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TheBlackAdder

(28,225 posts)
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 07:21 AM Jan 2019

This 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

There’s even footage of Lindsey Graham asking him this exact question. What a time to be alive.





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.





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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This Just In: Lyndsey Graham & William Barr say it was a joke. They were just kidding. (Original Post) TheBlackAdder Jan 2019 OP
Yes, the republican misleader* lied & obstructed justice Achilleaze Jan 2019 #1
Now, what's Lyndsey's game? Why would a Republican ask such a concrete question? Is he Team Pence? TheBlackAdder Jan 2019 #2
Hmmm? Interesting speculation. Achilleaze Jan 2019 #3
"old saw" +1 Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #13
My guess is that Graham thought for sure Trump would not have done that... Honeycombe8 Jan 2019 #18
Let's see if 45 pulls the nomination Buckeyeblue Jan 2019 #4
He might see himself as VP? Urghhhh BSdetect Jan 2019 #8
Dull and Duller rpannier Jan 2019 #11
WHAT? The real joke is on Scarsdale Jan 2019 #5
'What a time to be alive' !!! empedocles Jan 2019 #6
Lindsay simply foreshadowing Cohen testimony ... MFGsunny Jan 2019 #7
No one here on DU believes that Barr is a good choice, watoos Jan 2019 #9
Black Adder, maybe you should post a smiley face or something? watoos Jan 2019 #10
Yeah, I didn't get the headline (or last line). n/t thesquanderer Jan 2019 #12
I'm hoping it's sarcasm. watoos Jan 2019 #14
Yep. Graham & Barr will protect Trump to the Nth degree. TheBlackAdder Jan 2019 #21
Now we are much closer to impeachment. Still some willfully obtuse Republicons. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2019 #15
Oops Sunsky Jan 2019 #16
Lindy without question knew the BuzzFeed info was coming. SayItLoud Jan 2019 #17
Then why direct that specific question? Chakaconcarne Jan 2019 #19
Barr will just deny that Trump coached or directed anybody. lilactime Jan 2019 #20

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. Yes, the republican misleader* lied & obstructed justice
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 07:28 AM
Jan 2019

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

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
3. Hmmm? Interesting speculation.
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 07:42 AM
Jan 2019

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?



Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
18. My guess is that Graham thought for sure Trump would not have done that...
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 09:30 AM
Jan 2019

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.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
5. WHAT? The real joke is on
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 08:16 AM
Jan 2019

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.

MFGsunny

(2,356 posts)
7. Lindsay simply foreshadowing Cohen testimony ...
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 08:22 AM
Jan 2019

...... AND to help Barr sound like a constitutional protector of institutions; laughable fig leaf
 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
9. No one here on DU believes that Barr is a good choice,
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 08:33 AM
Jan 2019

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)
10. Black Adder, maybe you should post a smiley face or something?
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 08:37 AM
Jan 2019

Your thread title may scare a few Duers.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
14. I'm hoping it's sarcasm.
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 09:14 AM
Jan 2019

I fully expect Republicans to claim that what Trump did, directing Cohen to lie to Congress, is not an impeachable offense.

Chakaconcarne

(2,464 posts)
19. Then why direct that specific question?
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:15 AM
Jan 2019

This doesn't make any sense to me how this helps Trump.... or does it not? I can't tell.

Crazytown.

lilactime

(657 posts)
20. Barr will just deny that Trump coached or directed anybody.
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:21 AM
Jan 2019

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.

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