Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/06/trump-pushed-ag-barr-to-hold-p.html
Even Bill Barr knew it was dumb
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So I am actually surprised there is something Barr will not do to brown nose the hairpiece.
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[Current occupant of the White House] is breathtakingly stupid enough not to know right from wrong, and every Republican backs his every move.
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Barrâs got his back. It probably just isnât the right time for that defense yet, but it will eventually happen.
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Canât Trumpy go a single day without comitting some abuse of power, obstruction of justice, or some other high crime and misdemeanor? WTF?
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Huh, so that slimeball has a limit of how low heâll stoop after all.
Perhaps Barr finally figured out that he has more on Trump than Trump has on him.
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You are essentially asking him not to rise to the awesome responsibilities of his office,
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Iâm trying to imagine what this looks like in the eyes of his republican senate enablers. They must know heâs never going to clean up his act, its going to be like this until the day heâs hauled off.
I can only imagine its all-or nothing. Theyâve got to all go along with it, right up until no one goes along with it.
âŚbut then, I never imagined he would last this long, so Iâm kinda disqualified by now.
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This is no worse than what Barr did for him re. the Mueller report summary. What is different is this time Barr sees trump going down.
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$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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Barr must have some inside info that Justice RBG has a good prognosis after the most recent surgery and will likely outlast Trumpâs Presidency. If thatâs the case, he wonât get the Supreme Court nomination he was promised, which means now he has to keep himself out of jail.
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(I think I copied this from here, so thanks fellow bbâer!!)
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âThe amazing thing isnât that Trump would make this wildly corrupt request but that his fixer Bill Barr wouldnât oblige him.â
That really is the amazing bit. Barr has shown what heâs willing to do with the Mueller report (and a whole lot of other things), so itâs surprising he wouldnât be overtly corrupt again here (in the most obvious way). There must be a strategic reason heâs not willing to needlessly debase himself yet again.
Though it sounds like Barr has already done so much for Trump wrt. Ukraine - conspicuously ignoring all the reports of crimes going on, for example. (Iâm sure weâll find out even more ways Barr has already covered for Trump as time goes on.)
Given how much Barr has been covering for Trump, just in this situation, Iâm not that optimistic this is why. I wonder if he just didnât figure it simply wasnât necessary to say anything at all (so why complicate the issue?). The Republicans are uniformly moving from insisting there was no âquid pro quoâ (i.e. extortion) to all but literally sticking their fingers in the ears and shouting âla la la la, I canât hear youâ now that the evidence for exactly that is out. I suppose Barr figures either they wonât do anything (or, unlikely, they will) and nothing he says will make any difference, so strategically doing nothing (publicly, anyways) is safest for all.
Fingers crossed!
Edit:
So Barr has basically been an active part of the conspiracy, and after being asked to say that POTUS broke no laws, he had the DOJ spokeswoman make that claim. So⌠yeah, heâs not holding back here because what was asked of him was âtoo much;â heâs rolling in the filth:
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Well, sure. Loyalty to Trump so far, has been the same as loyalty to their donor base. But that can change in an instant.
Letâs be honest, this isnât âthatâs so crazy even my ethics wonât stoop that lowââŚthis is âThatâs so crazy that I WOULD GET SENT TO PRISON if I did thatâ.
Barr is playing CYA, he didnât suddenly find his ethical compass.
Oh, he could easily stomach it, but heâs stuffed right now, and this wasnât exactly âwaffer-thinâ.
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No
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Barr is reportedly going to be releasing an anti-Mueller Report report in the T-Giving time frame.
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its changing now. Sondland realized he was wearing the patsy hat and he squealed, theyâll try to move it to somebody else now - musical chairs
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