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TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
Wed May 1, 2019, 06:23 PM May 2019

Barr: "The Letter's A Bit Snitty, And I Think It Was Probably Written By One Of His Staff People."

When cornered by Blumenthal about the details in the letter, Barr responded with:

"The Letter's A Bit Snitty, And I Think It Was Probably Written By One Of His Staff People."


I watch Fox News so you don't have to. (And it's cost me a lot of brain cells, to be sure) But all day yesterday, Fox News was pushing the narrative that the Mueller letter was written by somebody else. They pushed it about a dozen times on Trump's favourite show 'Fox and Friends." They're probably put coordinated their talking points in that direction, at least for the moment.

Just giving you a heads up: their next spin job is probably going to be to try to pin the letter on Andrew Weissmann, who the right love to hate. We'll see if that pans out.
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Barr: "The Letter's A Bit Snitty, And I Think It Was Probably Written By One Of His Staff People." (Original Post) TrollBuster9090 May 2019 OP
Fuck Barr Celerity May 2019 #1
Barr is tRump's consigliery at140 May 2019 #2
Fuck Barr Leghorn21 May 2019 #3
Haha! Good point. Lets see what happens if they TRY to haul Weissmann up before the Senate! nt TrollBuster9090 May 2019 #5
If there was ANY doubt about Barr bluestarone May 2019 #4
Rather bdamomma May 2019 #6

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
3. Fuck Barr
Wed May 1, 2019, 06:43 PM
May 2019

On the other hand, Weissmann? OH HELL YEAH

Weissmann has a reputation as a fierce prosecutor, having headed up the Justice Department’s Enron Task Force. Before that, as an assistant US attorney in the Eastern District of New York, he pursued cases targeting Mafia wise guys and Russian organized crime members.

Weissmann played a role in an unusual case—involving the Mafia, the Russian mob, and securities fraud—that is now oddly linked to Trump.

As a prosecutor in the Eastern District, Weissmann signed a 1998 cooperation agreement between the US government and Felix Sater, a violent felon and securities trader who had pleaded guilty to financial crimes. Sater went on to become a confidential informant for the FBI and a Trump business partner. During the years in which Sater was secretly cooperating with the Feds, he was also engaging in key real estate ventures with Trump. This included scouting for deals in Russia and Eastern Europe, projects that never materialized. Trump has consistently claimed that his business empire has “nothing to do with Russia.” Yet Sater’s intriguing tale represents at least one important Russia connection for Trump.


More:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/trump-felix-sater-andrew-weissman/

THANK YOU MR. WEISSMAN



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