. Someone like the military, or police, I have to assume, would have to take the reigns, pick him up and take him out.

This is a genuine question because when people say "he will refuse to leave", sounds like a done deal where no one can do anything about it.

Magoo48

(4,705 posts)
21. You are not ridiculous at all in my opinion.
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 09:10 AM
Feb 2020

There is a coup in progress; It began well before the 2016 election. No authority is willing to support our laws and our Concentration. The public, by in large, is flaccid and uncaring, totally distracted. The takeover is well established and meeting little true resistance. The House is weak, because our Construction is now nullified. A few million people in the streets until we see change would fix it. Rolling General strikes would fix it. That's not gonna happen here for a multitude of reasons: apathy, distraction, fear of our own government, fear of our own police.....

So, those of us who care find all of our eggs in one torn and leaking basket. It’s a little unsettling.
With any luck, I’ll be wrong on all counts.

usaf-vet

(6,181 posts)
31. Sorry, I believe history will show this coup started in 2000 with the SCOTUS making Bush POTUS.
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 11:03 AM
Feb 2020

Hopefully, someday a historian will follow the trail from 2000 to tRump. With some minor bumps (Obama & 2018 House win) in the RW long-range plan for complete sustained control of our Democracy. They have been picking away at the underpinning of our Democracy. Removing the checks and balances the founder put into our Constitution.

In between 2000 and 2020 they have stolen presidential elections, implement programs to suppress voting, gerrymandered states to solidify their congressional control, denied an elected president his right to appoint a SCOTUS justice, used the SCOTUS to enable dark money to influence elections (Citizen United), with Russian election interference they have installed a highly unqualified maniac in the WH, they have installed hundreds of RW judges in our federal court, they have destroyed the legislative branch of the government with the help of MoscowMitch AND NOW they will do whatever it takes to plant the maniac back in the WH for a second term.

They have taken us full circle from breaking away from a monarchy to installing a homegrown tyrannical monarch at the head of our government. A tyrant who already has plans to continue his dynasty starting with his firstborn.

What did I leave out...OH yes! A lasting war throughout the middle east, ignoring global warming aka climate change, a refusal to accept reusable energy source while continuing to pollute the environment with non-renewable oil and coal. To name a few additional RW ideas.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
4. Barr has added his name to the list now,
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 07:53 AM
Feb 2020

Of corrupt lawyers for trump that'll end up in prison. He will lose his freedom when this is all over , and there will be a period that they get fully exposed for all their crimes, and Barr will end up behind bars. I bet Barr isn't sleeping well now.

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
16. People like Barr do sleep well. The criminal mind works different, and his is a criminal mind.
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 09:03 AM
Feb 2020

For some reason criminals do not seem to grasp the concept of consequences, they just push forward, they make decisions and never look at the side effects, they seem to believe they are going to get away with whatever crime they have just perpetrated.

A good example is a guy, many years ago, in California who kidnapped a 12 year old girl, raped her, killed her, threw her body in a bush, and two hours later was found in a bar drinking beer with some pals. There was no remorse, there was nothing. The criminal mind works very different and that is why it is hard for non-criminals to understand why they do the things they do.

The creature in the WH is one of those with a criminal mind, he has zero concept of consequences, which is what makes him, and Barr, so dangerous, and many of the republicans seem to have fallen into that frame of mind, they seem very confident they will not get caught, that their actions won't have any consequences, they don't even realize how foolish and how cowardly they look when they praise their leader in front of the cameras, like they did yesterday, they don't realize people are looking now at them with contempt, with pity, and shame.

usaf-vet

(6,181 posts)
29. As many of us suspect, Barr already lied under oath when Sen. Harris asked him the same questions.
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 10:28 AM
Feb 2020
He won't answer the questions now. Good luck getting him under oath.

dlk

(11,552 posts)
9. Barr is filthy dirty and should be impeached & disbarred. He is dangerous.
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 08:07 AM
Feb 2020

Either the bar has rules and ethics or not.

blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)
10. He can be disbarred. I don't know which state he's from to contact them.
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 08:11 AM
Feb 2020

If anyone on here knows how and where to do this they should post it so we can all get on this right away. We need to get rid of him NOW.

 

blakstoneranger

(333 posts)
12. THEY ARE CHEATING---TRUMP WILL GET REELECTED
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 08:52 AM
Feb 2020

They are working this now. They are going to cheat. The law does not apply to trump. So why would they let him depend on the american voters to win reelection? They won't. They are working on cheating him into reelection right now and the media is not reporting it because they too are "ALL IN". And they don't care. You all saw how he rigged the senate trial to his favor. What makes you think he will not cheat to remain in office!! IS ANYBODY PAYING ATTENTION!! Barr will not allow the DOJ to investigate or even observe this.... THEY NEED TO FIND A WAY TO GET BARR OUT, GET HIM DISBARRED. A HOUSE IS ONLY AS STRONG AS IT'S FOUNDATION, IF THEY DESTROY TRUMP'S FOUNDATION, HE WILL FALL.

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
17. We have known this for a long time, of course they will cheat, the BIG question is
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 09:05 AM
Feb 2020

What are Democrats doing to prevent this from happening? Are they being proactive to prevent the con's four more years? If they are depending on clean elections they are very naive, we can see from what happened in Iowa that republicans are set to cheat at all levels.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
30. I have read many stories...
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 10:34 AM
Feb 2020

about people working in certain states to combat voting issues...but really each person, in each state, is responsible for their vote being cast and counted. It is the people who vote the Republicans into office, to oversee their elections, that can prevent this from happening. I think it is the state governments that will determine the future. The federal government is gone.

Lonestarblue

(9,971 posts)
23. My fear, too.
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 09:25 AM
Feb 2020

Was Iowa a test run of things Trumpies could do to confuse elections to the point where the results become unreliable? We need to express our concerns to the people running the election in all states to start putting them on notice that we are watching, especially in the swing states that carry the Electoral College advantage. Lots of daylight on the process will help.

Vinca

(50,261 posts)
20. I guess it goes without saying there will be no FBI investigation of the Trumphumper phone calls
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 09:08 AM
Feb 2020

that shut down the election reporting lines in Iowa. Barr should be disbarred . . . at the very least.

in2herbs

(2,945 posts)
24. My fear is that the election debacle in Iowa will be replicated on a national level with
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 09:39 AM
Feb 2020

trump saying he can't leave office because there is no official winner. Ds better prepare for the worst.

ScratchCat

(1,981 posts)
25. We know that one of the NEW investigations
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 09:44 AM
Feb 2020

was the complain filed over the phone call. So this means there have likely been TWO criminal complaints filed by officials within the Trump Administration. I bet dollars to donuts the other involves the Treasury Department and his audits because of the reported whistle blower.

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Kota

(901 posts)
36. Barr loves that trump is such a big distraction from their corruption.
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 11:58 AM
Feb 2020

Media and dems gotta realize the important things we aren't talking about every time trump makes a fool of himself. Sending out his tweets, getting everyone to focus on that. And even then its hush- hush about his stability. We don't even go all the way there.

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