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.
MSNBCs national affair analyst John Heilemann issued a similar caution, while CNNs 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 Departments inspector general report that found the FBI was not politically motivated in launching a probe into the Trump 2016 campaigns links to Russia. Barr is overseeing a separate investigation into the start of the probe, being conducted by attorney John Durham.
Its important not to make the same mistake twice, wrote Shaub. Some people underestimated Barrs ruthless partisanship before. No one should do that again. Like Trump, Barr is capable of doing anything he can get away withand that includes interfering in the 2020 election, if we let him.
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diva77
(7,663 posts)trusty elf
(7,402 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,644 posts)riversedge
(70,329 posts)MBS
(9,688 posts)This makes appalling sense to me.
mopinko
(70,261 posts)not when you would like them to be over.
spring, you say, billy?
did spanky say 'i love it'?
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)The Deep Staters can take a hike. "Get over it!"
UCmeNdc
(9,601 posts)That is their plan. Remember Trump does not care about America nor its democracy.
bucolic_frolic
(43,342 posts)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)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)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. Thats 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)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?
2naSalit
(86,822 posts)pecosbob
(7,545 posts)Even if we don't get the Keebler cracker, we will get you.
Wuddles440
(1,127 posts)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.
wryter2000
(46,083 posts)Opening an investigation on our candidate a week before the election.
RussBLib
(9,043 posts)He should have been dis-Barred after his Bush shenanigans.
BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)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?!?