Appearing on Rupert Murdoch’s network Fox News, former Attorney General Bill Barr frame his false construct in the documents case against President Trump.
First, the obvious. Barr is motivated in his position because this is the constructed inflection point against Donald Trump. The severity of his position, the pretending not to know things, the defensive position about the power of government institutions, all of it is expressed in sum and total for one primary purpose; this is the moment they have manufactured to take Trump down. This is the DC Republican moment all preceding moments were designed to support.
Second, on the details. Barr states with emphasis, the “presidential daily brief (PDB) is not the president’s personal document,” it is a document provided for him by the U.S. intelligence community (IC). Worth noting here is a little factoid that runs in opposition to Barr:
WASHINGTON – […] “while through most of its history the document has been marked “For the President’s Eyes Only,” the PDB has never gone to the president alone. The most restricted dissemination was in the early 1970s, when the book went only to President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, who was dual-hatted as national security adviser and secretary of state.
In other administrations, the circle of readers has also included the vice president, the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with additional White House staffers. By 2013, Obama’s PDB was making its way to more than 30 recipients, including the president’s top strategic communications aide and speechwriter, and deputy secretaries of national security departments.” [Source]
No one is saying the Trump PDB is Trump’s “personal document“, the point is the PDB’s in question -those noted in the indictment- were part of President Trump’s papers, his administration records; able to be reviewed and critiqued by anyone the president would assign, including speechwriters. Barr us making a non-sequitur.
Third, Barr notes the documents created by government officials are different from personal papers of the President. Perhaps technically true, an argument and debate that takes place after all administrations. However, if government owned, why did government officials (NARA) then stack the documents in the White House parking lot for President Trump to take.
Lastly, like all pundits and commentators all weekend, everyone is intentionally pretending not to know the difference between ‘classified documents’ and ‘documents containing classification markings’. The former is not part of the argument, the latter wording is artful Lawfare language.
Bill Barr proving he is as corrupt as Eric Holder. Bill Barr obstructed justice, and by my count at least 42 times. Barr committed fraud for his private client(s) even as AG, and was paid well for that fraud.
Agreed. He is a criminal. He sat on treasonous evidence on the part of the O’Biden cartel, and obstructed the Trump presidency. He is an oversized corrupt traitor spewing his bs all over the mangled scream media (msm)! 🤮
Barr is a government employee. That is all that needs to be said. The country is divided: 22 million government employees(D), and the rest of us.
VSGPDJT said many times. We have them all…….
ALL OF THEM.
I’ll say it…why was Bondo not vetted prior to his appointment? These so called “Insiders” put a stain on his Administration.
And let’s throw in Sessions, Bolton, the C-Vid task force etc?
Despite all of the accomplishments of our Lion…these clowns have brought him down. Quislings all of them.
Is it our Lion or his “inner circle” who got this wrong? If “inner circle” was it deliberate?
He was vetted by McConnell.
There’s another traitor.
Barr initially seemed to be a good choice. Look at the wikipedia entry for him (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barr) and go to the section titled “Comments about the Trump administration”.
I’m sure the “vetting” was done by those in the party who assured him that there was no better man for the job.
W/ PDT not having a long list of attorneys he could stick into these “justice” jobs, he had no choice but to rely on those — like Barr — that “his people” (like the Mikes, Pence and Pompeo, and all the others) — recommended– and those like Barr, we can be sure, were said to be vetted and approved years ago–before the “Never Trump” movement, of course.)
(“Oh, we’ve known him forever—-why, he was part of the Bush administration — what more do you need?”)
Listen to what this young woman sez about the Bush family, especially GHWB. Amazing how deep and pervasive the corruption has been. Restless, hateful, Satan at work, from the Garden of Eden to right now:
On the testimony of 2 or more witnesses. This is one. Surely there must be others to corroborate her story?
Today’s standards: Anyone can now say anything and maybe win the $5 million lottery if they can get into a NYC court.
Few want to enter the public service meat grinder. He may have been the best one of a very rotten bunch who ever dared to work within the Deep State and Beltway morass. It is a career killer for most.
They were good enough for government service. Most decent; competent people stay the heck away from working in the government.
It is not easy to get good people to throw away their lives to operate the Wash DC cesspool. It is a den of thieves and incompetents. Which is why small government is the best government.
Our government employee pool has gotten far too large and far too self-interested. You cannot have a decent responsive government as originally planned when you have 22 million people on the government payroll working against you.
This is not the government our Founders believed in when they wrote the US Constitution.
But it is the government we have now – 22 million totally self-interested persons who have seized all the levers of power at every single level of our entire government operations – federal, state, county, city and special districts like school boards.
In the history of country has a former AG ever come out again this former boss like this ? What is this fat bastards hiding?
Maybe he needs more money. The media won’t use him as a pundit if he supports Trump.
A fat rat bastard and he looks so indolent, so lazy . . . how did he even learn how to play bagpipes?
Nobody has ever been a threat to the deep state like Trump. JFK talked about it and was whacked.
This^^^^^^…they are frightened out of their wits of the real President.
When you go on tv to represent the deep state you put on a blue tie. No exceptions!
