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(85,919 posts)...if Barr got wind that the SC is about to rule against them this week and allow the release of Trump's taxes, (one of the plaintiffs, the SDNY, NY DA Cyrus Vance argued the case before the court), then he'd want the documents to fall into friendly hands.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)"He suggests he is being fired because the administration wants to delay or interrupt an investigation, and his language suggests that both he and the administration know exactly what that investigation is. There are a number of reasons the SDNY might be examining the finances of the president or his family, but former National Security Advisor John Bolton suggested another reason in his forthcoming book: he apparently claims Trump assured Turkeys autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan he would fill the SDNY with his own loyalists, which would enable him to do Erdogan a political favor." https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-19-2020
Nevilledog
(50,687 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)All bad for the criminal in chief and his henchmen
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)the Ukraine (truncated) transcript, where Trump tells Zelensky to get in touch with Barr. Barr distanced himself assiduously but it was suspicious. There are probably some parts of this story I'm forgetting. Barr went nation-shopping to find something--perhaps dirt on Hunter Biden/Burisma. Those two are very much connected so it wouldn't be surprising if an investigation into Giuliani implicated Barr.
onecaliberal
(32,489 posts)Theyre all in eyeball deep. Putin is quite literally running the country.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)like Brian Benczkowski, also suddenly resigned 3 days ago. Trump appointee, strong conservative advocate for Trump before SCOTUS, like Bencz had planned to leave for some while but not until July.
OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and it's the timing with Bencz., and Berman, that made me notice. Maybe they want his replacement in place for whatever they intend next?
OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)Yes, indeed. And they were Trumpers too, Benczowski was the lawyer for Alfa Bank....I wonder are they jumping ship knowing what's coming next. Apart from Berman obviously.
CrispyQ
(36,231 posts)to stave off what Trump/Barr/McConnell have planned for the US.
onecaliberal
(32,489 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,679 posts)How about a giant CABAL made up of the same people who wrote the "PNAC....Project New American Century" in 1997.....
BTW, has anyone heard anything from Cheney/Rumsfeld/Pearle/ Wolfowitz/et al ??????????????????????
onetexan
(12,994 posts)Benczkowski should be supoena'd by Nadler, even if he has to treat him as a hostile witness. I think we're just scratching the surface There's much more to this than meets the eye. Lowbarr is neckdeep in crappola.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Seth Abramson and TomJChicago. Tom has extensive material about Donnie's frontotemporal lobe dementia which is worsening. He has extensive documentation of Trump's coordination and balance problems, paranoia, etc.
Both of them have said that Barr attempting to fire the US attorney for the SDNY means that they are investigating Barr and Giuliani. Which is too close for comfort for Donnie.
lastlib
(22,981 posts)They're making Nixon look like a Catholic altar boy. House Judiciary Committee needs to subpoena EVERY scrap of paper, and EVERY electronic gizmo in Bill Barr's purview--NOW! Before the "tragic" (Cheney-esque) office fire! Same for the White House while they're at it.
Impeach Barr! Then try again with tRumpski.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)onecaliberal
(32,489 posts)Music Man
(1,181 posts)There's already been blowback for holding a rally of this sort, but he won't even get to win this news cycle.
Taxes, investigations, questionable firings, foreign dealings to interfere in an election. This is the story of the day.
onecaliberal
(32,489 posts)This is going to blow up in his orange face.
Music Man
(1,181 posts)John Oliver called the Russia investigations "Stupid Watergate."
That about says it.
onecaliberal
(32,489 posts)The crimes are far worse than watergate. I hope America can recover.
Music Man
(1,181 posts)That the perpetrators are dumb, not the investigation
I like to think we can stop being foiled by Trump and the people who still love him. Surely 2020 is the year that the forces of intelligence, compassion, and honesty defeat Trump and Trumpism decisively. If it can't, then our political system is beyond repair.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)zaj
(3,433 posts)(1) reelection, in which massive corruption and coverups will accelerate, and this will be a blip, or
(2) under Biden political pressure and claims of partisan witchhunt might reduce or delay prosecutions
jaxexpat
(6,703 posts)will tumble if the Barr card is pulled. That doesn't seem like such a hard thing to do. He's always tip-toeing around outside his realm of constitutional responsibility. Should be quite vulnerable. The scheduled hearings need steroids and energy drinks. The volume in the media needs turning up on them. Protest inertia needs broadening(don't think it will). It's too long to November. Impeachment 0.2 would sure help pass the time constructively.
Democrats simply can't end up relying solely on the election? again?
Star-Thrower
(309 posts)when Barr put forth Jay Clayton currently head of the Securities and Exchange Commission to fill Berman's vacancy. Learning that Clayton, despite being a Lawyer, has never been a prosecutor.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/503711-graham-signals-he-wont-take-up-us-attorney-pick-without-schumer-gillibrand