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After Trump’s Attacks on Justice Dept., Barr Says He Will Not ‘Be Bullied’

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The attorney general said that the president’s attacks on prosecutors’ handling of his friend Roger Stone’s sentencing undermine the legal system and the Justice Department.

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.”

Mr. Barr’s remarks were aimed at containing the fallout from the department’s botched handling of its sentencing recommendation for Mr. Trump’s longtime friend Roger J. Stone Jr., who was convicted of seven felonies in a bid to obstruct a congressional investigation that threatened the president.

Mr. Trump’s criticisms “make it impossible for me to do my job and to assure the courts and the prosecutors in the department that we’re doing our work with integrity,” Mr. Barr said.

He added, “It’s time to stop the tweeting about Department of Justice criminal cases.”
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Hmm. What to make of this?

I say it's B.S. Let's review the record:

January 30, 2020, Tim Shay, long-time advisor to Barr, was named interim USA for Wash. D.C. which oversees the:

--Mike Flynn case. Recently changed its recommendation from jail time to probation. Very, very unusual.
--Stone case. Changed recommendation to less time. Very, very unusual.
--James Comey leak case. Based on very thin predicate.
--Andrew McCabe case. Grand jury declined to indict, but DOJ hasn't moved to clear him. Very, very unusual.
--Eric Prince case referred by Intel Committee for lying to Congress. No movement.

And now Barr claims to be innocent as a rose and upset at Trump's "meddling?" Color me skeptical. If anything, Barr feels that Trump is being too blatant about it, and desires the corruption of the Justice Department to continue a little less visibly.
 
jpn said:
Hmm. What to make of this?

I say it's B.S. Let's review the record:

January 30, 2020, Tim Shay, long-time advisor to Barr, was named interim USA for Wash. D.C. which oversees the:

--Mike Flynn case. Recently changed its recommendation from jail time to probation. Very, very unusual.
--Stone case. Changed recommendation to less time. Very, very unusual.
--James Comey leak case. Based on very thin predicate.
--Andrew McCabe case. Grand jury declined to indict, but DOJ hasn't moved to clear him. Very, very unusual.
--Eric Prince case referred by Intel Committee for lying to Congress. No movement.

And now Barr claims to be innocent as a rose and upset at Trump's "meddling?" Color me skeptical. If anything, Barr feels that Trump is being too blatant about it, and desires the corruption of the Justice Department to continue a little less visibly.
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I agree. It's window dressing in an attempt to appear impartial when Barr is anything but impartial.
 
Is he an acting AG or are we about to get one.
 
Stooges gonna stooge.
 
MTAtech said:
I agree. It's window dressing in an attempt to appear impartial when Barr is anything but impartial.
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He may be looking for a way out while trying to save whatever shred of integrity of his reputation that he thinks he has.
 
I just watched the interview. I don't think he directly talked to Trump about any of these cases -- but he undoubtedly knows where Trump's interests lie.

I also don't buy into the idea that he would refuse an order by Trump to investigate a political opponent, because he is doing exactly that with Biden.

And, I'm not buying his claims about the "adjustment" to the sentencing request. He says that the night before, he discussed it with the attorneys, and it sounds like they were not going to specifically recommend 7-9 years but just list the circumstances and "leave it to the judge." It seems incredibly unlikely that four attorneys would be so enraged that they quit the case, and one quit the entire department, if that was the real sequence of events. That dog don't hunt.
 
jpn said:
Hmm. What to make of this?

I say it's B.S. Let's review the record:

January 30, 2020, Tim Shay, long-time advisor to Barr, was named interim USA for Wash. D.C. which oversees the:

--Mike Flynn case. Recently changed its recommendation from jail time to probation. Very, very unusual.
--Stone case. Changed recommendation to less time. Very, very unusual.
--James Comey leak case. Based on very thin predicate.
--Andrew McCabe case. Grand jury declined to indict, but DOJ hasn't moved to clear him. Very, very unusual.
--Eric Prince case referred by Intel Committee for lying to Congress. No movement.

And now Barr claims to be innocent as a rose and upset at Trump's "meddling?" Color me skeptical. If anything, Barr feels that Trump is being too blatant about it, and desires the corruption of the Justice Department to continue a little less visibly.
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Yeah, Barr isn't going to convince many people with that bull****. He had ALL FOUR of the Stone prosecution team leave the case and/or the department and resign. That sends a powerful signal those career people believed the case was improperly influenced. If Barr couldn't convince them it wasn't, that Barr didn't hang them out to dry and refuse to defend them with Trump, then that's still Barr's failure, and an indication he's a ****ty manager who doesn't have the trust of his team.

