Bill Barr cleaned up Iran Contra for Reagan and H.W. Bush big time.
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Reagan could clam that he didn’t remember anything because of Alzheimer’s and he had H.W. Bush
pardon everyone involved and walk away from the mess. In a just world people should have been held
accountable for selling weapons to the Ayatollah, hiding money in Swiss bank accounts, running
cocaine, and supporting a war in Central America on peasants who were being held down through
violence by the Samoza family. Iran Contra also showed the rise of current right wing Fox News
type of propaganda in the form of Ollie North who was a real crooked shit but the disinformation was
sold about him that in reality he was a patriotic American fighting the good fight.
Bill Barr was the reason that Trump was never held accountable for Russia too. Why should anyone
believe one word out of his mouth?
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