Rosenstein Says Barr Isn't Trying to Mislead

[babylonsister]

Rosenstein baffles me.

https://politicalwire.com/2019/04/11/rosenstein-says-barr-isnt-trying-to-mislead/


Rosenstein Says Barr Isn’t Trying to Mislead
April 11, 2019 at 7:47 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein defended the Justice Department’s handling of the special counsel’s still-secret report, telling the Wall Street Journal that Attorney General William Barr is “being as forthcoming as he can” about his process for redacting and releasing the roughly 400-page document.

“Mr. Rosenstein beat back suggestions that Mr. Barr is trying to mislead the public by releasing only a four-page summary of Robert Mueller’s investigation.”

[JI7]

1. he is a coward

[real Cannabis calm]

4. He is also a criminal involved in "Obstruction of Justice." For specific information:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212002339

[BigmanPigman]

25. Yes, I heard that when Barr's Report came out

when pundits were discussing why Rosenstein would support Barr. They said how he obstructed justice himself so don't expect much from him as far as this goes in the future since he is not exactly clean either.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. not baffling, he is saying what he needs to say to keep his job.

[JI7]

6. so you think he is doing it for good/ right reasons ?

[Thomas Hurt]

7. f**k no

[elleng]

3. Too damn bad; he can RETIRE, doesn't NEED the job.

[Marcuse]

24. That's what McCabe thought.

[FBaggins]

5. It just comes naturally

He doesn’t have to try.

[Grasswire2]

8. wow, another turncoat?

Or was he always in Trump's camp?

[Mike Nelson]

9. He is Republican...

… so are Mueller and Barr. They would ally themselves with Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. His statement, Barr is "being as forthcoming as he can," is true, however. Barr is not capable of being very forthcoming.

[TrishaJ]

33. Well Rosenstein saying Barr "being as forthcoming as he can"

tells me Barr is saying what Trump needs to hear. "Handling it the right way" could mean "in order to take this guy down, we have to play this game of obfuscating the Mueller report so Trump will be satisfied while the investigations continue to play out to conclusion..."

I know it's speculation on my part, but one can hope?

But then again, Rosenstein wrote the letter for Trump to fire Comes.

[Mike Nelson]

34. Yes, there are Republicans that...

… detest Trump. They would rather have had Jeb... At one point, Rosenstein did say the 25th Amendment talk was not serious - but others present say it was. I think many of them are "handling" Trump as their best option until they can finally be rid of him. #1 leaker Kellyanne will have to take the longest shower, when it's over...

[Efilroft Sul]

10. No, Mr. Rosenstein, he's trying to cover up.

[Me.]

11. And Thus, Another Official Is Corrupted and His Reputation Goes Down The Drain

[gulliver]

12. Weasel words to help his boss...which is what Barr is also doing.

Rosenstein said that he found that people think Barr was being misleading was "bizarre," for example. He didn't say they were wrong. He said it was bizarre.

[struggle4progress]

13. "He has no real control over the fact that he's a pathological liar"

[Honeycombe8]

14. What IS the deal with Rosenstein?

OTOH, when asked such a question, what do we expect someone who works in the DOJ to say? "Yeah, Barr is totally misleading everyone. He's a liar."

[SunSeeker]

15. Says the guy who gave Trump the pretext to fire Comey.

Rosenstein is an accessory to Trump's obstruction of Justice, so it should come as no surprise that he is fine with Barr covering up that crime.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. +1

[Mickju]

16. I no longer respect nor trust Rosenstein.

Guess I never should have. After all he IS a Republican.

[BigmanPigman]

30. Me too.

[Initech]

17. He's not trying to mislead. He's intentionally misleading.

You don't have to try when you're hired to purposefully mislead and disrupt! That comes naturally to the Trump cabal.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. Omg..people here don't remember when it came to light that he talked about the 25 th

on trump? And then he went running over to the WH like a little wimp to tell Dipshit...” oh..no, never said it, think you’re great”

He is bought and sold. Period, paragraph.

Trump is an evil non-genius. He has put blockers everywhere....Rosenstein, Barr, Kavenaugh. IRS !

Time to play the brilliant three-dimensional chess move.

[Flaleftist]

20. Is Mueller not allowed to make any kind of comments at all?

[Mr. Evil]

21. BULLSHIT!!!

[ancianita]

22. Have a seat, Mr. Rosenstein. We'll take it from here.

[jalan48]

23. We were played.

[gordianot]

28. .....and are still being played

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[DallasNE]

26. I Beg To Differ

The following is Barr's response when pressed on his claim that the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign.

"There is a basis for my concern, but I'm not going to discuss the basis," Barr said.

It is unethical, at best, to make a charge and immediately fail to establish a basis for the charge, as he has done here. You say nothing until you are in a position to say something definitive. Indeed, this is the same crap Comey pulled when about 8 days before the election he announced that he was reopening the Clinton email investigation based on a backup file they had stumbled across. That, obviously, lead nowhere. And that, too, was unethical. Besides, the timeline has been examined closely and the FISA tap was by the book. I'm sure he is looking at the two agents that were having the affair and texted one another some unflattering things about Trump.

[DeminPennswoods]

27. Wasn't Rosenstein supposed to retire/leave DoJ

by now?

[SHRED]

29. He's a Republican

They protect each other.

[EveHammond13]

31. blink twice if you are being held against your will, Rod

[dem4decades]

32. Screw him and screw the Mueller he rode in on.