democrats are getting frantic and truly desperate and I really fear for the physical safety of Attorney General Bill Barr. Just now Maria Bartiromo said that her sources tell her that Nadler will introduce a contempt of Congress resolution on Wednesday.
Eric Holder has taught us that such charges may be dismissed summarily and they have no meaning. Obama appointee Judge Amy Berman Jackson declined to hold Holder in contempt. Ater all, Holder was Obama’s wing man.
You will remember that no democrat had objections to Holder as Attorney General was acting as Obama’s personal attorney but now are offended by such accusations against Barr.
democrats are settting one trap after another for Barr. First they used Barr’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary committee to assail him, insult him and impugn his integrity. It was shameful. Then Jerry Nadler demanded that Barr appear before the House Judiciary Committee and Barr agreed. Then after Barr agreed to appear, Nadler changed the rules to allow staff members to put Barr on trial-something entirely unprecedented. Barr then decided against appearing.
Nadler no doubt has calculated Barr would refuse and then started barking about Contempt charges.
Bill Barr is going to unravel the conspiracy against Donald Trump and democrats know it. They know he will expose the false premises upon which the investigations are premised. They know he will get to the bottom of the obama administration spying on Trump and the obama FBI opening a counter intelligence investigation on Americans.
And let’s be clear- Barr did not lie.
The mindless, no-need-to-check-the-record allegation against Barr goes like this: The AG testified on April 9 that he had no idea why Special Counsel Mueller was upset over the way Barr’s March 24 letter described Mueller’s report; but, in fact, Barr knew exactly why Mueller was upset because he had received the latter’s March 27 letter complaining about Barr’s missive.
Now, here is the exchange on which the perjury allegation is based, with my italics highlighting key portions:
CRIST: Reports have emerged recently, General, that members of the special counsel’s team are frustrated at some level with the limited information included in your March 24th letter . . . that it does not adequately or accurately necessarily portray the report’s findings. Do you know what they’re referencing with that?
BARR: No, I don’t. I think — I think . . . I suspect that they probably wanted more put out, but, in my view, I was not interested in putting out summaries or trying to summarize because I think any summary, regardless of who prepares it, not only runs the risk of, you know, being under-inclusive or over-inclusive, but also, you know, would trigger a lot of discussion and analysis that really should await everything coming out at once. So I was not interested in a summary of the report. . . . I felt that I should state the bottom line conclusions and I tried to use Special Counsel Mueller’s own language in doing that.
When we look at the actual words of this exchange, Barr’s testimony is clearly accurate. And I don’t mean accurate in the hyper-technical, Clintonesque “depends on what the definition of is is” sense. I mean straightforward, unguarded, and evincing a willingness to volunteer information beyond what the question sought.
Crist did not ask a general question about Mueller’s reaction to Barr’s letter; he asked a specific question about the reaction of Mueller’s “team” to the Barr letter’s description of “the report’s findings.” Regarding the March 24 letter’s rendering of this bottom line — namely, Russia meddled, Trump did not collude, and Mueller failed to resolve the obstruction question — Barr said he did not know what Mueller’s staff was complaining about.
CNN even went so far as to deceptively alter a video to make Barr appear dishonest.
It is highly unlikely that any judge would grant a Contempt citation and if necessary SCOTUS would put an end to it, especially as all of this is based on lies and deceit.
Nadler now demands that Barr hand over the entire Mueller report in an unredacted fashion.
In a letter to Barr on Friday, Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler gave the Justice Department a 9 a.m. Monday deadline to respond to his letter affirming that it will comply with the subpoena — which called for Barr to supply the full Mueller report and underlying evidence to Congress by May 1 — or negotiate in good faith with the committee to reach a “reasonable accommodation.”
So far, DOJ has stiffed the committee, citing legal statutes that restrict the attorney general from handing over some information underlying the Mueller report to Congress and claiming the committee does not have a “legitimate” reason to demand such information.
