According to a report in the Washington Post William P Barr is the leading candidate to replace Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General. Barr previously served as AG under George HW Bush. The other possible candidate is Rep. John Ratcliffe from Texas.
(Washington Post) Former attorney general William P. Barr is President Trump’s leading candidate to be nominated to lead the Justice Department — a choice that could be made in coming days as the agency presses forward with a probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to multiple people familiar with the deliberations.
Barr, 68, a well-respected Republican lawyer who served as attorney general from 1991 to 1993 under President George H.W. Bush, has emerged as a favorite candidate of a number of Trump administration officials, including senior lawyers in the White House Counsel’s Office, these people said. Two people familiar with the discussions said the president has told advisers in recent days that he plans to nominate Barr.
One person familiar with the discussions cautioned that while Barr is the leading candidate, the decision is not final and the president could decide to pick someone else. (read more)
Seems a little swampy to me
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Same here.
Just have to trust it’s not a case of someone pi*’ing down our leg while telling us it’s raining.
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I assume this is misdirection on POTUS. If he actually hires a bush bum boy I have to question if Trump has been compromised. Is he trying to add to his list of bad hires. Sessions 2.0. C’mon man!!!!
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“I have to question if Trump has been compromised.”
I have no such question, and it’s President Trump.
Pre-bashing again, on insufficient evidence. 🙄
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I’m with you and Suspicious Cat! There’s another one with that creepy “psychopathic smile”.
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Swampy for sure and most likely to do nothing in reference to Crossfire Hurricane and other swampy things.
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Very swampy. Leave anyone in the former Bush/Bush administration out, especially for AG. Let go for the real AG swam-slayer and let the chip fall where it is.
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Right in line with Pompeo’s tapping the Wall Street Journal Tweeter to help staff the communications staff at Department of State.
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I pray it’s John Ratcliffe.
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The Bush connection concerns me greatly. And there are many good people out there for DJT to choose from. He is dragging his feet and should have already picked someone, probably because he gets a lot of bad info from his many advisers who are mostly lawyers and in my view the scum of the earth ?
I look at DC and every state capitol and it is clear to me who the bad guys really are, both red and blue. Look at DOJ , FBI, CIA, and IRS as well and how many are lawyers at the top of the pile ? and how many are decent, moral and ethical people ?
The problem in a nutshell as I see it.
By the way another good synopsis from treehouse. Now we need to start in on solutions and begin to get away from the complexities of the minutia and many crimes we are all well aware of ? There were so many crimes in the 3 years leading up to the 2016 election it is bogging down most brains. The simple fact is many crimes were committed by the BHO regime. and the bureaucracy is out of control. Some of it goes back before the Mueller sham was created, like the Uranium One sham. All need to be held accountable now, simple as that ! We must demand this because the lawyers will not, that should be clear. And yes I realize they are not 100% scum, just about 75%. Close enough for me to make a decision.
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Why suspicious cat?
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Because it’s the Wash. Compost…
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Apparently the wapo is Right.
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Because ANYONE WAPO wants, we the people definitely do NOT want. If they like him, he will be WORSE than Sessions, probably someone like Comey. More disinfo. That’s why we need a counter, to blunt this crap. Remember WAPO is an “arm” of the CIA. Also WAPO is owned be Bezos, someone who definitely is NOT MAGA. I hope it is Joe Digenova, just to watch Cabal heads explode.
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Joe DiGenova would take a hatchet to the corruption at the DOJ. He’d massacre it, and he’d be great.
The problem is that the AG nominee has to clear the senate. Trump has choppy waters to navigate. Fortunately though I feel that whoever Trump picks, as long as they’re not unqualified and not too far outside the mainstream will be able to be confirmed in the Senate, especially since jerks like Jeff Flake are gone.
The same Jeff Flake who is adamant that Mueller be protected.
The same Jeff Flake who is up to his eyeballs in funny business in Africa involving Uranium.
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He could appoint Joe D as acting Attorney General for seven months then reappoint him for another seven months.
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Yes he could do that and never need congress ! That is how Obama rolled as well in many matters and I started mentioning this about 6 months ago waiting for Sessions to get bounced.
Just stop and ponder how much grief Sessions caused DJT and the nation ? Mind boggling actually. A pathetic man and fool as i see it.
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Let’s hope so…..
