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Raster

(20,998 posts)
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 10:45 PM Apr 2019

Bill Barr's Not Your Average Trump Stooge. He's 100 Times Worse. Will Democrats Do Anything About It

Bob Mueller found out the hard way that the attorney general isn’t the average Trump stooge. Time is running dangerously short, and Democrats still don't get it.

Rick Wilson

When Bill Barr testifies before the Senate and House Judiciary Committees this week, don’t expect to hear the head of The Department of Justice answering questions from a co-equal branch of the American government.

That was the old, boring Washington, where the Attorney General was a guardian of the law and justice, not of Donald Trump’s political fortunes.

Bill Barr already showed us his cards with his performances declaring that the Mueller Report had exonerated Donald Trump—which the Washington Post reported Tuesday evening were delivered over the strenuous objections of Robert Mueller, who wrote to say that the A.G.'s “depiction of his findings failed to capture the ‘context, nature, and substance” of the probe.

It took that slap in the face for an experienced prosecutor to finally understand Barr is a bad actor who serves only Trump; Congress has no such excuse.

Barr is not an institutionalist. He is not a constitutionalist. He is a weapon crafted to protect and serve Donald Trump, using the protective coloration of a dull bureaucrat to carry out Dear Leader’s slow-motion subversion of the Republic.

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Bill Barr's Not Your Average Trump Stooge. He's 100 Times Worse. Will Democrats Do Anything About It (Original Post) Raster Apr 2019 OP
I was shocked, watoos Apr 2019 #1
Link? :-) hedda_foil May 2019 #2
 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
1. I was shocked,
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 10:53 PM
Apr 2019

2 Democrats called for him to resign, one of the Castros, and van Hollen.

Every Democrat should be calling for his resignation, or should we wait and have tea with him first?

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