In June of 2018, William Barr’s unsolicited memo to the the Department of Justice threw the flailing Donald Trump the lifeline he so desperately needed — a way out of the Russian Collusion hoax witchhunt.
Barr’s memo was sent in June. Lo and behold, two months later (it took that long for Trump to figure it out) he is trying to cite Barr’s rationale that you can’t charge someone with obstruction of justice where there is no underlying crime.
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Less than 48 hours after receiving Mr. Mueller’s report, the attorney general briskly decided that Mr. Trump had not obstructed justice. Why not? Because there was no underlying crime to obstruct, Mr. Barr said, and anyway, most of Mr. Trump’s behavior took place in full public view, had no connection to any legal proceeding, and wasn’t “done with corrupt intent.” How did Mr. Barr make these determinations so quickly? On what evidence in the report did he base it?
Recall that Mr. Barr got his current job only after Mr. Trump shoved out his predecessor, Jeff Sessions, for not showing him enough personal loyalty and shutting down the Russia investigation at the start. Among the reasons Mr. Barr may have appealed to the president was an unsolicited memo he sent last year to the Justice Department, taking the position that Mr. Mueller should not be allowed to question Mr. Trump about obstructing justice, and that the president could not be guilty of obstruction unless there were an underlying crime to obstruct.
In other words, Mr. Barr did exactly as Mr. Trump hoped he would. But there’s a reason obstructing justice is a crime on its own. The justice system doesn’t work when people lie to authorities, no matter why they do so.
In other words, Mr Barr did exactly as he was supposed to, not as Trump had “hoped”.
Today is as depressing for Democrats and those who care about democracy as the day after Trump’s ‘election’. The media is fully spinning this as a massive win for Trump.
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Our one ray of hope is the blue wave that gave us Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Elijah Cummings and Maxine Waters to keep this going. Comments have been made that if Democrats puruse this, we will look like sore losers. Lindsey Graham is planning to reinvestigate Hillary Clinton’s emails. Again. With his committee powers. (and never mind that Jarvanka are guilty of the same thing). Somehow, the Republicans never get accused of being sore losers.
And Trump is suddenly retweeting MSNBC’s headline of “no collusion”. Suddenly, there’s no Fake News.
There is no “bombshell” for Pelosi to suddenly decide it’s “worth it”.
Hopefully the investigation ‘s conclusion with its 24/7 media obsession will allow it to start focusing on some of the other heinous Trump scandals that have fallen by the wayside
The only way to get rid of this cancer in the White House is to vote him out so he can be indicted. His approval will surely go up with this “exoneration” unless the economy tanks. In fact, Jim Jordan’s asnwer to Margaret Brennan’s question on Face the Nation whether despite no criminality he sanctioned the the amoral, unethical behavior that was uncovered. His answer — the economy is doing great. So yes, it’s ok to do anything. The means justify the ends according to Republicans who hug the flag and supposedly revere the Constitution. We have to work, work work to get this guy out.