Ben Sasse is the new Jeff Flake
Susan Collins is still there
Lisa Murkowski is still there
Mitt Romney is the new John McCain.
There are others, but there are 4 you can bet your bottom dollar will be obstructing the President’s agenda in the next two years…
I suspect Sasse will be the star of many of Trump’s tweets over the next two years and will be run out of the Senate the same way Flake was.
The silly thing about Sasse is, he tends to vote the right way but he obstructs the Trump agenda by endlessly giving the media anti-Trump soundbites!! Just like Flake!!!
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Ok now I get it. Thank you both.
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I also doubt this is really the last move on this by PDJT.
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From the article linked above:
Administration officials expect Barr’s nomination would be received positively by Republicans who respect his experience and Democrats who would likely view him as an old-school GOP lawyer with no particular personal loyalty to the president.
At that time, Mueller led the department’s criminal division, reporting directly to Barr. The two worked together on the multiyear investigation into the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
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I sincerely hope President Trump is getting sound MAGA advice on his next AG pick.
It’s pretty clear to me that Barr is being groomed for the position because he would likely let Mueller continue to run cover and would probably shut down Huber/IG.
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I have a different take… based on Barr’s recent comments about how Mueller should be reigned in 😉
This might be the right guy.
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What if Barr is lying to con Trump? POTUS has been buffaloed and conned before- sessions, Rosy, wray. I could go on and on.
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I’ve already changed my mind… after reading more about the guy!
Eeeek!
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Seems I recall hearing the same words from Whitaker… hmmm?… crickets now
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@ Chojun…do you believe there is a Huber investigation?
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I *KNOW* there is a Huber investigation.
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@ Chojun……good.
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…but what I *don’t* know is if the Huber investigation will net a result that everyone will be happy with.
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Yes. POTUS actually picked Barr. I am stunned. Another bad hire. I thought this was misdirection by POTUS. Nope. he had continued his tradition of nominating back stabbing swamp creatures that want to impeach. Like bush Trump is looking like a one termer.
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I don’t think this is all bad. It looks as if Barr wants to look at the Clinton Foundation.
I personally think the CF is the doorway into a massive global money laundering network.
https://truepundit.com/trumps-pick-for-new-attorney-general-has-the-clinton-cartel-terrified/
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That is the EXACT quote that stood out for me, flep!
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Mueller worked for him? Oh hell no. Barr sounds too swampy to me.
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“no particular personal loyalty to the president”
Oh, he’s got loyalty alright. And it most definitely ain’t to the President.
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😂 but it makes me want to cry 😭
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Weather balloon by WaPo more than likely…suspicious.
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Why Suspicious Cat? Because SC knows that, despite all the out of this world fairy tales we heard at yesterday’s funeral, having worked for the CIA and for GHWB, etc. is NOT a positive qualification for serving our American Republic, as it was founded! Also — “interesting” timing of this leak — the day after the funeral when we are all supposed to be in an emotional state after having fallen for the GHWB character fairy tales. The deep state critters truly think the American people are dumber than a box of rocks. Geez.
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Ummm. At least 50% of Americans ARE dumber than a box of rocks. And at least 30% are plain resistant to Trump & MAGA.
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I’d like to see a Venn Diagram on that – presumably there is significant crossover of those two figures you cite?
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My guess is that there is no intersection per se, because the latter group are 100% within the first group.
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correction: ..there is total intersection per se, …
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Oh oh, suspicious cat appears again!
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The difference between President Trump and previous presidents is that President Trump did not arrive with a large cadre of political operatives and supporters to whom he owed jobs. He also did not have the political connections that other presidents have had. While that was a very good thing, it does make filling positions more difficult. He has to depend upon his staff (some of whom are still swampy) to make recommendations. I am leary of a former Bush official in the position but I do not know enough about him to make an informed opinion yet.
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Guiliani ran a 400 person law firm and was a prosecutor. Plenty of good people but he made bad hires.
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Obama didn’t have much of a crew either.
You know who picked his cabinet? The Clintons & Goldman Sachs.
At least the Clinton part was payback from “stealing” the nomination from her.
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If Washington Post is saying it, there’s ZERO chance of it being valid.
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It could also be wishful thinking hoping to get him selected.
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Or to push out a subtle narrative on what acceptable attributes the next AG must have, kinda like a malicious inoculation.
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They can want in one hand and wish in the other. Our President has them all by the balls because if he nominates someone that can’t be confirmed, Whitaker gets an additional 210 days on top of his current 210 days.
