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orangecrush

(19,236 posts)
Wed Dec 12, 2018, 12:18 PM Dec 2018

Trump blasted Mueller's team for political donations. A.G. nominee Barr gave $500,000+


December 11 at 6:01 PM
President Trump has repeatedly derided prosecutors investigating potential coordination between his presidential campaign and Russia as “angry Democrats,” pointing to their past political donations as proof of bias.

But William P. Barr, Trump’s nominee to lead the Justice Department and oversee the Russia investigation, would be by far the most prolific political donor to step into the country’s top law enforcement post in at least a quarter-century, according to a Washington Post analysis. Barr has donated more than $567,000 in the past two decades, nearly all to GOP candidates and groups, federal records show. His wife, Christine Barr, gave more than $220,000 over that time, records show.

Before he was nominated to be attorney general, Barr criticized past donations by prosecutors working for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.


“In my view, prosecutors who make political contributions are identifying fairly strongly with a political party,” Barr told The Post last year. “I would have liked [Mueller] to have more balance on this group.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/trump-has-blasted-muellers-team-for-political-donations-but-attorney-general-nominee-william-barr-has-given-more-than-500000/2018/12/11/dce5974a-fcb0-11e8-862a-b6a6f3ce8199_story.html?utm_term=.86e835310353
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Trump blasted Mueller's team for political donations. A.G. nominee Barr gave $500,000+ (Original Post) orangecrush Dec 2018 OP
But there's a difference kennetha Dec 2018 #1
Barr is a horrible nominee and another repug partisan shit-show. lark Dec 2018 #2

kennetha

(3,666 posts)
1. But there's a difference
Wed Dec 12, 2018, 12:31 PM
Dec 2018

Barr gave to REPUBLICANS. It's alright if REPUBLICANS do it.

See, that's the ticket. Bill Clinton was a DEMOCRAT impeached by REPUBLICANS. It's alright if REPUBLICANS do it. Not if DEMOCRATS do.

See the difference?

lark

(23,003 posts)
2. Barr is a horrible nominee and another repug partisan shit-show.
Wed Dec 12, 2018, 03:57 PM
Dec 2018

He's definitely part of drumpfs new new revised plan to get rid of Mueller and end the investigation and keep Americans in the dark regarding it's findings. Hopefully House Dems will be able to get out Muellers' message, but it's not a given as Barr can destroy everything not in the hands of states' prosecutors. Thankfully, he won't be able to pry it out of the hands of NY and MD officials who have zero reason to cooperate with his destruction.

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