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Judi Lynn

(160,644 posts)
Wed Dec 11, 2019, 04:28 AM Dec 2019

Ex-Ethics Chief Walter Shaub Warns William Barr Will Try To Interfere In 2020 Election

Source: Huffington Post

12/11/2019 03:12 am ET

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin called the attorney general “a Fox News bot.”
By Lee Moran

Walter Shaub, the former head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, on Tuesday called William Barr a “threat to democracy” as he warned how the attorney general may try to interfere in the 2020 presidential election to the benefit of President Donald Trump.

MSNBC’s national affair analyst John Heilemann issued a similar caution, while CNN’s chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin described Barr as “a Fox News bot.”

In a lengthy Twitter thread, Shaub accused Barr of misleading the public after he rejected the Justice Department’s inspector general report that found the FBI was not politically motivated in launching a probe into the Trump 2016 campaign’s links to Russia. Barr is overseeing a separate investigation into the start of the probe, being conducted by attorney John Durham.

“It’s important not to make the same mistake twice,” wrote Shaub. “Some people underestimated Barr’s ruthless partisanship before. No one should do that again. Like Trump, Barr is capable of doing anything he can get away with—and that includes interfering in the 2020 election, if we let him.”


Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/walter-shaub-william-barr-toobin_n_5df09aa2e4b01e0f2956c348

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Ex-Ethics Chief Walter Shaub Warns William Barr Will Try To Interfere In 2020 Election (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2019 OP
K&R for exposure diva77 Dec 2019 #1
kick&rec trusty elf Dec 2019 #2
Deeply funny, so appropriate. Thank you. ❤ Judi Lynn Dec 2019 #6
OMB--that Barr tongue is so uga uga!! riversedge Dec 2019 #14
When Walter Shaub speaks, I listen. MBS Dec 2019 #3
chuck rosenberg pointed out- real investigation are over when they are over, mopinko Dec 2019 #4
The drumpf kingdom is packed with criminals. democratisphere Dec 2019 #5
Kick UCmeNdc Dec 2019 #7
The Crisis is front and center bucolic_frolic Dec 2019 #8
Senate GOP plans to acquit without a trial. CousinIT Dec 2019 #10
Is there any legal means for Barr to stop the election? Lonestarblue Dec 2019 #9
It is past time for some to step to the microphone. Grasswire2 Dec 2019 #18
K&R 2naSalit Dec 2019 #11
Fair warning to Barr...when the Republicans lose the next election you will go to jail. pecosbob Dec 2019 #12
Sadly.... Wuddles440 Dec 2019 #13
A repeat of the Comey letter wryter2000 Dec 2019 #15
Can we impeach that ass? RussBLib Dec 2019 #16
Of course he will. It is a given. BigmanPigman Dec 2019 #17

mopinko

(70,261 posts)
4. chuck rosenberg pointed out- real investigation are over when they are over,
Wed Dec 11, 2019, 05:28 AM
Dec 2019

not when you would like them to be over.

spring, you say, billy?
did spanky say 'i love it'?

bucolic_frolic

(43,342 posts)
8. The Crisis is front and center
Wed Dec 11, 2019, 07:38 AM
Dec 2019

Total turmoil, and really, knowing the personalities, you knew all along that it would come to this type of confrontation, it's been a dictatorship move from Day One that has been a planned coup for several decades. Little snippets of it would leak into a press story here or there, as if they were alerting the public, or perhaps signalling their own followers. Because they do have followers, those who would profit from this power and resource grab.

Not at all clear to me, or anyone reading this really, for sure, how this all gets resolved. Trump is acquitted, and screams "Witch Hunt!" all the way to the ballot box because you know his playbook is smaller than his hands and he just recycles as he goes along.

If Trump is acquitted, I doubt Resist! will take this lying down because they're already organized, vocal, and fighting back. Hitler faced no such opposition in the 1930s. Resist! is more like Solidarity in Poland in the 1980s, or even Garibaldi, the supporter of Italy's democratic Republican government.

How much noise can people make? We have a shadow government operating in a fully functional way - our brave Speaker Nancy Pelosi and democratic majority and committees.

I'm hoping or betting that Senate Intelligence Commitee chairmen will exert more influence than expected. If there are any Republican patriots they would have to be supportive of defending the country's sovereignty from foreign influence enabled by political corruption here at home.

CousinIT

(9,261 posts)
10. Senate GOP plans to acquit without a trial.
Wed Dec 11, 2019, 08:31 AM
Dec 2019

They've said so. No trial. No witnesses. Automatic acquittal. Then Orange Hitler will go on about his business of bribing more foreign leaders to interfere in our 2020 elections on his behalf. And Bill Barr will help him.

Lonestarblue

(10,095 posts)
9. Is there any legal means for Barr to stop the election?
Wed Dec 11, 2019, 08:01 AM
Dec 2019

I would not think so since elections are managed by the states, but this whole administration is so corrupt that they will try anything to keep Trump, and themselves, in power. I keep thinking about a poll done in 2017 in which something like 52% of Republicans said they would support cancelling the 2020 election if Trump claimed that it would be fraudulent. That’s still a minority of all voters, but we have been surprised before about the nasty actions taken by and for Trump.

Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
18. It is past time for some to step to the microphone.
Thu Dec 12, 2019, 02:27 PM
Dec 2019

Persons do exist who could put this matter away in half an hour of testimony.

Are they really going to allow a dictatorship in America to protect their own personal silence?

HOW selfish and short sighted is that?

We know who they are.

We know they have information.

Do they really think their lives can go on as they might hope, when they will forever be branded and hated for their betrayal?

pecosbob

(7,545 posts)
12. Fair warning to Barr...when the Republicans lose the next election you will go to jail.
Wed Dec 11, 2019, 11:13 AM
Dec 2019

Even if we don't get the Keebler cracker, we will get you.

Wuddles440

(1,127 posts)
13. Sadly....
Wed Dec 11, 2019, 12:41 PM
Dec 2019

we are not living in an era where the impartial rule of law applies (although it has been misapplied in a multitude of occasions in the history of this country, especially regarding to members of minority groups). In a right and just world, Donnie "Two Scoops" and his cabal of gangsters would face justice - that not longer is a possibility. The reality is that our DOJ and Federal court system has been throughly compromised by political hacks that only dispenses justice to those that are political patrons and swear fealty to the "Chosen One" and those who identify themselves with an "R". There's been a dramatic erosion of what remained of our justice system since Sir-Flush-Alot infested our White House and this will continue in the ensuring, days, months, and years. Bottom line - we're fucked folks and resistance is the only option.

BigmanPigman

(51,638 posts)
17. Of course he will. It is a given.
Wed Dec 11, 2019, 06:14 PM
Dec 2019

What I don't understand is the amount of smart, objective lawyers who praised him when he was new in his position. How could they not see through this guy, especially with his history?!?

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