This op-ed sums it all up.

[ginnyinWI]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/03/this-nation-is-mercy-criminal-administration/?utm_term=.3af9088f6830

Imagine that you live in a town that has been taken over by gangsters. The mayor is a crook and so are the district attorney and police chief. You can’t fight city hall. But at least you know you can turn for help to the state or federal government. Now imagine that it’s not a city or state that has been taken over by criminals — it’s the federal government. Where do you turn for help? That is not a theoretical concern. After the release of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report, it’s our grim reality.

Even before Mueller’s probe ended, federal prosecutors in New York had implicated President Trump in ordering his lawyer, Michael Cohen, to violate federal campaign finance laws. Mueller then documented at least six ironclad incidents of obstruction of justice by Trump along with numerous instances of misconduct that, while not criminal, are definitely impeachable. The New York Review of Books reported that two prosecutors working for Mueller said that if Trump weren’t president, he would have been indicted.

Now the administration is obstructing attempts to bring the president to justice for obstruction of justice. William P. Barr isn’t the attorney general; he is, as David Rothkopf said, the obstructor general. We now know that Mueller wrote (in Barr’s description) a “snitty” letter objecting that Barr’s deceptive summary of his work, designed to falsely exonerate Trump, “threatens to undermine … public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.”

Yet when Barr testified to Congress after receiving the Mueller letter but before releasing the Mueller report, he claimed not to know whether Mueller disagreed with his conclusions. “He lied to Congress,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) charged. But even if it could be proved that Barr committed perjury (no sure thing), who would prosecute him? Is he (or his deputy) going to appoint a special counsel to investigate himself? Unlikely. And if he did appoint a special counsel, would he heed the counsel’s conclusions? Also unlikely.

The rest of the article is at the link.

[kacekwl]

1. It's organized crime in steroids.

They bought politicians, the press, the police, judges to be able to conduct criminal business without interference.

[Mc Mike]

2. Justice Dept IG and OPR. The ball's in their court to investigate and toss Barr into the klink.

Legislative and Judicial branch oversight should aid in that effort.

[True Blue American]

6. They should, but

One branch is in bed with the mob. And, who knows about the High Court?

[olegramps]

3. It affirms what I have charged for years: The Republican Party is a criminal enterprise.

From Nixon, Reagan, Bush and now the arch criminal Trump it has been ridden with criminal activities. Numerous people have gone to prison, pardoned and escaped prosecuted for crimes in everyone of these administrations. Trump is their creation and is only the latest and most corrupt of the lot.

[H2O Man]

4. Recommended.

[UniteFightBack]

5. We need to somehow close up this loophole. nt

[malaise]

7. Malcolm Nance is calling them a criminal enterprise

on AMJoy right now.

[2naSalit]

8. K&R

[notdarkyet]

9. We should find a good judge arrest trump, McConnell graham Barr and have a Nuremberg

Trial. It can last as it needs to to get to the truth. Traitors found guilty should be hanged. They don’t believe in the rule of law, show them some law.