Barr Was Appointed to Be AG Specifically to Do What He Did.

[MineralMan]

It was a carefully planned and executed appointment to serve exactly that purpose. Will Barr remain AG for the rest of Trump's time in the White House? Who can say? It probably doesn't matter. Barr has done his job and has whitewashed the Mueller investigation.

He was hand-selected for Trump by the Federalist Society, at Trump's request. He was brought in to be AG just at the time when the Mueller investigation was wrapping up. He was hired to do a very specific job, and he has now done it.

Once the disposition of the entire report is handled, there will be no reason for him to continue as AG.

[Kurt V.]

1. he's an old hand at this: iran-contra

[MineralMan]

2. Yes, he is. Trump needed a specific tool for a specific job.

That tool is Barr. Before long, he'll drop a redacted full report on Congress, which will slog its way through the thing.

Meanwhile, 2020 is looming on the horizon. We're not going to get rid of Donald Trump, so we'd better focus on what we can accomplish, which is taking back control of federal government through our final power - Elections.

If we falter in that, there's a strong chance that we will not really get another chance for quite some time. Progress is already being made by the right to destroy that last bastion of democracy.

We need to focus on that. The Trump thing is over, really. Nothing will remove him now except the 2020 election.

[Kurt V.]

4. +1

[gldstwmn]

16. If Trump is allowed to go on his merry way

then I predict there will be dire consequences for the Republican Party in the 2020 election.

[TwilightZone]

3. It was telegraphed last year.

It's no coincidence that the guy Trump picked to handle this is already on record calling the investigation "fatally misconceived".

[MineralMan]

5. There was no chance that Barr would issue an unbiased memo on

the Mueller investigation. He came to the job fully prepared to whitewash it. That's why he was hired. Now, he has done his job, and the media, in its haste to report, is missing that in its reporting.

[CentralMass]

6. Didn't you tell people to STFU yesterday ?

[MineralMan]

9. Yes, I did. My advice stands, at least until we have more than

this Barr memo to talk about. I'd advise the political press to do the same.

Barr's letter is just a Trumpish summary that meets all of Trump's requirements. If we let it be the summary of Mueller's investigation, Trump wins. So, yes, I did say that people should STFU if they're going to accept Barr's word on this and start dooming and glooming before anyone has even seen the report.

Thanks for asking.

[2naSalit]

7. K&R

[mcar]

8. This!

Barr did what he was brought in to do.

The full report will be released/subpoenaed/leaked and we will find out the truth. Barr is another in a long line of shameful Republicans who put party over country.

[Kurt V.]

10. Won't this have to go to the SCOTUS to be released?

[mcar]

11. I don't think it "has" to go to SCOTUS

but if it's blocked, then Dems might have to sue to get it.

I have also read, though, that because the report includes counterintelligence info about Russian collusion, it automatically has to go to Schiff's committee.

[spanone]

12. I agree. He gave trump the headline he demanded: No Collusion

[Lars39]

13. We knew this would stink...his prior actions determined this.

Iran-Contra mess, the memo...all indicated how he would “fix” the Mueller report, and it should not have been a surprise to anyone. The Republicans firmly believe in creating their own reality via the Big Lie.
We ought to be giving Pelosi plenty of encouragement to pursue the release of the report.

[Tiggeroshii]

14. So far it sounds like the report is going to look like a research paper that had the deadline moved

forward substantially, and forced to just turn in what they had.

[Niagara]

15. K & R

You are exactly correct, MM.

[Callmecrazy]

17. You have shown no proof of this...

You don't know that Barr whitewashed the report. You just want it to be true.
It's over folks. Get on with your lives. Find something positive to talk about.

[MineralMan]

20. Utter nonsense.

See my signature line.

[rockfordfile]

21. No Mueller and Barr both white washed the investigation .

You really think Mueller, a republican, was going do the real investigation into trump? Mueller doesn't have a good history. Barr doesn't have a good history.

The House should continue the investigation. We need to be ready for 2020.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. OK, let's not call it "whitewashed." How about if we call it

biased in exactly the way Barr had as much as promised when he sent Trump his unsolicited job application in which he offered his legal analysis lauding the concept of the so-called "unitary executive" and discussing why a president can't ever be guilty of obstruction of justice.

What positive things do you think we should be discussing so we don't waste our time fretting about an out-of-control president?

[Callmecrazy]

32. I positively think...

that we should move on from the Mueller report regarding Trump. The report was effective; look at all the weasels and witches that were surrounded by Trump and were removed. If anything, we protected the Office of the POTUS and the Country from those bad elements. The investigations going on in the House should be where we concentrate our resources now.

[rockfordfile]

18. He will now run obstruction to the House investigations.

[MineralMan]

19. Most likely.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

22. Of course.

[humbled_opinion]

23. Doesn't help that 3 Democrats

made him a Bipartisan appointment.... DOH !!

[JCMach1]

24. Exactly, meanwhile the acting AG was pushing Mueller

To wrap.things.up...

I am.sure this why he farmed.so much out over the last year

[Perseus]

25. "just at the time when the Mueller investigation was wrapping up."

This part I don't agree with, but I do with the rest.

Why do I say that? Because...why would have Muller requested that both Flynn and Gates sentencing be rescheduled, extended? The reason was because both witnesses still had a lot to contribute with the investigation. From the time Barr was confirmed Muller's teams have been reducing personnel slowly, sort of in a way that people would not be alarmed...then suddenly, right after the sentencing extensions, Muller's investigation is out, his report handed to Barr, and now Barr wants to hold it hostage because I have to think his four page letter does not portray the findings by Muller and his team accurately.

This is so discouraging, I want to keep my optimism up, but this is too much to swallow. I ask myself all the time, Democrats know republicans cheat, they deceive, they do things behind the scene to break the laws, they get away with it because the Democrats are not watching proactively their moves, and thus...bad things happen, they seem to find what was done from the news. When will Democrats learn to play the game to avoid these things from happening, could something have been done during the Barr confirmation hearings to avoid having this monster take hold of the AG??? I don't know, but right now I don't feel well about the whole thing, I keep hearing that its not done, that the buffoon WILL get indicted eventually, and his family, but as things have been developing, my confidence is down.

Sorry, I don't want to be pessimistic, I have never been, but I have to admit things are not going well, the crooks are getting away with murder and I don't see anything positive to get them where they belong, in jail, happening.

[mcar]

27. ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211954601

[MineralMan]

28. Interesting. It's not an illogical title, though.

I'll go read that.

[mcar]

29. Thanks

[kstewart33]

30. Interesting timing that his son-in-law just got a job...

with the Trump administration.

And today, the Justice Department changes its mind and now officially wants to kill the ACA.

[Texin]

31. I have to disagree with you, MM, about his continuance in the job.

He's now proved that he's tRump's lickspittle. I don't expect he'll go anywhere for the duration. He should continue to be the pResident's* faithful lackey for some time to come, enforcing whatever the next ban tRump imposes on the U.S. Get ready for more judicial appointments made by the rethugs that promise to send America into the next minority-run apartheid country.

[Linda Ed]

33. Did you read the latest?

According to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Attorney General William Barr will allow the White House to edit the Mueller report before it is released to the public.

Congress is going to have to sue to get the full Mueller report, not the Trump version.

The report clearly doesn’t exonerate Donald Trump as it was written by Mueller. If it did, Trump could release it right now without any edits.

The White House has gone beyond hiding the report. They are trying to rewrite it to prevent the truth from ever being known.

Mueller’s testimony isn’t enough. Congress needs Robert Mueller to testify and the full unedited report.
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/03/26/trump-edit-mueller-report.html