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@ Flep…..but if whitaker does Nothing…there goes 420 days of sessioning.
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If you believe he is a swamp creature your right. I still believe he isn’t based on the daily outcry.
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Sessions also had some daily outcry, but its the ACTION that would stand out as to Whitaker’s caricature.
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Actions absolutely speak louder than words!
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Also with the two recent events, like the raid on Cain, and the china doll getting arrested, without Trump knowing it, doesn’t give much confidence at to who is running the DOJ…wouldnt you start to get a little suspicious about Whitaker just being another seat warmer?
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True dat.
Though I’d think in such a case he’d let more of the first 210 days go by before a nomination. . .but he’s the master of MAGA, let’s see who gets skewered…
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The great thing Maquis is that it would still allow a total of 420 from the first day he started which I think was November 8th.
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Well respected. No thanks. Just another Swampling.
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The cat scares me……
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I love that cat!
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Suspicious Cat’s breed is American Shorthair, one of which I have “owned” for many years. These animals are very intelligent and completely tuned in to everything around them. If Suspicious Cat gets suspicious, I would take it to the bank!
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Let the attacks on Mr. Barr commence! No idea why they let this info out. Hope he’s strong and up for a fight
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Really? No idea? How about this: “You want Barr? OK. Let’s try it out. Leak it.”
The Washington elite waggle their pinkies in the air as they nod their approval over their tea. Meanwhile, the Trump deplorables outside the gates revolt and begin burning cars at the word they will be getting another card-carrying swampite to protect, defend, and whitewash the corruption in the DOJ/FBI, instead of a sharp-fanged alley cat to tear apart the canary cage, which is what they have been demanding.
How’s that?
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“No idea why they let this info out.”
Red Herring I would guess.
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Is someone leaking info, if so, is the leak real, but the facts false? Dunno 🤷♂️
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It’s probably Kelly Anne Conway’s stupid ass husband leaking it out in the hopes he can influence the GOPe to pressure PDJT!!! Just appoint Joe DiGenova…he’s the only one I really trust!
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@ Blind…hahaha maybe…also she needs to cut back on his pizza consumption. he’s got to weigh 3 times as much as her..
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He seems familiar… especially this time of year.
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It’s a Devlin Barrett story… I’ll wait until Trump announces it
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Am I wrong or was he one of the leaked-to’s by Page/Strouk?
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A reliable news source, that Washington Compost. I wonder if anyone keeps tabs on how many of Bezos’ stories are obvious, politically-motivated bold faced lies. The percentage must be quite high.
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We maybe related😂.
Me think it be time probably February 2019 to start the action used on the Rockefeller’s oil empire or AT&T to open up America to the younger entrepreneurs. By using a rock crusher on Amozon, Facebook, Google you know the names.
Lillle pieces?
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Into little bits. 😉
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Evelyn, they didn’t earn the name WaPoo by being on the up and up.
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Fine and all, but why should I be excited?
Serious question.
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The Washington Compost describes Barr as a “well respected Republican” and Ratcliffe as a “conservative”. Barr’s daughter works for the DOJ also……hmmmm. Which one would the suspicious cat choose?
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Mueller is a supposed republican.
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Party identification in Washington DC is a funny thing. Typically it depends on which party is in the White House. Comey and Mueller are (considered) Republicans because Bush was in the White House when they came to prominence.
Party ID is obviously irrelevant otherwise – these people are all establishment/UniParty.
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“Mueller is a supposed republican.”
Ah yes. A “Life-Long Republican”, if I recall correctly. Like Comey. Another “Life-Long Republican”. And so many other “Life-Long Republicans”.
Sick of it. The whole thing.
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Commy’s wife and daughters are p#ssy hat wearing Clintonista s.
And he’s a stalwart Pubbie. Yessir!!
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Sundance’s cat has two eyes, very good ones.
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None of the above!
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Sounds like another useless choice. I hope the story is false.
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Me too. I don’t understand all of these bad hires, particularly at the Justice Dept. I mean this buy is Mueller redux.
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guy
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FTA: The Bush Justice Department sought to contain the scandal by pretending the Italian bank knew nothing of its Atlanta office’s huge Iraqi dealings — despite suppressed C.I.A. evidence to the contrary.”
