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AG William Barr: "I'm recused from that matter because one of the law firms that represented Epstein long ago was a firm that I subsequently joined for a period of time."
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12:48 PM - Jul 8, 2019
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)Funtatlaguy
(10,879 posts)who may or may not have been 18 at the time.
Im working up a 4 page report, some might call it a summary, on the subject.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)I suspect he's running hard away from this one.
Funtatlaguy
(10,879 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I almost soiled the back of my undies. Maybe someone need to look into that part of his life, people like him don't become what they are overnight.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)How creepy is that?????
He had no college degree, yet he was hired for...................something.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)How many people that don't have a college degree get hired at places like that? Even at my public high school, many of the teachers had Master's Degree and a couple had Phds.
Someone posted an excellent article on the guy yesterday. Looks like he has been a highly skilled con artist most of his adult life.
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)...Tune in to ..."As The Corrupt Trump World Turns, and Turns and Turns."
marble falls
(57,112 posts)liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)nt
NanceGreggs
(27,815 posts)... Trump is coming up with a nasty nickname for Billy Boy, which will be followed by a tirade of how he only got the AG post in the first place because he begged for the job.
This is going to be Sessions all over again.
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)I'm still trying to sort out how the orange anus will react to losing control, the hammer, in the Epstein case.
RockRaven
(14,974 posts)scrupulously follow at all times, whether in line with or against career ethics staff advice.
He is jumping at the opportunity to recuse himself. It does not take a genius to figure out why -- because he knows Trump would ask him to intervene and kill the investigation/prosecution, and he doesn't want to eat that crap sandwich.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Heres LOSER45s brain right now: SPLAT
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)One would hope not!
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)japple
(9,833 posts)everything became so sexualized. It used to mean that someone was nervous as a whore in church.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Like a lot of the GOP
Afromania
(2,769 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)Sugarcoated
(7,724 posts)pnwmom
(108,980 posts)pnwmom
(108,980 posts)The US attorneys, like the US Attorney out of SDNY, all report to Dep. AG Rosen, who reports to AG Barr (who supposedly has recused himself).
Here is the org chart:
https://www.justice.gov/agencies/chart
There is the website for the SDNY:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)Former Deputy Transportation Secretary under Elaine Chao.
One of the gang.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)because of his previous work at Kirkland and Ellis.
Guess where Deputy AG Jeffrey Rosen also worked? Kirkland and Ellis.
I wonder if he'll also recuse . . . .
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/william-barr-reveals-has-recused-himself-from-jeffrey-esptein-case-heres-the-reason-he-gave/
When U.S. Attorney General William Barr went through the confirmation hearing process back in January, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska) asked Barr if he would commit to launching a full and thorough investigation into the way the Department of Justice handled the Jeffrey Epstein case, namely how Epsteins law-breaking sweetheart deal came to be struck and kept under lock and key.
Barr offered an interesting response to the question: Senator, I have to recuse myself from Kirkland & Ellis matters, I am told. And I think Kirkland & Ellis was maybe involved in that case, so I need to sort out exactly what my role can be. I will say that if Im confirmed Ill make sure your questions are answered on this case.
barbtries
(28,799 posts)he hasn't exhibited an iota of integrity until now.
i don't trust him. there's a family connection. things that make you go hmmmm
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)We need to do it now, before it is too late.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Where is the outrage? Have you ever been sick and tired of being sick and tired?
I'm sending my avatar forward to kick the asses that need kicking. I'm angry, humpf...
33taw
(2,444 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Sessions recuses because he was part of the transition team that was being investigated by Mueller. Makes sense, Sessions might be a witness, POI, he might have even done a crime.
Barr recuses himself because a firm he worked for represented Epstein at some time before Barr worked at the firm. Not because he personally represented Epstein, not because he was working there at the time of the representation and might have been privy to information. Doesn't even begin to look as bad as Sessions' situation.
Naw, I don't think we are getting the whole story here. Barr is using recusal as a way to distance his #$$ from Epstein.
Prudence and/or does Barr have inside info already.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Barr likely peeked at the evidence and sees that it is bad for a lot of people, maybe even Trump.
My guess is we start to see more from Pence soon, as repugs try to position him before they toss Trump. If some republicans other than former republican Amash start openly wondering about impeachment, then something big is up.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)in the back ground.
Although I think Barr and the other asshole Republicans are now seeing that this is completely getting out of hand and it's getting harder to control. I really hope it explodes in their faces.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Maybe Pelosi don't want to impeach him because someone in the know has alerted her that will be a mistake. A chosen by his party Trump facing criminal sex charges will be too much for anyone but the most evil rightwing evangelicals to shrug off. And by association, Trump takes Pence down, instead of us facing a President Pence up for re-election.
One thing that people have missed is that the two cases where then 13 year old girls claim Trump forcibly raped them at Epstein's residences fall right in the window that the SDNY is investigating and charging in. If convicted on his own, Epstein dies in prison or Trump pardons him, either way, not a good situation for Trump.
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)pardons Epstein very soon, there is no trial and in their minds, this time next year it's old news, and less of it since a trial never happened.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)It really looks like SDNY is playing in deep water and daring Trump to swim out.
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)33taw
(2,444 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)ecstatic
(32,712 posts)We need to keep digging on this. This is a guy who refused to recuse from the Russia probe, despite recently writing a 20 page trump-is-above-the-law-love-letter memo.
Suspicious? YES!
kentuck
(111,104 posts)Don't want nothing to do with that shit.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But if working at Kirkland Ellis is a disqualifier for overseeing the Epstein "matter," that might start eliminating a LOT of high-ranking DOJ attorneys. I wonder if anyone on the case at the Southern District's U.S. Attorney's office worked at Kirkland Ellis, and now those persons might have to recuse themselves, as well?
Poiuyt
(18,126 posts)U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr does not plan to recuse himself from the current investigation into multi-millionaire and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to sources who spoke to CNN and Fox News.
A Department of Justice official told CNN on Tuesday that Bill Barr has consulted with career ethics officials at DOJ and he will not recuse from current Epstein case.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/huh-legal-experts-stunned-after-bill-barr-decides-not-to-recuse-himself-from-current-jeffrey-epstein-case/
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Nuggets
(525 posts)to attach the Clintons to Epstein.
Lying PsOS