By law, grand jury testimony is not to be made public. The Mueller team made its own redactions. So here’s the deal- if Barr releases the information, Nadler impeaches him for violating the law. If he doesn’t, Nadler hits Barr with a contempt charge.
democrats are demanding that Barr resign especially now that Barr is over the target.
None of this is likely to succeed and that brings us to a very dark place. When all of the legal avenues are exhausted, it leaves only the illicit ones.
Do I think that democrats will grow so desperate that they would resort to physically harm Barr?
You bet I do.
democrats are talking of “jail time” for Barr.
They’re talking about putting Barr in handcuffs.
Colbert threatens to “wring his (Barr’s) neck”.
They’re deranged and they have everything to lose.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
@Michael: Why is it stupid, Greg is not commenting on the context of the article. Barr did not lie, the MSM is lying and Greg is repeating MSM propaganda. He even thinks Mueller voted for Trump, calling him a lifetime Republican. Sheesh.
Have you finished your homework so you can effectively debate your ideas?
@kitt:
“not commenting on the context of the article” =/= “being a paid propaganda shill taking directions from Soros or somebody.”
@kitt:
That is not a comment on the context of the article. Are you therefore a paid propaganda shill?
@Michael: I guess you have not and therefore you are totally ignorant on the subject matter.
At the very least Greg can use a search engine and semi-intelligently discuss a thread.
Do you even know why Barr may need additional security?
@Nathan Blue:
That’s what Greggie Goebbels has been doing here since way back when Obama was running for prez. It was pretty funny back then because there was a news article talking about how the Obama campaign was paying pajama wearing basement dwellers to go on conservative web sites and pimp for Obama. I even asked him back then if he was being paid to argue for Obama, albeit miserably. He would not give me an answer.
Basically, you can visit the left (and far left) leaning websites and new sites and find what ever it is Greggie Goebbels is currently saying. But alas, he’s about as believable as Baghdad Bob.
@retire05:
Not giving an answer is not an indication that a person is guilty of whatever you’re suspecting he or she is guilty of. I’ve asked you many questions that you have pointedly refused to answer. All it means is that you didn’t answer the questions.
@Michael:
@Michael:
Of course it is, if we are to adhere to the left’s new policy of guilty until proven innocent (exonerated of a crime).
There is a reason for that; frankly, I find you ill informed, rude, and generally speaking, responding to you is a waste of time and energy.
From FOX News, May 9m 2019 — Trump hits back at Senate subpoena for Don Jr., says he’s ‘very surprised’
A political stunt, by the republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee?
@Greg:
Yes
The Republicans can be a bag of dicks just like the Democrats why we call it the uniparty.
He was hardly “hitting back” he was asked a question and answered it.
Ryan must be writing the headlines.
Useless clickbait.
I don’t believe the Senate Intelligence Committee falls into that category. As a group, they’re entirely capable of putting national interest and national security ahead of partisan considerations. I think they generally do. Consequently, they’re a clear and present danger to Donald Trump. He’s going to try to discredit them. He’ll have to work up to it gradually.
@Greg: Jr has nothing to do with national security, he runs the business while his dad runs the country.
The meeting he had when his daddy was campaigning has already been proven as fruitless and a set up by Hillarys dirt diggers.
The Russian hotel never got off of step 1.
Posers for the cameras.
@Greg:
Yes.
Oh. Were you aware they investigated Trump and also found him innocent of any wrongdoing? So, FBI, Sentate committee, Mueller… all could find nothing on Trump. Remind me again why the Democrats are still pushing more investigations?
@kitt:
Well, when you are desperate you keep going back to the same old false accusations to see if all the people have forgotten they are beating a dead… donkey.
@Deplorable Me: The head went rogue, but with all the spying that went on who knows why he did not accept the investigation as closed. He is dodging reporters. I would like the former lawn mower salesman now multi millionaire lose his seat on the panel.
