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He is the most dangerous man in America right now. And it’s not close.

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Just brutal.   

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slow gridlocky government has been leading us to where we are for 25 years now. 

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The most corrupt AG in history isn't corrupt enough for Trump. It doesn't matter how corrupt you are, Trump will keep pushing you to see just how corrupt you're willing to be in service to him. When he finds a line you won't cross, he'll stab you in the back. 

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/06/politics/william-barr-considering-leaving-office/index.html

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Attorney General William Barr is considering leaving his post before January 20, the day President Donald Trump leaves office, a source with knowledge of the matter confirmed to CNN.

The source confirmed that Barr is not happy with Trump, writing that Barr "is not someone who takes bullying and turns the other cheek!"

"He has not made a final decision," the source said.

every single one of these spineless  pussies can get fucked. 

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1 hour ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

So the dude who's appointment runs out in a month is going to quit before he gets fired?  Who gives a shit.

What's scary is it could get a lot worse than Barr, even he has boundaries. They could bring a guy who is one part dumb one part corrupt in Matthew Whitaker for the last 30 days to literally do Trump's bidding, Trump could point at people he wants arrested and held without bond type shit. 

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16 minutes ago, immamac said:

AG has to be confirmed. You can't just put in some wackjob for 30 days and have them do anything other than general admin stuff. 

THIS. BUT ALSO THIS:

3 minutes ago, Underdog said:

"Acting" AG

Not like Trump hasn't done this before, and provided it's someone suitably unfit, derelict, and loyalist to the President and not the Constitution, the remainder of the DOJ staff that haven't already either signed the Trump oath or were hanging on in some hope of being a counter balance will resign, leaving the DOJ in disarray. Embedding more whackjobs in during the inter-rim is very on brand for the Trump Org and whaddya gonna do about it?

The whole, "Biden will just fire everybody" is not going to happen to the embedded staffers. It just isn't. Even if Trump and Family die off or disappear, they will wait until the next GOP fascist arrives.

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Exactly.  His gaze and jaw shifted markedly at those last two seconds.  I'm sure a committee seating chart is readily available.  Maybe as the Proud Boys?  

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Die Glocke.  aka "The Bell", Miller named the plan after the phantom super-weapon the Nazis were going to deploy on their enemies in the waining days of WWII to repel the three front invasion of the Fatherland.  In the end, it was reduced to a "National Redoubt" campaign, and even then it was mainly a few repels of the invading Soviets coupled with lots and lots of mass surrenders.  Trumpers, with today's EC Vote, are about to start seriously entertaining their "National Redoubt" strategies as they continue to get boxed in.  

543 hours.  5-4-3.  That's how any hours remain until Congress counts the EC Votes on the Capitol Floor.  That's how long you Trumpers to have to take to the hills to wage your guerrilla war on Democracy.  Count it down, 5...4...3.  That's all the hours left.  Sure Inauguration Day won't be for another two weeks after that, but the system will lock you and Donald out in those interim two weeks.  Once Mike Pence has to publicly announce as President of the Senate that 306 votes have arrived and been certified for Joe Biden, nothing else can be done.  Nothing.  You think this charade the last 6 weeks was pointless, futility doesn't describe what any Trumper acting AG or personal lawyer could possibly do in those two weeks.  

1:00p-EST on 6 January.  The envelope is opened and counted and announced.  Take a cue from the Swiss, or Belgians, or even the Nazis...Plot your "National Redoubt" campaign now.  Time is of the essence.  A scared, cornered animal only has 5...4...3...543 hours.  Empires have been won or lost in less time.  But our Republican shall endure in that timeframe.  I'm feeling better about things with every passing hour...are you?  

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I also believe that it's likely he was fired and allowed to resign, but it remains possible that he stepped away on his own. If so, I'm not sure which is more unnerving about the possibility that Barr resigned because he didn't want to be around for what's coming next.

So, should I be freaking out about the fact that there's something coming next that he didn't want to be around for? Or should I be terrified that whatever it is Bill effing Barr wants nothing to do with it?

My insomnia and anxiety:

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I also believe that it's likely he was fired and allowed to resign, but it remains possible that he stepped away on his own. If so, I'm not sure which is more unnerving about the possibility that Barr resigned because he didn't want to be around for what's coming next.