That would be the Bush 41 White House & Justice Department under the extremely murky Attorney General William Barr and criminal division chief, later US attorney, later acting deputy attorney general, later FBI director, current Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
Well, that’s all I need to know. Quite obvious who is pushing this nomination — Mueller. Get it announced in WaPo and it takes legs.
Don’t fall for it POTUS. You and We The People deserve better.
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This is like having a continuously unstoppable termite infestation.
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Who is advising Trump ???? Honestly, this is tragic.
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More than Likely WaPo is screaming to their cabal, this is the one to chant for…keeps a lot covered up.
They are also probably giving a heads up to the Senate that they are not allowed to vote for anyone else.
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Ugh! That is too much…
Now I am not liking this guy…
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Bar Barr!
💀
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“This would be like watching the Sessions car wreck all over again in slow motion”
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Q is hitched to Huber’s testimony on December 13.
Yes, it was originally supposed to be December 5 – but we all know what happened there.
By the way – can anyone explain this tweet from November 25?
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Thanks for the link. The corruption embedded in our Intelligence Community and congress is beyond treasonous.
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Chilling report from amazon listing of book
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please chose Mr Joe diGenova!!
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Well, we know who Deep State’s pick is. I like Ratcliffe but AG DiGenova and DAG Powell have better rings. Trump needs door kickers and skull crushers who are will to burn DOJ down to the ground if they determine it can’t be salvaged. Sometimes amputation is the best medicine.
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Who is Powell?
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Sydney Powelll
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Oh! I was concerned you were bringing up Dina Powell. Yours makes a lot of sense!
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This Sidney Powell https://sidneypowell.com/
She visits us here on occasion. One sharp lady.
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Yes, I thought only of Dina Powell!
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Hers is the name I’m hoping is in the running for this position!
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Don’t know, Sidney Powell maybe?
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Gee, I need to hit the refresh button more often!
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She’s on Dobbs a lot.
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Right, not Dina.
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Sidney Powell, https://licensedtolie.com/
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WSB, she posted a few comments here at CTH after she released her book. Found this link, think you may recognize her (Sidney Powell) after you see her pic:
https://ecelebrityfacts.com/sidney-powell
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I misspoke, WSB, she released her book in 2014 and I know she posted a few comments here this year.
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Yes, all I could muster was Dina…and she is not a postiive force.
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Digenova said he CAN’T, Conflict of Interest, like being recused. His wife still represents the whistleblower, right?
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Not so. He’s said he’d accept if asked. What he couldn’t do or at least he said so, was be part of POTUS’ personal legal team.
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I am still holding out for the Rosenstein anagram.
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Read this news earlier today and kept thinking I needed to get to the treehouse and see if Sundance has commented on this individual. Just opened and there is the suspicious cat….cracked me up. I realize this is very serious, and hope there will be more on why the cat? It could have been an alligator in a swamp…..
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Barr worked for the CIA in the 1970s and then GHW as AG. Both disqualifying IMO.
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Make your voices heard. The good thing about the floating of names is it gives us a chance to voice our thoughts:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
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I just did send my comments. I hope that others will do the same.
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The next AG, whomever he or she is, needs to be a vigorous advocate for cleaning up the DOJ and FBI.
My spider sense tells me that Barr would not be the guy. He has a real “Christopher Wray” aura about him.
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Part of me thinks President Trump did this purposely to see if the Cabal and their media puppets will start bashing George’s guy right on the heels of his funeral.
😉
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He got this one to throw in her endorsement!
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Good grief. Right about the time this chick starts making a little sense, she cracks herself upside the head with a 2×4 again.
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Laura Ingraham has been off-base for too long. Her judgment took a left turn and hasn’t recovered.
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I generally like Laura, but her quick OK of this guy is……worrying.
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fle, I would trust Christie as far as I could throw him. He’s a swamp creature.
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Barr HODAR!!
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“Bill was Of Counsel at Kirkland in 2009 and rejoined the Firm in 2017. Bill attended Columbia University where he received his A.B. in government in 1971 and his M.A. in government and Chinese studies in 1973. He served in the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to 1977.”
https://www.kirkland.com/lawyers/b/barr-william-p
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Oh brother.
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Hey @realDonaldTrump –> William Safire called William Barr the “Coverup General.” Not the right man to drain the Swamp. #AmericanBetrayal #MAGA
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That’s it. Deep State Uber Alles.
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Apparently POTUS fell under the Bush spell this week. Shake it off, PDJT!
