Barr rips into trump tweets

Plasmaball · February 13, 2020, 11:26pm

Gaslighting because trolling

enki · February 13, 2020, 11:32pm

Yes

Yes. Do you know why he wasn’t charged?

JayJay · February 13, 2020, 11:32pm

So you think the Trump-appointed attorneys who recommended the initial sentence for Stone have been corrupted by the Deep State underlings beneath him?

conan · February 13, 2020, 11:32pm

Thank you…only one that answered me.

Now what was done about it?

hwyflier · February 13, 2020, 11:34pm

Bar can’t do what job if Trump tweets?

Ignore sentencing guidelines that apply to everyone but Trump’s friends?

conan · February 13, 2020, 11:34pm

If he came through the system yes. You don’t get promoted unless you have the right attitude/philosophy.

JayJay · February 13, 2020, 11:35pm

Watching Barr now.

He is totally lying when he said he didn’t talk to the President before overriding his prosecutors.

JayJay · February 13, 2020, 11:35pm

Yep…it’s never Trump.

They’re all Deep Staters.

The poor guy…

conan · February 13, 2020, 11:35pm

Really…do you have lie detector test hooked up to him?

ImRightYoureWrong · February 13, 2020, 11:36pm

Ever notice how Trump can’t ever saying anything to people’s faces. Just tweets at 3am.

JayJay · February 13, 2020, 11:36pm

Yep.

I did as a matter of fact.

TommyLucchese · February 13, 2020, 11:36pm

Lol he doesn’t even fire people. He tells people everything so fine and then tweets when they leave or tells someone else to do it.

NebraskaFootball · February 13, 2020, 11:36pm

Around 10,000 cases in Federal Court just in the last year. How many sentencing recommendations were overruled by the AG? One? Only one you say? And it happens to be the Presidents longest serving ally, compatriot, friend, and arguably the pivotal person who convinced Trump to seek election as a Republican in 2016? Huh. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

conan · February 13, 2020, 11:36pm

Good thing I have my boots on.

TommyLucchese · February 13, 2020, 11:37pm

No way Trump is gonna stand for anyone telling him not to do anything even if it leads to mass resignations at Justice.

NebraskaFootball · February 13, 2020, 11:38pm

NebraskaFootball:

conan:

Then why are you bitching about Trump trying to influence CoJ?

You’re conflating two distinctly different things.

Trump is the head of the Executive Branch, including the DOJ, and has been for years now. It’s his people. They work at his pleasure. And he has the authority to request they do what he seeks, as long as there is no corrupt intent. If crimes were committed by Clapper or McCabe, then it is Trump’s prerogative to demand his DOJ act. Something he has failed to do and is the source of your alleged vitriol. Of which I actually doubt.

Then there is the issue of Stone. Someone who has gone through the full process and had his crimes adjudicated. He was found guilty by a jury of his peers. Sentencing guidelines and recommendations are established and were submitted. Trump and/or his AG acting on his behalf to undercut a fully adjudicated conviction, in order to show leniency to one of his friends, reeks of corrupt intent, and deserves to be scrutinized.

I have to assume you are quite capable of seeing the difference here and are no longer going to falsely try to conflate the two scenarios.

Which leads us back to whom your ire should be directed. All of the crimes you believe to have occurred have been prevented from progressing by the Trump administration. No one else. The man you fully support is the head of this all. It’s because of him that you feel as if there is a two-tier justice system.

So, with how upset you are at this travesty, will you continue to support him and defend him? Or will you show us all once and for all what many of us already believe to be the case?

@conan

Don’t be scared to reply to this. Please. I think this is important.

Plasmaball · February 13, 2020, 11:41pm

Well duh…

Plasmaball · February 13, 2020, 11:42pm

He needs stone for the 2020 election so he can steal it.

WorldWatcher · February 13, 2020, 11:43pm

The point (again) is that Trump already fired the Obama US Attorney’s. Any that are still there were appointed by TRUMP.

And to repeat:

Point #2 You said “Starting with clearing everyone out that was hired by Obama administration.” There are 100,000 employees in the DOJ. The thought that Barr would fire them all is ridiculous just on shear numbers and on top of that the vast majority are career employees who served under the Obama Administration (and prior Republican administrations) and CAN’T be fired on a political whim. It would be against the law.
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conan · February 13, 2020, 11:48pm

Again you’re not going to clean up the joint by only releasing 46 people out of 100 thousand.

What congress should have done when it was repugs hands, they should have cut their funds by 2/3rds.

You do understand I’ve been advocating that for decade plus now.

Trump budget purposed gives homeland security more money. I would cut that 2/3rds as well. I understand that’s the job of congress thou.

If repugs are seriously about cutting spending and giving power back to the people that’s where I would start.

Wouldn’t you?