So, should I be freaking out about the fact that there's something coming next that he didn't want to be around for? Or should I be terrified that whatever it is Bill effing Barr wants nothing to do with it?

I think those 100+ Republicans taking the side of Abbott in the SCOTUS case are their last gasp.

Barr was out the door the moment it was reported that he saw Trump as the loser.  Hell, he had a foot out the door when he publicly said the elections were secure.  This is pure pettiness.

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14 hours ago, cam4mav said:

I want to know who he was looking dead in the eyes at to end that video. That was definitely an "i'm talking about you motherfucker" look

I've never noticed this before, but yea, that was a straight-up call out to someone.  He stared them down and even nodded his head a few times, like, yea, I'm talking to you holmes.  Was it Linda Graham?  Damn.

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How in the world did our country allow these people in charge? What a disaster.

I wish there was a concentrated compilation of every bit of trash with which he was involved or of which he had knowledge--going all the way back to Bush. I'm sure he's covered his tracks, but it would likely be simultaneously enraging and compelling.

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Judge orders release of Trump obstruction memo, accuses Barr of being 'disingenuous'

 

A federal judge has ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release a March 2019 legal memo clearing former President Trump of potential obstruction of justice charges following the Mueller investigation, with the judge accusing former Attorney General William Barr and agency lawyers of deceiving the public.

District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Monday ordered the DOJ to release the legal memo within two weeks in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the liberal watchdog group Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (CREW).

The DOJ had argued in court that the full memo — portions of which have already been released — should be withheld because it falls under exceptions to the public records law for attorney-client privilege and deliberative government decisionmaking.

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But Jackson said on Monday that those claims were not consistent with her own review of the unredacted memo or the timeline revealed by internal emails among top Justice Department officials.

Jackson, who was appointed to the federal district court in Washington, D.C., by former President Obama, wrote in a scathing 41-page decision that "not only was the Attorney General being disingenuous then, but DOJ has been disingenuous to this Court with respect to the existence of a decision-making process that should be shielded by the deliberative process privilege."

"The agency’s redactions and incomplete explanations obfuscate the true purpose of the memorandum, and the excised portions belie the notion that it fell to the Attorney General to make a prosecution decision or that any such decision was on the table at any time," she added.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/06/william-barrs-trump-administration-attorney-general/619298/

 

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Donald trump is a man consumed with grievance against people he believes have betrayed him, but few betrayals have enraged him more than what his attorney general did to him. To Trump, the unkindest cut of all was when William Barr stepped forward and declared that there had been no widespread fraud in the 2020 election, just as the president was trying to overturn Joe Biden’s victory by claiming that the election had been stolen.

 

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In a series of interviews with me this spring, Barr spoke, for the first time, about the events surrounding his break with Trump. I have also spoken with other senior officials in the Trump White House and Justice Department, who provided additional details about Barr’s actions and the former president’s explosive response. Barr and those close to him have a reason to tell his version of this story. He has been widely seen as a Trump lackey who politicized the Justice Department. But when the big moment came after the election, he defied the president who expected him to do his bidding.

 

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Barr’s betrayal came on December 1, over lunch in the attorney general’s private dining room with Michael Balsamo, a Justice Department beat reporter at the Associated Press. Also in attendance were the DOJ chief of staff, Will Levi, and spokesperson Kerri Kupec. Balsamo was not told the reason for the invitation. When Barr dropped his bombshell between bites of salad, he mumbled, and Balsamo wasn’t sure that he had caught what the attorney general had said.

 

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“Just to be crystal clear,” Balsamo asked, “are you saying—”

“Sir, I think you better repeat what you just said,” Kupec interjected.

“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” Barr repeated. This time Balsamo heard him.

 

Balsamo’s story appeared on the AP newswire shortly after lunch ended: “Disputing Donald Trump’s persistent baseless claims, Attorney General William Barr declared Tuesday the U.S. Justice Department had uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 election.”

The story blew a hole in the president’s claims. Nobody seriously questioned Barr’s conservative credentials or whether he had been among Trump’s most loyal cabinet secretaries. His conclusion sent a definitive message that the effort to overturn the election was without merit.

Barr told me that Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell had been urging him to speak out since mid-November. Publicly, McConnell had said nothing to criticize Trump’s allegations, but he told Barr that Trump’s claims were damaging to the country and to the Republican Party. Trump’s refusal to concede was complicating McConnell’s efforts to ensure that the GOP won the two runoff elections in Georgia scheduled for January 5.

