Trump prosecution could have happened years ago - Barr's Justice Department looked into hush-money saga, then it stopped
Congressman Jim Jordan wanted revenge on behalf of Donald Trump against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for bringing the election interference charges against Trump for which he’s now standing trial in Manhattan. Jordan threatened Bragg with “oversight”: dragging him before his committee repeatedly, threatening him with contempt of Congress, putting a right-wing target on Bragg’s back by publicizing him to draw sharpshooters from as far as Wyoming or Idaho, and the possibility of going to jail if he didn’t answer Jordan’s questions right.
They were furious that Bragg would prosecute Trump for a crime that the Department of Justice had already decided and announced that it wasn’t going to pursue. But why didn’t Bill Barr’s Department of Justice proceed after it had already put Michael Cohen in prison for a year for delivering the check to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet, at least until after the election, and then lying about it? Why didn’t Barr’s DOJ go after the guy who allegedly ordered the check written, the guy who’d had sex with Daniels, the guy whose run for the presidency was in the balance?
Why didn’t the Department of Justice at least investigate (it has a policy against prosecuting a sitting president) the crime it put Cohen in prison for but was possibly directed by, paid for, and also committed by Donald Trump? For one possible answer let’s turn to Geoffrey Berman, the lifelong Republican and U.S. attorney appointed by Trump to run the prosecutor’s office at the Southern District of New York. He wrote the book Holding the Line, published in September 2022, about his experiences.
In it, he came right out and accused Barr of killing the federal investigation into Trump’s role of directing and covering up that conspiracy to influence the 2016 election. Had Barr not done that, Trump could have been prosecuted in January 2021, right after he left office. And Jim Jordan couldn’t complain that Alvin Bragg was pushing a case the feds had decided wasn’t worth it.
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It's one thing to call off an investigation when it goes where you don't want it. But if he took the evidence and destroyed it, then the next investigation will never happen.
I believe Bill Barr did this several times for Chump, including evidence of Chump "doing business" with Jeffrey Epstein long before he became president. Not to mention what's going to come out in this NY trial.
Bill Barr is someone's puppet, but we don't know who is pulling his strings.
