zantax
February 14, 2020, 3:31pm
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I must have missed your outrage when Obama frequently commented on ongoing criminal cases.
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Jezcoe
February 14, 2020, 3:40pm
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I didn’t but I can if I want to.
He totally did.
JayJay
February 14, 2020, 3:41pm
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Yeah I missed all those ones where he had close friends on trial and commented on reducing their sentences or it would be a tremendous miscarriage of justice.
Oh I know why I missed those.
Because they never happened.
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JayJay
February 14, 2020, 3:42pm
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This is the set-up for when it is revealed he did.
So he can say “Yeah I did it…so what?”
zantax
February 14, 2020, 3:51pm
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JayJay:
Yeah I missed all those ones where he had close friends on trial and commented on reducing their sentences or it would be a tremendous miscarriage of justice.
Oh I know why I missed those.
Because they never happened.
What statute is it that makes it illegal to comment when it involves someone you know personally but legal to comment if you don’t? And wasn’t Gates someone Obama knew? You remember him right?
Jezcoe
February 14, 2020, 4:01pm
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He was asked what his opinion was by the press.
But it is totally the same as tweeting it out there and hours later the Attorney General intervening.
zantax
February 14, 2020, 4:12pm
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Ok, show me the statute that makes it ok if you are responding to a question from the press but not if you bring it up on your own? Nope, it is either legal for a President to comment on ongoing cases or it isn’t.
zantax
February 14, 2020, 4:13pm
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WuWei:
JayJay:
Yeah I missed all those ones where he had close friends on trial and commented on reducing their sentences or it would be a tremendous miscarriage of justice.
Oh I know why I missed those.
Because they never happened.
Such short memories.
Obama opened the door releasing thousands of drug dealers from prison. For political reasons.
WuWei
February 14, 2020, 4:14pm
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With gun charges.
Why is the name Henry Louis Gates running through my mind?
zantax
February 14, 2020, 4:18pm
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I don’t know, blind to how its (d)ifferent I guess.
JayJay
February 14, 2020, 4:27pm
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A total miscasting of what happened that has been addressed already.
But the truth doesn’t match up to the Power Of The Scary Sound Bite that keeps Trump supporters angry at libs and scared at all the rapists and drug dealers the libs want to loose upon them.
Don’t both of them work for the American people?
zantax
February 14, 2020, 4:30pm
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JayJay:
A total miscasting of what happened that has been addressed already.
But the truth doesn’t match up to the Power Of The Scary Sound Bite that keeps Trump supporters angry at libs and scared at all the rapists and drug dealers the libs want to loose upon them.
Yeah, no idea why people go around scare mongering about democrats unleashing drug dealers on us. lol
Jezcoe
February 14, 2020, 4:30pm
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zantax:
Ok, show me the statute that makes it ok if you are responding to a question from the press but not if you bring it up on your own? Nope, it is either legal for a President to comment on ongoing cases or it isn’t.
The President was as asked about and commented on the incident with Gates one day after the charges were dropped on him.
There was no “ongoing case”
So please get out of here with trying to make a direct comparison.
It just doesn’t work.
Obama released drug dealers who release harsh sentences under mandatory minimum laws. Donald Trump ran a very powerful ad during the Super Bowl focused on one instance where he did the same thing. I don’t see anyone complaining about Trump releasing drug dealers… because the claim would be inappropriate in both cases.
And Obama’s numbers were in the hundreds, not the thousands.
WuWei
February 14, 2020, 4:32pm
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Intervened reducing established sentencing guidelines.
With gun charges.
WuWei
February 14, 2020, 4:39pm
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H_Arendt:
Reference please
Do a search. I posted it a long time ago. Picked quite a few at random at looked at the charges.
Bodecea
February 14, 2020, 4:40pm
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H_Arendt:
William Barr Says He Will Not 'Be Bullied' in Response to Trump's Attacks - The New York Times
For those who cannot get beyond the paywall.
" WASHINGTON — In an extraordinary rebuke of President Trump, Attorney General William P. Barr said on Thursday that Mr. Trump’s attacks on the Justice Department had made it “impossible for me to do my job” and asserted that “I’m not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody.”
Mr. Barr has been among the president’s most loyal allies and denigrated by Democrats as nothing more than his personal lawyer but publicly challenged Mr. Trump in a way that no other sitting cabinet member has.
“I’m not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody,” Mr. Barr said in an interview with ABC News . “And I said, whether it’s Congress, newspaper editorial board, or the president, I’m going to do what I think is right. I cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me.”
Someone explain this please. Trump has tweeted attacks on the prosecutors, the judge and jury in the Roger Stone case. Barr responded by reducing the recommended sentence below the federal sentencing guidelines to please Trump. All four prosecutors at DOJ resigned in protest.
Isn’t this a bit like closing the barn door after the cows have left?
If Barr is trying to salvage his reputation outside of the MAGA crowd… ain’t gonna happen.
Hard to be sneaky about getting around the law when your orange boss keeps giving away the game on Twitter.