@kitt, #112:
Trump Jr was attending secret meetings with connected Russians on matters he claimed Trump Sr knew nothing about. The original lie was that the Trump Tower meeting was about Russian adoptions, but it turns out it was about an offer to provide damaging information on Hillary Clinton. This didn’t simply go unreported; an effort was made to cover it up.
Also, Michael Cohen said he briefed Trump Jr 10 times on the Moscow project, which Trump Jr testified that he was only “peripherally aware” of. That certainly seems like more b.s. I suppose they want to clarify who’s lying about that.
Believe it or not, the Russian election meddling operation actually does have something to do with national security—particularly since the Trump administration has shown no inclination to look into it or prevent it. The possibility that Trump has been compromised by the Russians is also a national security issue. These issues are all part of the investigation that the Trump administration has been trying to impede for two years.
@Deplorable Me, #113:
I wasn’t aware that their investigation had ended. I believe Burr said around a month ago that they had found to evidence of collusion to date. The subpoean just issued to Donald Jr indicates they’re not finished with their investigation.
@Greg:
I guess you missed the memo; the meeting WAS supposed to be about adoptions, but the Russians changed the subject which ended the meeting. Also, before the Russians went into the meeting, they met with Hillary’s attorney and after the left the meeting, they met with Hillary’s attorney. Now, what does that sound like to you?
It has also been CONFIRMED that Trump knew nothing about the meeting.
Yeah, it does smack of BS, doesn’t it? Remind me again what Cohen is in jail for right now?
Obama didn’t think so, did he? Otherwise, he wouldn’t have stopped the government’s efforts to block Russian interference. Unless, of course, he know the Russians were helping Hillary.
Unless you want to admit that the CIA, FBI and Mueller are the most incompetent investigators on the planet, that is not only no longer an issue but it factually never was. Just because Hillary says the election was “stolen” from her (after all, it was owed her) does not make it true. In fact, hardly anything can make what Hillary says true. Ever.
Uh… yeah. That’s what happens when the investigation is over and the report is issued.
@Deplorable Me:
The Senate Intelligence Committee (to which Greg was referring) has neither finished its investigation nor written its report.
@Michael: https://thepoliticalinsider.com/senate-intelligence-committee-russia-collusion/
Back in February it seems they had a conclusion.
If Jr testifies, I hope they put it on CSpan. As everyone has spun to obstruction, this choice of witness is extremely weird.
@Michael:
See, this is a result of the media you liberals rely on do not report facts just because they don’t make them happy.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-has-uncovered-no-direct-evidence-conspiracy-between-trump-campaign-n970536
@Deplorable Me: The article you linked to says neither that the committee has finished its investigation nor that it has issued a report.
You really schooled me there by showing me how I was not incorrect.
@Michael: Can you link to where they were going to issue a report?
@Deplorable Me, #117:
This is a matter of public record. He’s serving 5 years in federal prison for doing a number of illegal things on behalf of and at the request of his employer, Donald J Trump, who is presently immune from federal prosecution because insightful people such as yourself made him so—with an assist from Vladimir Putin.
This is where following Trump’s orders can get you. Nothing Michael Cohen is now in prison for benefited Cohen to any degree whatsoever.
@Greg: MICHAEL COHEN was sentenced today to three years in prison for tax evasion, making false statements to a federally insured bank, and campaign finance violations. He also lied to congress on more than 1 occasion. When a person hires an attorney and wants services its because that person wants it to be done legally. Cohen is fully and totally responsible for his own stupidity. He is a documented liar, and a general POS.
The secret meeting propaganda you are trying to sell is tiresome was he suppose to print an ad in the paper, it was at Trump tower no one wore disguises or entered through secret doorways, get over that already. Your nose is out of joint cause the set-up failed, the spying failed, Mueller failed.
Cohen was Trump’s fixer and hush-money bag man.
Michael Cohen Allegedly Gave a Guy a Walmart Bag Full of Cash to Rig Polls For Trump
A classic Trump response, from his current attorney, Rudy:
…and if it did happen, it wasn’t illegal.
