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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis Just In: Lyndsey Graham & William Barr say it was a joke. They were just kidding.
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Graham & Barr really think coaching witnesses is peachy keen.
Matt Ford
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Matt Ford Retweeted Brian Tashman
Theres even footage of Lindsey Graham asking him this exact question. What a time to be alive.
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Brian Tashman
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8h8 hours ago
Lindsey Graham specifically asked William Barr if it would be obstruction of justice if the president tried to coach somebody not to testify or to testify falsely or tried to conceal evidence.
Barr said yes it would be obstruction.
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Lyndsey and William have their comrade Trump's back! They'll just say, "Psych!" That hearing exchange was just a joke and they'll state that coaching a witness is OK."
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Case closed. Baliff, handcuff the republican traitors and lead them to their cells in the darkest, dankest, skankiest hellhole of a dungeon you can find. The republicans betrayed America and American democracy. Deplorable up the wazoo.
* aka Comrade Dirty Donny, republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
TheBlackAdder
(28,225 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The old saw is, of course, that a good lawyer never asks a question unless he already knows the answer. Graham is nothing if not shrewd. Why did he ask such a specific and concrete question?
What's lurking in the KGOP republican shadows?
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)and there had been nothing floating around that Trump had ever done that. So to Graham, that was a safe question, and the purpose was to show that Barr was not in the tank, so to speak, for Trump, but was a fair and reasonable attorney.
If the Buzzfeed story is true, Graham has been Trumped.
Barr can get around this answer, though, if he tries (and wants to). He can say the evidence is questionable or not definitive, needs to be corroborated and wasn't, other evidence indicates that that's not true, or that his answer to Graham was about key issues but this action by Trump wasn't pertaining to a key issue, so is irrelevant. It won't pass muster with the law and reasonable people, but it would give the Republicans and Trumpers something to hang their hats on and disregard Trump's actions.
Buckeyeblue
(5,502 posts)BSdetect
(8,999 posts)rpannier
(24,341 posts)Dimbulb and Dimbulber
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)US taxpayers. We pay these clowns. tRump is the most unqualified president EVER. The gop protect him as though he is a god. Graham is useless. Snarling as though he actually has a spine.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)...... AND to help Barr sound like a constitutional protector of institutions; laughable fig leaf
watoos
(7,142 posts)but he is on record, under oath, that if anyone suborned perjury it is obstruction of justice. Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress, there is ample proof of that, ergo, according to Barr, Trump obstructed justice, which was the first article of impeachment against Nixon.
watoos
(7,142 posts)Your thread title may scare a few Duers.
thesquanderer
(11,995 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)I fully expect Republicans to claim that what Trump did, directing Cohen to lie to Congress, is not an impeachable offense.
TheBlackAdder
(28,225 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)Sunsky
(1,737 posts)You must've heard wrong. What I meant to say was...
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)Chakaconcarne
(2,464 posts)This doesn't make any sense to me how this helps Trump.... or does it not? I can't tell.
Crazytown.
lilactime
(657 posts)His obviously extremely reluctant responses to Sen. Klobuchar's questions said it all to me. He's in Trump's pocket all the way and I do not understand how Mueller can be friends with someone like him.