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Do not believe it just because the WaPoo says it. Anything coming from them needs to be given the Bizarro World test and flipped 180 degrees.
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Yep, I agree.
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First: Do not believe anyone from the President’s team leaked this. He surely understands, and would keep his cards close to the vest on this.
Second: How long do you think the President has been calculating who the next AG should be? This is not an AG he needs.
Third: Do they still think the President is in mourning and would nominate a Bush guy?
Gimme a break.
Finally……The President has to nominate someone who will clean up this mess, kick over some tables, throw Mueller out, and go after these crooks.
This guy is like watching paint dry.
Until we hear it from the President, I am not getting too excited about this.
It’s a yawner…
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How long was he calculating who to choose for AG & DAG in the first place?
Two of the most important positions in his Administration (if he really wants to Drain the Swamp) – and he chooses the feckless Sessions and the sniper Rosenstein? And takes Rosenstein’s recommendation to fire Comey and hire Wray to replace him?
Strange strange decisions. Inexplicable really.
Didn’t he notice JFK chose RFK for AG? Wonder why…..
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The “future is female” says some.
Sidney Powell.🔨❤
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I hope he can find someone who has not worked with Mueller, Rosenstein or any other of the other long-term swamp creatures. Anyone else, like this Mr. Barr, can most likely be compromised regardless of their intentions.
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Nice move on those earlier comments Ad-rem. Thanks!
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Believe POTUS too smart to fall for this trap. God help us if I am wrong. Senate confirmation easier in January. Rep number is 53 then and Flake and Corker gone for good. Hallelujah.
Merry Christmas one and all. Peter Rabbit
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Yes, by all means wait for the next (Flakeless. Harrisless?) Senate Judiciary Committee for confirmation . But additionally I’d consider holding off until after the Mueller report is submitted and revealed.
Let that predictable flash point and dimensions of the fire occur before sizing up the requisite characteristics of the new AG. PDT can ill afford another mistake at that position with the Schiff/Nadler/Waters thugs wating in the wings and the swamp barely evaporating, let alone draining. PDT needs an AG the swamp will fear, not applaud.
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Barr, 68, a well-respected Republican lawyer who served as attorney general from 1991 to 1993 under President George H.W. Bush…
Someone we admire just galactically trolled the Post.
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Why did his stint as AG end and Janet Reno begin?
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“galactically trolled”
Heh, nice.
They leaked that Trump’s White House counsel is pushing for this guy, which means McGahn, who is leaving. I doubt Trump has shared his strategic plans with a guy who’s leaving, and I also doubt that Trump is going to upset the apple cart so soon after installing Whitaker. He may give it several months even before announcing his final plan. I’d wait until after Mueller delivers his final report, for sure.
Trump has to pick somebody the Swamp approves of, which means we won’t get to see the hundreds of public hangings we’d get with a proper AG, but I think this report is Bezos Post fake news.
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Joe D for AG. A honest man who knows where all the bodies are buried!
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_diGenova
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Yeah really! Why nominate another establishment figure? What is the play here? Scratching head in confounded fashion!
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I’d like to say one step forward ,two steps back, but other than the election of our great President Trump, I haven’t seen a step forward!!
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Why not choose a highly competent outsider? Say, a non-ivy league educated midwesterner with a strong love for our constution. Someone relatively untouched by east coast darkness. A Constitutionalist Wolverine!
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POTUS love ivy league graduates. even the ones determined to impeach him. I just don’t get this….
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Next.
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My cynical first thought went to it maybe being part of a deal – don’t bash me anymore especially during Pres Bush funeral week, and I’ll pay you back with a nice AG pick for your longtime pal. Sorry, that sounds harsher than I mean it to- I’m actually a Forever Trumper. 🙂
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Well, sure, make that deal, but now that the funeral is over, rip it up.
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No way. Don’t listen to the POTUS bashers suddenly infesting this site.
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“the president could decide to pick someone else”…
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Too Old. Too Blue….
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Consider this:
There are two SCOTUS Justices due to retire/expire. Justices Ginsburg and Breyer. If either “go” that allows for Justice Thomas to retire and another two “young” nominations. Still leaving a 4-3 majority while Senate diddles.
Thomas has been Senate Confirmed, only higher position for a nomination is Cheif Justice. Oh, what a great recess appointment Thomas would make for AG.