@Michael: They had concluded. There was no evidence of anything the whiny Democrats were accusing. The End. Yeah, you’ve been schooled; I can teach, but I can’t make you learn.
@Greg:
No, Trump didn’t ask Cohen to buy taxi licenses and cheat on HIS OWN taxes. Again, nothing concerning Trump put Cohen in jail and he LIED before Congress. But, as usual, as long as he’s telling the lies you like, lying is just fine. Right?
I haven’t made Trump immune from anything and, as all the investigations have shown, Putin had NOTHING to do with Trump’s election; that was a result of people like YOU supporting a lying, incompetent, corrupt criminal for your candidate. Why can’t liberals take responsibility for their own actions? Why must all your failures be blamed on others? See, that’s why you never learn.
That’s all you need to know. It seems liberals never get tired of being made to look stupid for enthusiastically believing fantasy. Sources? Oh… none mentioned.
@kitt:
Sure:
Emphasis mine.
@Deplorable Me:
Well, you’d better tell the Senate Intelligence Committee, because they think that their investigation is ongoing, Professor.
@Michael: I think you should read the article again, Grasshopper. NO evidence of ANY crimes by Trump have EVER been found, despite illegal surveillance and three (count em… THREE) full investigations.
@Deplorable Me: Doesnt matter really the 2 least ethical ambulance chasers in the world couldnt frame up Trump with the help of Barrys 16 intelligence agencies. The doofuses in Congress think they can do better than the Dicks who do it for a living.
Let the kids have their shiny new pipe dream.
@Deplorable Me
You said, in response to a comment by Greg in regards to the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation, that it had ended. It hasn’t. You were incorrect.
@Michael: Maybe they can find out where Special Counsel Robert Mueller spent more than $732,000 on outside contractors, including private investigators and researchers, records show, but his office refuses to say who they were. Could he have used Fusion GPS?
@Michael: We’ve all tried to prepare you for the inevitable realization of the fact that you’ve been led to believe lies about Trump supporting the fantasy that he will be removed from office and somehow replaced with the corrupt criminal Hillary. The time has come to face that reality. Trump has done nothing wrong to remove him from office. He committed NO collusion, NO obstruction, evaded NO taxes and not only will not be removed from office, but all the false allegations, accusations and lies will probably assure he is reelected.
Some food for thought:
https://davidharrisjr.com/politics/here-are-the-10-biggest-lies-you-can-find-in-the-mueller-report/
There are now investigations into MUELLER’S lies. Well, we tried to warn you.
@Deplorable Me:
I’ve never seen anyone suggest that Clinton would be installed as president if Trump has to leave office.
As I’ve said, I’ll defer to the “no conspiracy” finding by Mueller. I haven’t argued that point in a while now, though you continue to pretend that I have. I will also defer to Mueller’s finding of “no exoneration” on the topic of obstruction, and the concurrence of hundreds of former Federal prosecutors who say that, were he not the president, Trump would have been indicted for obstruction.
Do you continue to insist that the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation has officially ended?
@Michael:
Perhaps you would like to address the insanity of your party in continuing to pursue collusion despite that false allegation (not a suspicion, not an error but an outright LIE) being beaten completely into the ground? Or, do you simply accept it as liberal business as usual?
I don’t think any investigations will end under Democrats; it’s all they have to cling to. However, as the article I provided clearly stated, they were ending the investigation and no evidence of wrongdoing has been found.
Meanwhile, our border agents beg for help in handling the out of control illegal immigration issue, where disease and crime continues to pour across the border, a crisis of Democrat making.
@Deplorable Me:
First of all, I’m not registered with the Democratic Party. Second, even if I were, I’m not in charge of what everybody else does. When I have problems with what you post here, it’s because of what you post, not what conservatives in general are doing or saying. It would be great if you could do the same for me.
I’m not seeing conspiracy between the Russian government and the Trump campaign as a thing to spend any more time on.