I think he was getting a bunch of blowback from across the ranks, and did this to try to contain it, but I just don't think people are buying it.

FWIW, this is the typical BS from the NYT - "WASHINGTON — In an extraordinary rebuke of President Trump..." No, **** you NYT, doing exactly what the President wants done, getting publicly congratulated by POTUS for doing it, and otherwise carrying all the water Trump can load him up with, is not an extraordinary rebuke of POTUS. It's the equivalent of Sen. Collins and the rest of the cowardly sycophants in D.C. being "troubled" and "concerned" and then voting with Trump about 99 point ****ing 9 percent of the time.

What would be an "extraordinary rebuke" is Trump saying the Stone sentence is unfair, then Barr publicly backing his career prosecutors and refusing to budge on the recommendation. THAT is a rebuke. This after the fact whining about Trump is a pathetic attempt to redeem Barr's crap public image as nothing but Trump's errand boy, ass kissing sycophant, consigliere.
 
jpn said:
Hmm. What to make of this?

I say it's B.S. Let's review the record:

January 30, 2020, Tim Shay, long-time advisor to Barr, was named interim USA for Wash. D.C. which oversees the:

--Mike Flynn case. Recently changed its recommendation from jail time to probation. Very, very unusual.
--Stone case. Changed recommendation to less time. Very, very unusual.
--James Comey leak case. Based on very thin predicate.
--Andrew McCabe case. Grand jury declined to indict, but DOJ hasn't moved to clear him. Very, very unusual.
--Eric Prince case referred by Intel Committee for lying to Congress. No movement.

And now Barr claims to be innocent as a rose and upset at Trump's "meddling?" Color me skeptical. If anything, Barr feels that Trump is being too blatant about it, and desires the corruption of the Justice Department to continue a little less visibly.
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"actions speak louder than words"

Barr is trying to quiet the brewing discord and exodus from those under his charge.
 
Chomsky said:
"actions speak louder than words"
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Exactly. Listen to the trump supporters when they say "don't listen to what he says, watch what he does."

And if you do you will see a very long line corrupt behavior that goes against everything the DOJ was founded on.
 
LOL, the constant freak-outs from you guys must be exhausting. Do you ever sleep or get anything productive done?
 
Erod said:
LOL, the constant freak-outs from you guys must be exhausting. Do you ever sleep or get anything productive done?
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The reason you post the way you do and just insult people without addressing the topic is because you can't defend the behavior so you side track the discussion. It's very obvious.
 
There has been a long standing WH/DOJ policy that the WH does not comment on specific DOJ trials and specific trial individuals to avoid the impression of favoritism and political verdicts.

Trump violated this policy with Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, and now with Roger Stone.

Anyone that read the initial 2018 Barr memo to the WH regarding presidential obstruction of justice (can't happen) realized that Barr would do/say whatever was necessary to replace Jeff Sessions as AG.

Barr is a heat-seeking missile aimed at the heart of democracy.
 
jpn said:
Hmm. What to make of this?

I say it's B.S. Let's review the record:

January 30, 2020, Tim Shay, long-time advisor to Barr, was named interim USA for Wash. D.C. which oversees the:

--Mike Flynn case. Recently changed its recommendation from jail time to probation. Very, very unusual.
--Stone case. Changed recommendation to less time. Very, very unusual.
--James Comey leak case. Based on very thin predicate.
--Andrew McCabe case. Grand jury declined to indict, but DOJ hasn't moved to clear him. Very, very unusual.
--Eric Prince case referred by Intel Committee for lying to Congress. No movement.

And now Barr claims to be innocent as a rose and upset at Trump's "meddling?" Color me skeptical. If anything, Barr feels that Trump is being too blatant about it, and desires the corruption of the Justice Department to continue a little less visibly.
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It's almost as if Barr is concerned about the appearance of impropriety. Regardless of Barr's intentions, it proves that we should all be fundamentally concerned about such appearances and that what Trump is doing is clearly wrong.
 
There is obviously some insanity going on in the DoJ right now, for Barr to come out with this.

I can't wait to see what it is.
 
jpn said:
Hmm. What to make of this?

I say it's B.S. Let's review the record:

January 30, 2020, Tim Shay, long-time advisor to Barr, was named interim USA for Wash. D.C. which oversees the:

--Mike Flynn case. Recently changed its recommendation from jail time to probation. Very, very unusual.
--Stone case. Changed recommendation to less time. Very, very unusual.
--James Comey leak case. Based on very thin predicate.
--Andrew McCabe case. Grand jury declined to indict, but DOJ hasn't moved to clear him. Very, very unusual.
--Eric Prince case referred by Intel Committee for lying to Congress. No movement.

