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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 05:58 AM Oct 2019

Trump and Barr are using the justice department to hide their own illegal activity

Trump’s hand-picked Attorney General, Bill Barr, is making good on Trump’s demands to ‘investigate the investigators,’ as the New York Times reports he is using the DOJ to push a ‘criminal’ probe in the Mueller investigation. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on how Barr’s call for investigation, in the midst of the Ukraine impeachment probe, is Trump’s latest systematic demand to use the government’s gravest powers to go after anyone has ever opposed him.

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Trump and Barr are using the justice department to hide their own illegal activity (Original Post) UCmeNdc Oct 2019 OP
The DOJ and WH are totally corrupt. democratisphere Oct 2019 #1
Wrong Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2019 #6
Fish rots from the HEAD. democratisphere Oct 2019 #7
Okay atreides1 Oct 2019 #8
Barr begged for this job. Scarsdale Oct 2019 #2
But hey, Russia's awfully happy these days. calimary Oct 2019 #4
Bastards James48 Oct 2019 #3
The cops aren't crooked. democratisphere Oct 2019 #5
Sit back and watch Barr and the Con lose malaise Oct 2019 #9
OMG! Barr is now the mob "enforcer". The AG lots of ways to make life miserable McCamy Taylor Oct 2019 #10
Blowback Woodwizard Oct 2019 #11
K&R 2naSalit Oct 2019 #12

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
1. The DOJ and WH are totally corrupt.
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 06:50 AM
Oct 2019

Who will step forward from within to expose both of these criminal operations?

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,013 posts)
6. Wrong
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 07:43 AM
Oct 2019

The head of the DoJ and a number of people in it are corrupt.

But to say the DoJ is totally corrupt is to shit on a lot of very dedicated hard-working people who are doing the best they can day to day under adverse conditions. After all, the DoJ put Manafort in prison.

I say give them some respect and drop the binary all-or-nothing thinking.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
7. Fish rots from the HEAD.
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 07:50 AM
Oct 2019

Then people within the DOJ need to out Barr and his henchmen in an attempt to reinstate their integrity.

atreides1

(16,082 posts)
8. Okay
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 08:12 AM
Oct 2019

The DoJ that put Manafort in prison wasn't the Barr DoJ, now was it?

And if the reports are true, that Barr has "required" the SDNY work closer with the DoJ in D.C. in the investigation of Rudy and his Ukraine/Belorus pals...we can suspect that the DoJ here in D.C., will be leaking information from the SDNY, to Rudy and his cohorts who were recently indicted...all to keep Trump out of the line of fire!!!


Corruption comes in many forms...active participation as well as silent complicity...Barr and his cronies are active, those who sit and their hands are complicit...

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
2. Barr begged for this job.
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 06:52 AM
Oct 2019

He wrote a fawning letter to tRump, telling him a president is above all laws. Barr is a toady, and looks the part. He should be removed from that position. Flying all over the world, getting people to lie about the Russia probe? This is making the USA look so petty and juvenile in the eyes of the entire world. Nobody respects tRump, he is a joke worldwide. Barr is aiding him in downgrading this country. I can't wait until we get adults into positions in government again. This crew is so anti-American it reeks.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
5. The cops aren't crooked.
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 07:12 AM
Oct 2019

The Mayor and Police Commissioner, along with their closest advisors, are crooked as hell!

McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
10. OMG! Barr is now the mob "enforcer". The AG lots of ways to make life miserable
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 08:15 AM
Oct 2019

for anyone who dares to tell the truth about the Putin-Trump organized crime family.

Woodwizard

(845 posts)
11. Blowback
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 08:20 AM
Oct 2019

I think this will be a disaster for them in a month or so the tables will turn on Barr and ultimately 45. He is messing with people who know the game.

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