@Deplorable Me: They will never get it the entire Democrat line up of representatives are only missing one thing…
@kitt: The Democrats ran a con on the American people based completely on known false accusations, supported by known false “evidence” and they not only want to perpetuate that farce as long as they can, but try to prove Trump obstructed an illegal investigation of known false accusations.
As the cherry on top, they are trying to hold the Attorney General in contempt for not breaking the law.
When asked to support these villains or Trump, liberals choose the villains. They cannot put America before their proven failed ideology.
@Deplorable Me: Another record breaking invasion at the southern border this month and they are worried about if Jr talked to Cohen about a Hotel that was never built. It isnt even illegal to build a hotel in Russia..who knew, not Cohen.. I guess. The walmart bag full of money is pretty funny.
Comey and Rosenstein both took swipes at each other yesterday. While Rosenstein’s was subtle, Comey’s wasn’t. Comrade Jim knows that if Rosenstein opens up him and his comrades are toast. Now that we know the FBI knew in advance of the FISA warrant applications that the dossier was bullshit but still used it anyway, perhaps Rosenstein feels as though he was used as a dupe by the other coupsters and is ready to sing. Notice how Barr has publicly praised him? He may need extra security as well.
@another vet: There is now proof available that the FBI knew BEFORE they used the dossier as evidence to justify FISA warrants that not only was it largely false, but that Steele was sprinkling it around the media. But, they used it anyway. Who was in charge then? Who was FBI director? Hmmm…
@Deplorable Me:
Not only was the phony dossier used as “Verified Documents” for the FISC warrant application, so was the article about the Steele dossier that was written when the dossier was leaked to the press. And none other than the ever so “honest” James Comey signed off on that little bit of lying to FISC, knowing the dossier was unverified.
Five years from now, Greggie Goebbels will still be swearing that Trump colluded with the Ruskies, Trump obstructed the investigation (unlike Obama who really did obstruct Fast and Furious information release) and the Democrats are the honest party.
So now the rats are going after each other; Comey after Rosenstein, Rosenstein after Comey, et al. And McCabe is going to sing like the proverbial canary when his tail is in the trap.
@Deplorable Me, #127:
The circumstances resulting in Cohen’s campaign finance violation charges seem to have somehow slipped your mind. Don’t you remember? Trump initially claimed he knew nothing about the payments, but later changed his story and claimed that he had reimbursed Cohen.
Hey, Mueller is lying. Nothing happened, and if anything did happen it wasn’t illegal. And if anything illegal happened, which it didn’t, the President didn’t know about it. Witch hunt!
What planet have you been living on? Every intelligence community assessment, law enforcement assessment, and congressional committee investigation to date has concluded that the Russians mounted a sophisticated clandestine effort to influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In this context, when one says “Russians” one means “Putin”. Anyone who believes that was done with the intention of electing Hillary Clinton is seriously delusional.
Can you tell me what measures the Trump administration has taken to prevent this from happening again? Maybe you could make a list.
@retire05: You know, when an accusation has to be LIED about to have support that usually indicates the accusation is worthless. Yet liberals just eat up lie after lie after lies expecting that as they accumulate they will become true.
@Greg:
There were no campaign finance violations that involved Trump.
@Deplorable Me: Who would have guessed?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/nadler-mueller-will-not-testify-next-week
@another vet, #146:
Anyone would have guessed. Mueller won’t testify until he has left the DoJ and is no longer officially under the authority of Barr and Trump.
@another vet: What a shame I wanted them to ask him who Misfud is.
Under oath ask him if he used Steele as a research contractor or anyone from Fusion.
@kitt:
The Republican members of the committee can certainly ask Mueller those questions when he testifies.
@kitt: He needs to explain the $742,000 spend on “outside contractors, who they are and how much each got for what. He also needs to explain each one of these:
https://davidharrisjr.com/politics/here-are-the-10-biggest-lies-you-can-find-in-the-mueller-report/
The more facts about Mueller’s report come out, it may take a subpoena to get Mueller to show up. He may be seeing Cohen soon.