Donald Trump Calls for AG Barr to Indict Joe Biden With 26 Days Until Election

[highplainsdem]

Source: Newsweek

With less than one month until the election, President Donald Trump is calling for his attorney general to indict his challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, for the "greatest political crime in the history of our country."

Russia has plagued the Trump administration since he took office and accusations he colluded with one of America's top adversaries to win the election called the validity of his victory into question. Democrats and Republicans both use a report from special counsel Robert Mueller to fuel their arguments in favor or against Trump, but recently declassified documents prove the improper behavior falls on Biden and former President Barack Obama, Trump claimed.

On Thursday, Trump told Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo that Biden and Obama "spited' his campaign and urged Attorney General Bill Barr to indict them because "we got plenty, you don't need any more." Without an indictment, Trump said, "we'll get little satisfaction," and he "won't forget it."

Newsweek reached out to the Biden campaign for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.

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Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-calls-ag-barr-indict-joe-biden-26-days-until-election-1537518

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David Axelrod tweet about this story, minutes ago:

Link to tweet

Ok, here’s the reality:
@POTUS is sick. He is taking drugs that could impact on his state-of-mind. And polls increasingly suggest that he is about to become the thing he can least abide: a loser.
Now it feels like he’s careening out of control.

[louis-t]

1. Fucking cry baby.

Even if it were true, he has done much, much worse.

[In_The_Wind]

2. Trump has lost his mind.

[Woodwizard]

38. You can't lose what you don't have

[In_The_Wind]

41. Thank you. Excellent point.

[StClone]

3. It's not happening

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Is this a real tweet?

[lostnfound]

16. Here's a different one that IS real

Link to tweet

?s=21

[SWBTATTReg]

20. Yeah, I saw this one yesterday when the moron in chief was doing his usual whining, moaning, etc.

[CaptYossarian]

29. To his credit, at least he isn't poisoning his opponents like "some" people.

Yet.

I am anxious to see who Biden's AG will be. Their first four years will involve "de-Nazifying" our government right down to local school boards. I'd also like to see Morris Dees replace Rudy Giuliani in whatever cockamamie title Trump bestowed upon him.

I want real justice, dammit!

[LaMouffette]

37. Don't give him any ideas!

Actually, I bet he already contemplated it, but then thought of the consequences if it came to light that he had conspired to poison Biden. Much better to try to infect Biden with Covid during a debate. No way to prove that Biden caught it from him!

I want real justice, too. We need a righteous, aggressive, crusader of an AG, someone who actually gives a shit about upholding the Constitution, and who will not let Trump or anyone in his administration or any of his buddies or family members get a pass.

I wish that Stormy Daniels's attorney hadn't turned out to be a POS. We need someone smart and tough like him, but not a felon! Is that too much to ask for???

[CaptYossarian]

45. Senator Harris is already spoken for but this Eric Holder guy is still young enough to

serve 8 (16?) more years.

His former boss is also available too.

(Can you imagine the deplorables if Biden had an all-Black Cabinet? Pass it down.)

[LaMouffette]

73. Or imagine if Holder's former boss were appointed to the Supreme Court!

That would be exquisite!

[CaptYossarian]

74. Absolutely!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

71. I'm sorry, but how is spying on the Russian stooge who.is not

yet BLOTUS treason?

(Not that they did. Or did they? They would have had good reason to, it seems to me.)

[lostnfound]

23. I'm wondering if it came from Parler

They’ve rebuilt twitter for cultists in Parler.

[Upthevibe]

34. StClone....

Is this a real tweet?

[StClone]

58. No but hard to tell

[Mr. Sparkle]

4. President mental patient is sounding slightly unhinged this morning.

He must be off his meds.

[Eyeball_Kid]

32. On his meds, off his meds... what's the difference? n/t

[world wide wally]

5. Advice from Pootie?

[mitch96]

19. Yup, sounds just like Putin. Isn't he doing this with the opposition person in Belarus? nt

[world wide wally]

21. And if that doesn't work, he poisons them

[Captain Zero]

68. Trump and Pence are trying to infect opponents while

Debating. It is so obvious.

[onetexan]

70. At this point i think even Pootie's abandoned the Con

Seeing him in a delirious state. He's no good anymore so Kremlin w prolly w ditch him.