Bill Barr looks and represents everything wrong with the old GOP. He just looks like a passé country club, self serving schmuck. Hey BB, I think your missing 1pm bridge and bourbon.
So I’m not the only one who sees “old GOP” (definitely not MAGA) when I see those sagging jowls and bad toupe’…
Barr is out there trying to poison the future jury pool.
True.
This man is terrified that the truth will ruin his “sterling”reputation in DC. Remember, Barr has always been a Bushie!
PDJT has the power to ruin them all and as you would say……send them to Siberia.
I thought that the perfect line to say is.
I cannot comment on this because it is an ongoing investigation.
I guess that’s only if it applies if it is in favor of Trump
Shame on Fox for inviting an anti-Trumper to spout. Democrats would NEVER do this. That’s why Dems win elections, they’re bat-poo crazy but they stick together. They don’t cause internal division.
I pray Trump can find a good AG. A wingman, dedicated to the Trump-led GOP party. And please people, we need GOP-controlled House and Senate to stop the harassment and get appointees approved. I think only a simple majority is required for AG confirmation. MAKE IT HAPPEN.
Fox is no friend of ours.
Fat boy Barr said he couldnt investigate the hunter Biden laptop because the media wouldnt cover it
That’s not correct. The DOJ started an investigation while Barr was still AG. https://www.npr.org/2020/12/21/948787251/barr-says-no-need-for-special-counsel-for-hunter-biden-probe-election-fraud-clai
I cant believe some still think President Trump had any choice but to take who McConnel poney up to him . They forced him to take Pence, Sessions , Wray ,Barr , and Pompeo , but God has a plan
Seems the Swamp Scum only look human.
sorta
And yet another one, just as RDS did, shows his disloyalty to someone who helped pad his bank acct with a job (yeah, yeah, we all know how it was so vital that he came “out of retirement” — but he was well-paid just for the actual job—AND who knows how much he got — and is still getting — from the anti-Trump brigade.)
Bill Barr is just one more government employee feasting off his government pension. Pay him no mind, he lost it long ago when he chose to be a cog in the massive deep state machine.
Bill Barr is a SEDITIONIST, LIAR and CRIMINAL for his actions as the AG. He did NOT PROSECUTE ANYONE for an attempted COUP against a sitting president. Acts of OMMISSION are just as serious. He covered up evidence and told lies to the American people interfering in an election. He continues to LIE and propagandize. This is SEDITION beyond politics. He was PART of the CABAL trying to overthrow Trumps presidency.
I have added Bill Barr to the list of people whose grave I will piss on.
When it gets right down to the real nitty gritty, the people of the United States own everything about their government–lock, stock and barrel. When FEDGOV started inventing new legal ‘precedents’ for its powers and metastasized outside the bounds of The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of The United States, that’s when this god-awful corruption of fiefdom politics got legs. It ain’t gonna get no better until we get things back to a genuinely legal footing.
Lying Bill Barr did not move his left arm for almost ten full minutes.
And he is sloping, to the left, in his chair.
And, there was weird twitch in his left shoulder about the 9:09 mark.
Of course, all this begs a hopelessly obvious question: WTF did Trump NOMINATE Bill “CIA” Barr? Why did he appoint a known Bushie? Why did he appoint a quintessential RINO to be his AG?
What an F-ing liar!
Not one thing in the entire interview was truthful…Except that Russia-Gate was a hoax.
Barr is a very skilled at lying.
What was that eye-flitter at the end?
Has he never read the PRA?
It says clearly that THE PRESIDENT has full authority to say what is personal.
The PRA is NOT a criminal statute…PERIOD!
SCOTUS ruled in Clinton’s favor on the “national security” tapes in his sock drawer.
Trump had the documents guarded by the Secret Service!
Biden stole classified documents as Vice President and stored them in his unlocked garage, by the Vette?
Isn’t Chris Christie running for president? And didn’t Chris Crispy declare war on trump in the last 7 days? And aren’t Barr and Crispy on the same team?
And the MSM expect us to take them seriously?
I like and voted for Trump but he never used his
Presidential Powers to ‘Drain the Swamp’.
Trump should have fired Bill Barr, Chris Wray and
many more swamp creatures at the DOJ and FBI.
Bill Barr was one of the bigger disappointments to me.
There’s a long list now.
Hold on here. On Sunday AG Barr admitted to knowing there was hard evidence that the candidate was owned by a foreign power? When did he first get wind of this? Long before June the Treasury Department said there were irrebularities with Biden family accountes. Barr is corrupt as sin
He took a pass on this? A foreign country owned a former VP, who became candidate? That country had a border dispute with a confrontation with one of the world’s nuclear super powers? And Barr took a pass?
Barr best hope DJT does not get back in because he will be under indictment.
I can foresee the Defense List containing the name “Obama”.
It will be pretty interesting when he takes the stand.
That blowhard Barr is the next Judge Napolitano .
to me, this is a proof it is an intel op. barr is owned by them and likely has no choice.
Porker Barr should be disbarred and serve up as pork barbecue!!
He is a TRAITOR plain and simple.