To McConnell, the road to maintaining control of the Senate was simple: Republicans needed to make the argument that with Biden soon to be in the White House, it was crucial that they have a majority in the Senate to check his power. But McConnell also believed that if he openly declared Biden the winner, Trump would be enraged and likely act to sabotage the Republican Senate campaigns in Georgia. Barr related his conversations with McConnell to me. McConnell confirms the account.

“Look, we need the president in Georgia,” McConnell told Barr, “and so we cannot be frontally attacking him right now. But you’re in a better position to inject some reality into this situation. You are really the only one who can do it.”

“I understand that,” Barr said. “And I’m going to do it at the appropriate time.”

On another call, McConnell again pleaded with Barr to come out and shoot down the talk of widespread fraud.

“Bill, I look around, and you are the only person who can do it,” McConnell told him.

Levi, the Justice Department chief of staff, had also been urging Barr to contradict Trump’s assertions. But Barr had said nothing publicly to indicate that he disagreed with the president about the election. In fact, the week after the election, he gave prosecutors the green light to investigate “substantial allegations” of vote irregularities that “could potentially impact the outcome” of the election. The move overturned long-standing policy that the Justice Department does not investigate voter fraud until after an election is certified. The theory behind the policy is that the department’s responsibility is to prosecute crimes, not to get involved in election disputes. Barr’s reversal of the policy was interpreted by some as a sign that he might use the department to help Trump overturn the election.

 

But Barr told me he had already concluded it was highly unlikely that evidence existed that would tip the scales in the election. He had expected Trump to lose and therefore was not surprised by the outcome. He also knew that at some point, Trump was going to confront him about the allegations, and he wanted to be able to say that he had looked into them and that they were unfounded. So, in addition to giving prosecutors approval to open investigations into clear and credible allegations of substantial fraud, Barr began his own, unofficial inquiry into the major claims that the president and his allies were making.

“My attitude was: It was put-up or shut-up time,” Barr told me. “If there was evidence of fraud, I had no motive to suppress it. But my suspicion all the way along was that there was nothing there. It was all bullshit.”

The Department of Justice ended up conducting no formal investigations of voter fraud, but as part of Barr’s informal review, he asked the U.S. Attorney in Michigan about Trump’s claim that mysterious “ballot dumps” in Detroit had secured Biden’s victory in the state.

As proof of fraud, Trump’s allies had pointed to videos showing boxes filled with ballots arriving at the TCF Center, in Detroit, to be counted after the 8 p.m. deadline for votes to be cast. But Barr quickly found that there was a logical explanation. It had to do with how the 662 precincts in Wayne County, home to Detroit, tabulate their votes. “In every other county, they count the ballots at the precinct, but in Wayne County, they bring them into one central counting place. So the boxes are coming in all night. The fact that boxes are coming in—well, that’s what they do.”

Furthermore, Trump performed better against Biden in Detroit than he had against Hillary Clinton in 2016. Biden received 1,000 fewer votes in Detroit than Clinton had, and Trump received 5,000 more votes than he had four years earlier. Trump didn’t lose Michigan because of “illegal” ballots cast in Detroit. He lost Michigan because Biden beat him badly in the suburbs.

Barr also looked into allegations that voting machines across the country were rigged to switch Trump votes to Biden votes. He received two briefings from cyber-security experts at the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. “We realized from the beginning it was just bullshit,” Barr told me, noting that even if the machines somehow changed the count, it would show up when they were recounted by hand. “It’s a counting machine, and they save everything that was counted. So you just reconcile the two. There had been no discrepancy reported anywhere, and I’m still not aware of any discrepancy.”

After the lunch with Balsamo, Barr and Levi went to the White House for a previously scheduled meeting with Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. After talking briefly with Meadows, they went upstairs to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone’s office. As they were conferring, one of the counsel’s aides knocked on the door and told Cipollone that the president wanted to see him and then, pointing to Barr, the aide said, “And he is looking for you.”

Barr, Levi, and Cipollone walked to the president’s personal dining room near the Oval Office. Trump was sitting at the table. Meadows was sitting next to him with his arms crossed; the White House adviser Eric Herschmann stood off to the side. The details of this meeting were described to me by several people present. One told me that Trump had “the eyes and mannerism of a madman.”

He went off on Barr.