[Newest Reality]

6. I have to run to the store. I'm almost out of popcorn.

[End Of The Road]

49. Could you pick me up some wine while you're there?

[Newest Reality]

57. Sure thing! ;)

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Trump's brain: "Where is my James Comey?"

[The Magistrate]

14. Cold But Fair, Sir

More than any other single person, Comey put the cheap thug into office.

[Doodley]

9. Trump would do or say anything to steal the election. He would burn America to the ground. He would

start a war. There are no limits.

[KS Toronado]

33. That's still my biggest fear, Nov 3rd/4th he'll call on his base to grab their arms and defend him.

[not fooled]

10. The tinpottiest of tinpot dictator tricks

so far the U.S. has not gone full-on Ukraine...not yet.

[link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko|]

In May 2010, the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's office started a number of criminal cases against Yulia Tymoshenko which prevented her from normal political activity and from international travel to her allies in the West. The European Parliament passed a resolution condemning the Yanukovych government for persecution of Tymoshenko as well as for prosecution in the "Gas case" and other cases against her and her ministers.[301] On 24 June 2011, a trial started in the "gas case", concerning a contract signed in 2009 with Russian gas company Gazprom to supply natural gas to Ukraine. Tymoshenko was charged with abuse of power and embezzlement, as the court found the deal anti-economic for the country and abusive.[302]

Tymoshenko's trial (she was charged in May 2011) for abuse of office concerning a natural gas imports contract signed with Russia in January 2009 started on 24 June 2011 in Kyiv.[303][304] A number of criminal cases were also opened against former officials from the second Tymoshenko Government.[305][306][nb 8] According to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, those cases were indiscriminately made to fight corruption in Ukraine.[307][308][309] Former President Viktor Yushchenko testified against Tymoshenko during the trial, which he called "a normal judicial process."[310] The trial against Tymoshenko has been referred to as "selective justice" and "political persecution" in statements by the U.S., Russia, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain and other European countries; in statements by the European Union, NATO, the European People's Party; and in statements by human rights organizations such as Transparency International, Freedom House, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.[311] Following her conviction, Tymoshenko remained under criminal investigation for ten criminal acts;[312] Ukrainian prosecutors have claimed Tymoshenko committed even more criminal acts.[313]

Early in July 2011, the Ukrainian security service (SBU) opened a new criminal investigation into alleged non-delivery of goods by United Energy Systems of Ukraine (in 1996) to Russia for $405.5 million, the SBU maintains that Russia may claim this sum to the State budget of Ukraine (this criminal case was closed in Russia in December 2005 due to lapse of time).[59]

On 11 October 2011, the court found Tymoshenko guilty of abuse of power and sentenced her to seven years in prison, banned her from seeking elected office for her period of imprisonment, and ordered her to pay the state $188 million.[314][315][316] She was convicted for exceeding her powers as Prime Minister by ordering Naftogaz to sign the gas deal with Russia in 2009.[316][316] Tymoshenko did appeal the sentence, which she compared to Stalin's Great Terror,[314][316] on 24 October 2011.[317]

[The Magistrate]

15. Half Remembered Advice From Manafort, Sir

[Dr. Jack]

11. I'm sure this will help him win over suburban moderates

College educated people in the 'burbs love it when a president stoned off his ass threatens to abuse his power and arrest his political opponents for undisclosed, vague crimes.

[bluestarone]

12. THIS kinda PROVES what he WOULD do

IF he could!! donald putin RUMP that's who we are dealing with NOW!

[lastlib]

13. Did anybody else hear that gurgling noise??

Weird.

[Budi]

17. Get the straight jacket Donald Trump is off the deep end🤪

[Warpy]

18. He's desperate for another Comey boost

Comey threw him the election last time, maybe Dumdum should have kept him around.

[Grokenstein]

60. The desire to knife him in the back was far too strong.

And Dim Don clearly never thinks ahead.

[Wicked Blue]

22. If the presumed charge is "spite":

someone should indict the Orange Lunatic instead

[infullview]

24. To quote Dan Quayle

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

[Marcuse]

25. Rosebud

[jalan48]

26. Why agree to debate this guy?

[Illumination]

35. Right. We've seen enough. We know Trump's a crazy brainless child & Biden is the adult in

the room. The first debate was a horror show. We've made up our minds. We don't need to be retraumatized any further...

