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AG Barr to give Thursday morning press conference on Mueller report

Gina said:
Was he trying to say that the Mueller report addressed Trump’s frustration? How would Mueller even know that Trump was frustrated or why? He never spoke to Trump.
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Gosh, maybe Mueller read in the news that Trump was concerned about (frustated over?) a "witch hunt". How coould the appointment of a special council to investigate them and their campaign staff (for alleged criminal activity) and calls for impeachment possibly be considered frustrating?
 
Napoleon said:
I find his presser to be dishonest at best. In particular, I find his assertion that releasing or conspiring to release illegally acquired documents (Trump Tower meeting) is not a crime in and of itself unless the party directly participated in the theft to be contrary to DOJ practice even within the context of this investigation (Roger Stone indictment).
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There is nothing in the Trump tower communications to indicate that any information that would be exchanged was acquired illegally. That is a hobgoblin of your own mind that you have inserted into the story.

What Trump Jr. was looking for, and didn't get, was precisely what Hillary Clinton PAID FOR and was distributed liberally around Washington.
 
Gina said:
Threatening to end the investigation is not full cooperation. Constantly hacking at the investigator in public. That’s not cooperation. He was trying to hamper Mueller saying the investigation should never have begun. Full cooperation is staying quite and not constantly maligning Mueller and holding a metaphorical sword over his head.
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Absolute rubbish,

You can VEHEMENTLY disagree with something, and still cooperate.....
 
jmotivator said:
Try being under federal investigation for 2 years for something you didn't do and see how frustrated you get.
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There's never justification for committing crime. I'm surprised you're using this defense.
 
TamleeB said:
Once again, you cannot carry on an adult conversation, and instead revert back to childish insults. Its ok....I understand. Let me know what you think of the redacted report when its released in the afternoon. I am interested to hear if you are......satisfied.
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Wow! I knew you guys were allergic to education but I didn't know it was this bad.
 
Lutherf said:
It is kind of a waste of time. The press and the lefties in congress are going to say whatever they feel like saying anyway and anything he does say is going to be treated as if it's a lie and obstruction of justice and collusion and whatever else Don Lemon and Rachael Maddow can come up with.

Oh, I almost forgot, his press conference is racist too.
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You got to admit that it was complete BS having his "press conference" before releasing the report. FSM forbid he give reporters the opportunity to READ the report, and ask INFORMED questions. Instead he made himself "available" before release. What an asshole.
 
Chomsky said:
There's never justification for committing crime. I'm surprised you're using this defense.
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What crime? It is perfectly reasonable to be frustrated by being under investigation for 2 years for something you didn't do. Your confusion stems from your presumption of guilt when CLEARLY he was not.
 
JasperL said:
You got to admit that it was complete BS having his "press conference" before releasing the report. FSM forbid he give reporters the opportunity to READ the report, and ask INFORMED questions. Instead he made himself "available" before release. What an asshole.
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Why? Comey gave a press conference to announce no charges against Hillary and you folks were perfectly fine with that. :roll:

Speaking of which, where is that report and why wasn't it released to the public?
 
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JasperL said:
You got to admit that it was complete BS having his "press conference" before releasing the report. FSM forbid he give reporters the opportunity to READ the report, and ask INFORMED questions. Instead he made himself "available" before release. What an asshole.
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No, he cleared up the redactions, how they were labeled, no executive privilege etc, there was stuff in there that was nonsense, but you are acting like he won't be available AFTER the report is released, that he's not testifying to Congress..
 
HumblePi said:
Thank you @akyron for posting the complete Barr statement.

I would challenge this bolded excerpt from the Barr press conference. This is absolutely a lie on it's face. Let's start with the firing of James Comey and boasting to the Russians in the Oval Office and to Lester Holt that he fired Comey to stop the investigation. Okay so that's point #1

Second point is that despite Barr's assertion that the White House cooperated with the Special Counsel's investigation, there's a tiny matter of how vehemently Trump and his lawyers fought Trump's cooperation with Mueller's investigation as far a appearing before Mueller to give a statement, as far as which questions they would agree to answering - and only in writing. This took months of back and forth between Trump and his lawyers and the Mueller investigators to hammer it out that there would be a limited number of questions and those question must not have anything to do with the area of obstruction of justice. Rudy Giuliani, had said repeatedly that president would not answer Mueller’s questions on possible obstruction of justice. That's not being 'fully cooperative' by any stretch of the imagination.

William Barr's statement that he believed the campaign was 'spied on' is truly one of the most blatant indications that he is totally in the tank for Trump. Using the word 'spying' by the FBI is simply a ludicrous term to use for court authorized surveillance.

The biggest error on the part of Robert Mueller was not subpoenaing Donald Trump to give his statement.
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It is interesting that you seem to think that firing 1 guy (currently under criminal referral no less) out of an institution that has over 30k people would stop or even slow down any investigation.

Rosenstein stands by memo on firing James Comey: 'I wrote it. I believe it'

"Deputy attorney general summarizes what he called ‘longstanding concerns’ over Comey’s handling of FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server"

Under what branch of government does the FBI reside? Just making sure you are aware.

Issuing a subpoena would have further exposed them to the criminal referrals they are currently undergoing and would not stand up in court without evidence.

I have a feeling Mueller does not like to lose.

This is going to get you riled up too.

 
HumblePi said:
Thank you @akyron for posting the complete Barr statement.

