Hard to manage a cover-up when the Don acts out in public although we’re not at the Vincente Gigante in pajamas moment.
This Barr interview is DeNiro in Goodfellas yelling at Johnny Roastbeef for buying his wife a Cadillac after the Lufthansa heist.— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) February 13, 2020
This Barr interview is DeNiro in Goodfellas yelling at Johnny Roastbeef for buying his wife a Cadillac after the Lufthansa heist.
NEW: Pres. Trump and top aides were unaware of the Attorney General Bill BarrâÂÂs intentions in the interview and were informed of the content only just before it aired, senior level White House sources tell @ABC News. https://t.co/hzqAQ2u5c3— ABC News (@ABC) February 13, 2020
NEW: Pres. Trump and top aides were unaware of the Attorney General Bill BarrâÂÂs intentions in the interview and were informed of the content only just before it aired, senior level White House sources tell @ABC News. https://t.co/hzqAQ2u5c3
Barr is right that this is exactly why presidents are generally cautious about weighing in on ongoing criminal matters. If the president does that, how can you discern what is truly independent from what is being done in response to presidential pressure? Barr’s comments were also stronger, notably, than those by some Republican members of Congress who essentially shrugged at the entire situation. 6 big questions about the Justice Department controversy But it’s also important to recognize how much Barr gains by being seen as rebuking Trump — and how much his answers don’t really address the true controversy here. The fact is that, even if Barr made this decision before Trump’s tweets and Trump never directly requested the action — even if there is no relation between what happened and what Trump has said — this is still highly problematic. It’s the president’s most senior political appointee in the Justice Department personally intervening in an unorthodox manner in the case of perhaps Trump’s longest-serving political ally. It’s precisely the kind of case in which you would want to make sure you try doubly hard to avoid even the appearance of political influence of any kind — whether that influence emanated from Trump or not. Instead, Barr decided this was a situation he needed to get involved in. www.washingtonpost.com/... xEven setting aside Trump's tweets, Attorney General Bill Barr's personal interference in the Stone case to protect a political ally of the president was still deeply problematic. From @AaronBlakehttps://t.co/eAMF0IuSPk pic.twitter.com/ZK8wxiZDXj— American Oversight (@weareoversight) February 13, 2020
Barr is right that this is exactly why presidents are generally cautious about weighing in on ongoing criminal matters. If the president does that, how can you discern what is truly independent from what is being done in response to presidential pressure? Barr’s comments were also stronger, notably, than those by some Republican members of Congress who essentially shrugged at the entire situation.
6 big questions about the Justice Department controversy
But it’s also important to recognize how much Barr gains by being seen as rebuking Trump — and how much his answers don’t really address the true controversy here.
The fact is that, even if Barr made this decision before Trump’s tweets and Trump never directly requested the action — even if there is no relation between what happened and what Trump has said — this is still highly problematic. It’s the president’s most senior political appointee in the Justice Department personally intervening in an unorthodox manner in the case of perhaps Trump’s longest-serving political ally. It’s precisely the kind of case in which you would want to make sure you try doubly hard to avoid even the appearance of political influence of any kind — whether that influence emanated from Trump or not. Instead, Barr decided this was a situation he needed to get involved in.
www.washingtonpost.com/...
Even setting aside Trump's tweets, Attorney General Bill Barr's personal interference in the Stone case to protect a political ally of the president was still deeply problematic. From @AaronBlakehttps://t.co/eAMF0IuSPk pic.twitter.com/ZK8wxiZDXj— American Oversight (@weareoversight) February 13, 2020
Even setting aside Trump's tweets, Attorney General Bill Barr's personal interference in the Stone case to protect a political ally of the president was still deeply problematic. From @AaronBlakehttps://t.co/eAMF0IuSPk pic.twitter.com/ZK8wxiZDXj
Russia attacked America, in response America attacked itself repeatedly for years. An attempt to institutionally re-write history support President's conspiracies. Problem is, premise is in opposition to what Senate Intel released last week https://t.co/3hrjXa35N7— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) February 13, 2020
Russia attacked America, in response America attacked itself repeatedly for years. An attempt to institutionally re-write history support President's conspiracies. Problem is, premise is in opposition to what Senate Intel released last week https://t.co/3hrjXa35N7
It doesnâÂÂt even make sense. Even the conspiracy doesnâÂÂt hold together— John Sipher (@john_sipher) February 13, 2020
It doesnâÂÂt even make sense. Even the conspiracy doesnâÂÂt hold together
Forgive me, but Mr. Barr cannot be complaining that he is being bullied by the president.He happily intervened in cases of interest to the president, to the president's benefit, to the point where prosecutors resigned in protest.What he feels bullied by is the backlash to it. https://t.co/6fZf3F9m9g— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) February 13, 2020
Forgive me, but Mr. Barr cannot be complaining that he is being bullied by the president.He happily intervened in cases of interest to the president, to the president's benefit, to the point where prosecutors resigned in protest.What he feels bullied by is the backlash to it. https://t.co/6fZf3F9m9g
As usual Trump tries to displace the impeachment trial meme that he "got caught" in the Arms for Dirt scandal.
Trump delivers unhinged rant to Geraldo: Roger Stone prosecutors were âÂÂbad peopleâ who âÂÂgot caught by meâ â Raw Story https://t.co/k1yRQJwtjR— Incatnito (@Incatnito1) February 13, 2020
Trump delivers unhinged rant to Geraldo: Roger Stone prosecutors were âÂÂbad peopleâ who âÂÂgot caught by meâ â Raw Story https://t.co/k1yRQJwtjR