“I think you’ve noticed I haven’t been talking to you much,” Trump said to him. “I’ve been leaving you alone.”

Barr later told others that the comment was reminiscent of a line in the movie Dr. Strangelove, in which the main character, Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, says, “I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.” Trump, Barr thought, was saying that he had been denying him his essence.

Trump brought up Barr’s AP interview.

“Did you say that?”

“Yes,” Barr responded.

“How the fuck could you do this to me? Why did you say it?”

“Because it’s true.”

The president, livid, responded by referring to himself in the third person: “You must hate Trump. You must hate Trump.”

 

Barr thought that the president was trying to control himself, but he seemed angrier than he had ever seen him. His face was red. Barr’s AP interview was dominating every cable news channel except the one Trump was watching. The television in the room was tuned to the right-wing, pro-Trump network One America News, which was broadcasting a committee hearing of the Michigan legislature. The hearing featured disproven allegations of massive election fraud, including the testimony of a woman named Melissa Carone, who had worked at the counting location in Detroit and told the committee, “Everything that happened at the TCF Center was fraud. Every single thing.” The next day, Carone would testify again, next to Rudy Giuliani, during which time she slurred her words and appeared to be drunk. (Carone later denied that she had been drunk.)

“They saw the boxes going in!” Trump yelled, referring to the stories about boxes of illegal ballots being counted.

“You know, Mr. President, there are 662 precincts in Wayne County,” Barr said. Trump seemed taken aback that he knew the exact number. “It’s the only county with all the boxes going to a central place, and you actually did better there this time around than you did last time. You keep on saying that the Department of Justice is not looking at this stuff, and we are looking at it in a responsible way. But your people keep on shoveling this shit out.”

As Trump ranted about other examples of fraud, Meadows continued to sit silently with his arms crossed, his posture suggesting that he, too, was upset by what Barr had done.

“You know, you only have five weeks, Mr. President, after an election to make legal challenges,” Barr said. “This would have taken a crackerjack team with a really coherent and disciplined strategy. Instead, you have a clown show. No self-respecting lawyer is going anywhere near it. It’s just a joke. That’s why you are where you are.”

Interestingly, Trump didn’t argue when Barr told him that his “clown show” legal team had wasted time. In fact, he said, “You may be right about that.”

After going through his litany of claims—stolen ballots, fake ballots, dead people voting, rigged voting machines—Trump switched to other grievances, shouting at Barr for failing to prosecute Biden’s son Hunter. “If that had been one of my kids, they would have been all over him!” he said. By the end of the meeting, Trump was doing almost all of the talking. Why hadn’t Barr released John Durham’s report on the origins of the Russia investigation before the election? Why hadn’t he prosecuted former FBI Director James Comey? Trump was banging on the table. He said that Barr had been worthless.

As Barr left, he was unsure whether he still had a job. Had Trump just fired him? And if not, shouldn’t he quit? Why remain attorney general after what the president had just said to him? His status had been left up in the air.

The next morning, Barr received a call from Meadows. “I think there’s a way through this,” Meadows told him. He could prevent Trump from firing him, but he wanted an assurance from Barr that he wouldn’t resign. “Are you willing to stay?” Meadows asked.

“I’m not going to sandbag you,” Barr said. “I will give you a warning if I’m going to leave, and No. 2, I’ll stay as long as I’m needed.”

Barr almost immediately began to regret his decision to stay. His statement on election fraud did nothing to deter Trump, who was now listening, almost exclusively, to Giuliani and others outside his administration. They were telling him that he was still going to win the election.

Two weeks later, Barr went down to the White House to tell the president that he planned to resign before the end of the year. It was their first meeting since their confrontation. To defuse the tension, Barr had written an effusive resignation letter, which he handed to the president when he got to the Oval Office. The letter praised Trump’s record and played directly into his complaints about how he had been treated by Democrats, saying his efforts “had been met by a partisan onslaught against you in which no tactic, no matter how abusive and deceitful, was out of bounds.”

Trump read the letter while Barr was sitting across from him. “This is pretty good,” he said.

 

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16 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Kind of numb to it all, but god damn, we just had a president who expected the Vice President, the DOJ, and the Supreme Court to just make him dictator. And was shocked when it didn't happen. 

Trump must have believed that every President before him tried this shit and failed, or they were just too stupid not to try (or by the virtue of being stupid, failed).  


 

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