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Galraedia

(5,027 posts)
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 09:21 PM Mar 2019

William Barr Improvises Role On Mueller Report Despite Clear Regulations Rachel Maddow



Rachel Maddow looks at the past week of behavior toward the Robert Mueller report by Donald Trump's new attorney general, William Barr, and contrasts it with what the Special Counsel regulations actually ask him to do.
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erronis

(15,355 posts)
1. Thanks for Rachel still being on the air and asking the questions.
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 10:04 PM
Mar 2019

I've seen some new attacks on her and MSNBC for not being "fair".

 

DRoseDARs

(6,810 posts)
2. Wait wait wait, did he really in his new statement say his summary wasn't a summary, but a summary?
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 10:34 PM
Mar 2019

Shorter: "People keep calling it a summary, it wasn't a summary so stop calling it a summary, because it was a summary." He actually used the word summary himself to describe his first letter after saying people were wrong to call it a summary. u wot, m8?

Timestamp 7:12ish through 8:04ish.

diverdownjt

(702 posts)
5. The four things he supposed to do...
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 11:10 PM
Mar 2019

Doesn't seem to include releasing the report to anyone.
And he hasn't and probably wont. We are never going to see it.

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
6. I don't think that Barr literally lied...
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 11:21 PM
Mar 2019

...which would have been insane. Nor do I think that Mueller necessarily disagrees with Barr's sypnosis of the report. I think it's possible that we're setting ourselves up for a certain amount of disappointment when the full report comes out. Not because Trump is innocent. Jesus H Christ, no. Literally nothing in his life--nothing--entitles him to any benefit of any doubt whatsoever. I simply think that the transactions between Trump and Moscow were done more thru cut-outs, done with a wink and an understanding than an explicit conspiracy that can be proved in court--which, after all, is what Mueller was looking for. So my feeling is that Trump is guilty--but there are no "tapes". Just like the 1980 election, and just like Iran-Contra. And Barr understands this, and his role in the cover-up.

panfluteman

(2,069 posts)
7. There are two basic possibilities for the role that William Barr has taken upon himself:
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 11:36 PM
Mar 2019

1) interpreter in chief for the findings of Robert Mueller, including referee and mediator between the Democratic left and the Republican right

2) Trump's fixer and smoke and mirrors man.

Personally, I think the second possibility is the most likely.

My advice to Democratic congressional leaders - don't play ball with Barr, don't fall for his song and dance for one minute - just subpoena the f-ing Mueller report NOW! Taxpayer money funded the report, so the American taxpayer deserves to see it and read it for themselves.

All Republican objections should be met with: If the Mueller report totally exonerates Trump then there's no reason why he wouldn't be thrilled and delighted to have the whole thing made public, and sold on every street corner.

cstanleytech

(26,322 posts)
8. Translation: Barr knows he has fucked up and set himself up for potential problems down the road
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 11:54 PM
Mar 2019

like being disbarred.

turbinetree

(24,720 posts)
11. While waiting to be confirmed, Barr, and then sitting back on his fact ass........................
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 12:25 AM
Mar 2019

Muller MADE CONTACT THAT STRENGTHENED Grand JURY and said that it would be out for another round to BE AROUND more SIX WEEKS TO GO9..........................THREE WEEKS INTO HIS BARR ass REVIEW , IT WORKS SUDDENLY DONE .............smell like FEDERALIST SOCIETY SHIT SANDWICH ...................SO HE YANKED THE PLAN UNDER HIS TRAITOR BOSSES WISHES.......STOPPED..............................WHY..........................i KNOW WHY HE WANTED TO HIDE THE SHIT,M HE IS A Federalist SOCIETY ASSHOLE ................................HE IS JUDGE AND JURY, FUCK THE CONGRESS AND THE PEOPLE THAT PAID TO FIND THE CRIME................................TIME TO GO OUT INTO THE STREET'S THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THEM................................ANS WE WILL GET OUT PAPERWORK ON THIS CABLE OF TREASON......................MARK OUR WORDS...............................


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