[sprinkleeninow]

39. Mb Joe and Co. will decide "Nah, ain't gonna be future debates."

[BlueWavePsych]

27. Invoke the 25th Amendment!

[Illumination]

36. Just heard Nancy will be working on that tomorrow...

[cayugafalls]

28. The only person to be sent to jail is Trump for inciting violent militias to attempt acts of terror

Trump is the rogue leader of the domestic terrorists.

[pandr32]

30. He thinks he is entitled to our country's top office

In fact, he thinks the USA is part of his property portfolio. He has acquired many assets by questionable means so why would the U.S.A. be any different.
He favors the poorer red states because they show him more deference, and treats the wealthier blue states as run-down low-income properties as he originally managed for Fred Trump. He never really was accepted and fawned over as he desired when he moved into Manhattan, so perhaps he has a psychological reason for hating blue state cities--he can't get the sycophantic adoration he craves.

[Initech]

31. He is frothing-at-the-mouth batshit fucking insane.

[Kablooie]

40. I knew it! I predicted this last week. Trump will try to indict Biden.

He is so transparent.

[Martin Eden]

42. If Trump gets another four years ...

... unjustified arrests of his political opponents will become a reality.

[Javaman]

43. this is trumps weak soup "october surprise" he had been itching to release but...

covid, fly in hair, jacked up on roids, etc.

now, don't get me wrong, like most things trump, this is nothing more that bullshit and bluster with no "there" there.

it just feeds more into the insane ramblings of a drug addled psychopath.

and the timing for a stunt like this, as if anyone cares at this point, passed a very long time ago.

but don't you worry, since the orange asshole will be "hosting" limpballs radio show tomorrow; you can bet your bottom dollar, he will be promoting the living shit out of this horseshit to get the mouth breathing nut job psychopaths-in-waiting all riled up to start something when he loses the election.

[Evolve Dammit]

44. 25th his ass. Get the nuclear football AWAY from him

[IronLionZion]

46. Sounds like a Putin-esque dictator

This is like a Russian solution to most problems.

[sandensea]

48. His pal Macri tried the very thing in Argentina in 2019. It didn't work.

Voters, alas, are smarter than what these right-wing authoritarians would like.

[sandensea]

47. Typical banana republic despot

[dchill]

50. I'm thinking mushroom republic.

*sorry not sorry*

[NurseJackie]

51. Ha!!

[sandensea]

54. Zing!

And he keep taking them steroids, it'll be a baby corn republic.

[dchill]

55. Inverted baby corn!

[sandensea]

63. The things some girls do for money.

[bucolic_frolic]

52. Amazing Trump doesn't think the country would see this as a cheap political stunt

Totally lacking in self-awareness.

[OneBro]

53. New, medicated Trump, same as the old Trump. Both flew over the cuckoo's nest.

[kimbutgar]

56. That little orange monkey is really flinging the Pooh now In desperation.

He knows he’s losing badly and is so delusional he thinks he’ll get away with threats.

[Grokenstein]

59. Dear Lunatic-in-Chief:

We are 'standing by' too.
There are more of us.
And we're not ALL incompetent.

Signed, the American People

[swag]

61. Bartiromo is now an active participant in this attempted authoritarian jack-move.

Disgusting and frightening.

[TheDemsshouldhireme]

62. Wonder if he's struggling

with Senator Harris's question--has anyone suggested you open investigations on people.

[paleotn]

64. Yea, yea....

Whatever, Donnie.

[UnderThisLaw]

65. How ironic that those who constantly preach to "Make America Great Again" don't long for the time

when asking without proper cause for your political rival to be arrested would be committing political suicide

[Totally Tunsie]

66. "Newsweek reached out to the Biden campaign for comment

but did not receive a response in time for publication."

Because Joe hasn't stopped laughing yet?

[Cha]

67. Rt.. and trump "won't forget it if he doesn't"

Freaking Loser

[usajumpedtheshark]

72. he won't forget as he rots in jail for all of his crimes

[ucrdem]

69. Poor silly man

Maybe you can beat coronavirus but you can't beat Joe, so spare us the rancid halloween tricks and just go

:tsk

[Initech]

75. Ugh it's time to put this nightmare behind us.

The sooner Trump is gone the better. He is losing it big time.