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Bill Barr just dropped a ton of bricks on Team Trump’s bogus claims about the Government Document the Ex-executive “misappropriated.” This was in an interview with John Roberts on the Fox news bubble about a hour ago.
Former AG Barr minced very few words in his steadfast defense of the DOJ — the current Garland DOJ.
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You can listen to the audio and read transcript snippets of the exchange here: cnbc
You can listen to the audio and read a lengthy transcript of the exchange here: thedailybeast
You can watch the interview here (if you are so inclined): foxnews
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MeidasTouch also covers today's Barr statements, with video clips of the interview:
Bill Barr SHOCKS Fox by Throwing Trump UNDER THE BUS for Mar-A-Lago Search Warrant Claims
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Here are a few highlights:
“Is there any legitimate reason for those materials to be in the former president’s possession?” Roberts asked.
“No. I can’t think of a legitimate reason why they should have been—could be taken out of the government, away from the government if they are classified,” Barr replied. “I frankly am skeptical of the claim that he declassified everything.”
The former AG continued: “You know, because frankly, I think it’s highly improbable, and second, if in fact he sort of stood over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them, and said, ‘I hereby declassify everything in here,’ that would be such an abuse and that shows such recklessness it’s almost worse than taking the documents.”
It’s also down-right Authoritarian.
“People say this was unprecedented, well, it’s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay?” Barr said.
“How long is the government [going to] try to get that back?” Barr went on. “They jawboned for a year, they were deceived on the voluntary actions taken, they then went and got a subpoena, they were deceived on that, they feel.”
“The facts are starting to show they were being jerked around, so how long do they wait?” Barr added.
Woah burn!
Someone better break-out the Lanacane down at Mar-o-Lardo. They’re gonna need it.
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Sorry for citing the former Trump-enabler Barr, but ...
Even a broken clock is correct, twice a day. Hope the wobbly fox-viewers were listening.
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