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babylonsister

(170,962 posts)
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 02:13 PM Jun 2020

GOP Witness (Turley) Calls For Barr's Resignation If He Was Involved In Photo Op...

https://crooksandliars.com/2020/06/gop-witness-calls-barrs-resignation-if-he


6/30/20 3:48am
GOP Witness Calls For Barr's Resignation If He Was Involved In Photo Op: 'Outrageous Use Of Power'
Jonathan Turley told Congress that if Attorney General William Barr was involved in the plan to clear Lafayette park for Trump's photo op he should resign.
By David


George Washington University Professor Jonathan Turley, a witness for House Republicans, on Monday said that Attorney General William Barr should resign if he knew about President Donald Trump’s Lafayette Square photo op before protesters were forcefully cleared from the area.

“There was evidence the plan was put into place 48 hours before,” Turley told the House Oversight Committee. “Even if those facts are true, it does not answer whether the president’s photo op played a role in the size of the perimeter, the decision to move people all the way to I Street, for example.”

“Those are things that are legitimate questions,” he continued. “If Attorney General Barr cleared that area for the purpose of the photo op, despite knowing him for many years, being a graduate of our law school, I would immediately call for him to step down because that would be an outrageous use of power.”

He added: “If this was done to intimidate people, this would be a serious problem.”


Barr, who ordered the square cleared and participated in the president’s photo op, is on record denying that he knew the event was going to take place.
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GOP Witness (Turley) Calls For Barr's Resignation If He Was Involved In Photo Op... (Original Post) babylonsister Jun 2020 OP
He's Right But... jayfish Jun 2020 #1
Bill Barr was in the thick of it. He knew exactly what was going on. crickets Jun 2020 #2
Turley jumps off Trump train, caught trying to save his future blm Jun 2020 #3
I know, I just gasped a bit!! Leghorn21 Jun 2020 #4
Do you hear Carole King or is it just me? blm Jun 2020 #5
Good one! nt crickets Jun 2020 #6
Naw, I hear her too, b!! Leghorn21 Jun 2020 #7
Heh blm Jun 2020 #9
But he said "if"... Wounded Bear Jun 2020 #8
Yeah, welcome to 'the party" dipshit. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Jun 2020 #10
Trump's check must have bounced. C_U_L8R Jun 2020 #11
Isn't George Washington University Barr's alma mater? Budi Jun 2020 #12

crickets

(25,896 posts)
2. Bill Barr was in the thick of it. He knew exactly what was going on.
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 02:24 PM
Jun 2020
Former US Justice Lawyers Call for Investigation of Barr
VOA June 10 (is this the longest month ever or what?)

WASHINGTON - More than 1,250 former attorneys for the U.S. Justice Department called Wednesday for the agency’s internal watchdog to investigate the role Attorney General William Barr played in the aggressive police clearance of largely peaceful protesters from a park near the White House last week.

Police mounted on horses and officers on the ground firing pepper balls at the protesters cleared Lafayette Square minutes before President Donald Trump walked through the park June 1 for a photo-op at a nearby church where he held a Bible aloft.

Barr, the top U.S. law enforcement official, has acknowledged telling police commanders stationed at the park that he wanted the fencing perimeter surrounding the park extended a block farther away from the White House after three days of occasionally violent protests in Washington May 29-31.

But he has disputed accounts that clearing the park was directly related to Trump’s short walk, which Barr joined, through the park to St. John’s Episcopal Church.


Barr lies again and again in this article.

Read it quick before the new head of VOA takes it down.

Leghorn21

(13,520 posts)
4. I know, I just gasped a bit!!
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 02:59 PM
Jun 2020

and yeah, best luck with that "future" you think you have, LOSER!!

Leghorn21

(13,520 posts)
7. Naw, I hear her too, b!!
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 03:11 PM
Jun 2020

--along with "50 Ways to Leave Your Unbelievably Putrid Political Party!"

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