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Interesting idea. But for now Justice Thomas (a true hero) is more valuable on the court.
I like the out of box thinking!
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I give up. Damn, either drain it or let us deal with it as the Founders suggested.
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I second the “as the Founders suggested” motion.
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I don’t have a good feeling about this. If this goes down, I might lose my morning Pop Tarts.
This has Serious Swamp written all over it. Whenever I see “a number of Trump administration officials” and “senior lawyers in the White House Counsel’s Office” I get nervous. Haven’t been blown out of the water with either of those two, TBH. ‘Course, whaddaiknow. I’m just a guy with a job and a laptop computer.
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Agree. Swamp stamped, swamp approved.
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John Ratcliffe—-need to research.
How many times have we seen POTUS let a RINO/swamp be floated, media and citizens go crazy, all kinds of motives are revealed, then he chooses who he wanted all along?
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Not often enough for me
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Yes that is the mode of operation.
It’’s time people remembered the axiom Let Trump Be Trump. It works!
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If this guy isn’t a pit bull then please no. We need a pit bull.
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Same ol’ resume/career track. Attended globo University(Colombia; even the school’s name is a globalist buzzword or buzznoun), stints in cia and AG for the drug runner; then leave swamp politics for lucrative private industry consultant gig with aforementioned credentials.
No thank you. Who else you got?
Also, to mimic sundance, why did WAPO leak this info?
This stinks to high heaven.
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If Barr winds up being the Presidents pick then it is a pretty solid bet that there will be “negotiation” with the corrupt Senate instead of swamp draining. I have long speculated that PDT has to negotiate constantly with McConnell in order to move his MAGA agenda forward.
Most of the current (& soon-to-be) Senators are probably willing to let PDT improve the economy because they will also benefit. Better to rob a wealthy fool then a poor one.
When it comes to equal justice tho… forget it. the Senate has to receive protection from the FBI / DOJ. That’s their job. It’s so obvious by now that it’s not even really debatable anymore imo.
They must have informed PDT (via some not-so-subtle hints) that his family – along with the economy – would be greatly harmed if he really tried to destroy the political structure we are living under right now.
Hey… Maybe France might wind up showing us how to behave for a change.
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Well, sadly, that is what I’ve thought for quite some time, that Trump would have to make a settlement with these Swamp creatures at some point, one in which none of them would go to jail or to the gallows.
It’s too early for him to be making that decision though. Let Mueller go away first, let Trump get some blackmail cooking on a few of these monsters, and then make the settlement from a position of strength.
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Sorry railer. I’m betting the farm that Mueller will NEVER go away. all those mysterious redactions regarding General Flynn prove that imo. Mueller is working for the Senate as much as any other political entity in the swamp.
I think PDT has been informed that firing Mueller is akin to the attack on Fort Sumter.
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McConnell is under threat of a MAGA Primary challenge.
Trump should be able to force McConnell to do exactly what he wants this session with threatening to support a MAGA candidate in Kentucky to unseat McConnell.
Trump should play hardball with McConnell.
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Maybe they (WAPO controllers) threw this out there, following with the usual suspects saluting him (Barr) as the ideal and “reasonable” pick so that whomever VSGPDT ultimately choses will be “too this” or “too that” or “unconfirmable” Seems like a disruption tactic…..
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That is the most plausible explanation.
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Why is it that only President Trump is supposed to select people who aren’t loyal to him while every other president is expected to select people who will be their “wingman?” Funny how that works.
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I know. It’s totally hypocritical. Reminds me of John Roberts’ ridiculous statment about judges not being partisan.
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Exactly!
JFK hires his brother, Obama gets his “wingman” who “has the president’s back” yet Trump is HAS to pick someone who is “bipartisan.” F**K THAT!
Laura Ingraham probably likes Barr because they were pals or something back when she clerked for justice Thomas. Christie has the bridge baggage.
We need an AG with NO DC/NY connections, who is currently or recently in the DOJ, so they are familiar with who the rats are, AND they need to be FEARLESS and COMPETENT.
Whitaker could be the guy, otherwise I would go with Ratcliffe.
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FUBAR!
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William Barr, Edwin Meese and Michael Mukasey take a pen at the WashPo to salute Sessions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jeff-sessions-can-look-back-on-a-job-well-done/2018/11/07/527e5830-e2cf-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.83ad4b07e050
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Sheesh. Why did he write that? I vote no.
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