I would challenge this bolded excerpt from the Barr press conference. This is absolutely a lie on it's face. Let's start with the firing of James Comey and boasting to the Russians in the Oval Office and to Lester Holt that he fired Comey to stop the investigation. Okay so that's point #1

Second point is that despite Barr's assertion that the White House cooperated with the Special Counsel's investigation, there's a tiny matter of how vehemently Trump and his lawyers fought Trump's cooperation with Mueller's investigation as far a appearing before Mueller to give a statement, as far as which questions they would agree to answering - and only in writing. This took months of back and forth between Trump and his lawyers and the Mueller investigators to hammer it out that there would be a limited number of questions and those question must not have anything to do with the area of obstruction of justice. Rudy Giuliani, had said repeatedly that president would not answer Mueller’s questions on possible obstruction of justice. That's not being 'fully cooperative' by any stretch of the imagination.

William Barr's statement that he believed the campaign was 'spied on' is truly one of the most blatant indications that he is totally in the tank for Trump. Using the word 'spying' by the FBI is simply a ludicrous term to use for court authorized surveillance.

The biggest error on the part of Robert Mueller was not subpoenaing Donald Trump to give his statement.
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You're not going to trust anything that doesn't line up with you pre concluded narratives....your thought can now join the dust bin of other famous CTs like the Kennedy assasination, ant the moon landing being fake....lol

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jmotivator said:
Why? Comey gave a press conference to announce no charges against Hillary and you folks were perfectly fine with that. :roll:

Speaking of which, where is that report and why wasn't it released to the public?
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Hmm I still have not seen the underlying investigation materials for that.......
 
jmotivator said:
There is nothing in the Trump tower communications to indicate that any information that would be exchanged was acquired illegally. That is a hobgoblin of your own mind that you have inserted into the story.
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The timeline certainly indicates it and I recommend reading the indictment against Roger Stone.
 
Well that was a boring end to 2+ years of hyped up spying intrigue.
 
jmotivator said:
What crime? It is perfectly reasonable to be frustrated by being under investigation for 2 years for something you didn't do. Your confusion stems from your presumption of guilt when CLEARLY he was not.
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You seemed to be defending obstruction, in theory, by claiming there were extenuating factors. I was not arguing to whether there indeed was obstruction, but rather to your general absolution of it due to Trump being stressed-out or some-such.
 
Napoleon said:
The timeline certainly indicates it and I recommend reading the indictment against Roger Stone.
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The timeline that ends with no indictments for Trump? Yeah, that one.
 
HumblePi said:
He's not Trump's lawyer, HE'S THE LAWYER FOR THE UNITED STATES and all of us Americans. Trump has his own bevy of lawyers. William Barr took an oath to serve the American people, NOT TRUMP.

William Barr should be impeached along with Trump.
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Congress took an oath ti serve the american peopke too, not the DNC

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foolardi said:
Because as Scholarly Ken Starr said the other day " it is wise,prudent and proper to explain
the Mueller Report " before it's release .
Perfectly above board.Unlike the sneaky way Obama had his Agency's { Justice,IRS,V.A }
Hide and allow those working at them to Lie and pled the 5th.
Holder Lied under oath and was found guilty of Contempt of Congress.
Same thing with Lois Lerner,James Clapper and John Brennan.Plus incoming IRS
commissioner Koskinen.
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How does this sanctimonious hack have the guts to show his face in public, let alone spout the most incredible, back-flipping hypocrisy in the history of cable news? His alleged failure to do what is required by law as President at Baylor while his athletic department was burying cases of sexual assault should have been enough to run him out of the company of decent people. And his direction of the Great Penis Hunt of 1998 should have been enough to keep him from getting hired at Baylor in the first place. The decades-long pursuit of Bill and Hillary Clinton remains one of the worst things that ever happened to American electoral politics, and Ken Starr was the ringmaster of most of it.

When you've got the likes of Ken Starr out there making Trump's case, we've discovered that there is no bottom to the barrel.
 
Chomsky said:
You seemed to be defending obstruction, in theory, by claiming there were extenuating factors. I was not arguing to whether there indeed was obstruction, but rather to your general absolution of it due to Trump being stressed-out or some-such.
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No, there was no obstruction. Mueller tried for 2 years to find it, or illicit it, and came up with a pocket full of lint. Get over it.
 
Chomsky said:
You seemed to be defending obstruction, in theory, by claiming there were extenuating factors. I was not arguing to whether there indeed was obstruction, but rather to your general absolution of it due to Trump being stressed-out or some-such.
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More like different reasons for the actions taken OTHER than obstruction.....at least that's what I got from Barr's PC on that subject, and then he followed up with the answer, saying that wasn't him surmising, that it was in the report.
 
j-mac said:
You're not going to trust anything that doesn't line up with you pre concluded narratives....your thought can now join the dust bin of other famous CTs like the Kennedy assasination, ant the moon landing being fake....lol

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There is absolutely nothing in my comment that was 'pre-concluded' narrative. Everything I sited happened, that's just a fact.
 
JasperL said:
You got to admit that it was complete BS having his "press conference" before releasing the report. FSM forbid he give reporters the opportunity to READ the report, and ask INFORMED questions. Instead he made himself "available" before release. What an asshole.
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Agreed; but he will eventually be before Congress, as well as Mueller and Rosentein.
 
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