And now Barr claims to be innocent as a rose and upset at Trump's "meddling?" Color me skeptical. If anything, Barr feels that Trump is being too blatant about it, and desires the corruption of the Justice Department to continue a little less visibly.
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How does willingly bending over with a jar of Vaseline equate to being bullied?
 
Rogue Valley said:
There has been a long standing WH/DOJ policy that the WH does not comment on specific DOJ trials and specific trial individuals to avoid the impression of favoritism and political verdicts.

Trump violated this policy with Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, and now with Roger Stone.

Anyone that read the initial 2018 Barr memo to the WH regarding presidential obstruction of justice (can't happen) realized that Barr would do/say whatever was necessary to replace Jeff Sessions as AG.

Barr is a heat-seeking missile aimed at the heart of democracy.
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Well said!
 
jpn said:
Hmm. What to make of this?
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Seems to me that it was his way of saying, "hey, I am not directly the presidents bitch. It's a coincident that I do exactly what he wants all the time."

This last incident with Stone made things very uncomfortable for Barr. That is all he was saying.
 
jpn said:
Hmm. What to make of this?

I say it's B.S. Let's review the record:

January 30, 2020, Tim Shay, long-time advisor to Barr, was named interim USA for Wash. D.C. which oversees the:

--Mike Flynn case. Recently changed its recommendation from jail time to probation. Very, very unusual.
--Stone case. Changed recommendation to less time. Very, very unusual.
--James Comey leak case. Based on very thin predicate.
--Andrew McCabe case. Grand jury declined to indict, but DOJ hasn't moved to clear him. Very, very unusual.
--Eric Prince case referred by Intel Committee for lying to Congress. No movement.

And now Barr claims to be innocent as a rose and upset at Trump's "meddling?" Color me skeptical. If anything, Barr feels that Trump is being too blatant about it, and desires the corruption of the Justice Department to continue a little less visibly.
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I am old enough to remember the blowback that came Nixon's way when he stuck his nose into the Charles Manson trial. In my opinion William Barr is one of the most despicable characters in government ever.
 
Erod said:
LOL, the constant freak-outs from you guys must be exhausting. Do you ever sleep or get anything productive done?
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What's productive about coming into a thread and your entire contribution is a drive by insult? The AG decided it was important to redeem his image as a Trump sycophant, so we're discussing that. If you don't want to discuss it, there's lot of other alternatives.
 
Hahahaha
 
Erod said:
LOL, the constant freak-outs from you guys must be exhausting. Do you ever sleep or get anything productive done?
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What I find fascinating is the cultists rationalizing of Trumps actions and words.

One must be of little substance to so do.
 
Rogue Valley said:
There has been a long standing WH/DOJ policy that the WH does not comment on specific DOJ trials and specific trial individuals to avoid the impression of favoritism and political verdicts.

Trump violated this policy with Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, and now with Roger Stone.

Anyone that read the initial 2018 Barr memo to the WH regarding presidential obstruction of justice (can't happen) realized that Barr would do/say whatever was necessary to replace Jeff Sessions as AG.

Barr is a heat-seeking missile aimed at the heart of democracy.
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Yup..
 
TheDoctorWasIn said:
There is obviously some insanity going on in the DoJ right now, for Barr to come out with this.

I can't wait to see what it is.
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What are the chances that Republicans have actually realized they released a pox on the US?
 
jpn said:
Hmm. What to make of this?

I say it's B.S. Let's review the record:

January 30, 2020, Tim Shay, long-time advisor to Barr, was named interim USA for Wash. D.C. which oversees the:

--Mike Flynn case. Recently changed its recommendation from jail time to probation. Very, very unusual.
--Stone case. Changed recommendation to less time. Very, very unusual.
--James Comey leak case. Based on very thin predicate.
--Andrew McCabe case. Grand jury declined to indict, but DOJ hasn't moved to clear him. Very, very unusual.
--Eric Prince case referred by Intel Committee for lying to Congress. No movement.

And now Barr claims to be innocent as a rose and upset at Trump's "meddling?" Color me skeptical. If anything, Barr feels that Trump is being too blatant about it, and desires the corruption of the Justice Department to continue a little less visibly.
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This bull**** is coordinated with Trump to make it look like he’s “pushing back”.
 
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