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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Van Hollen (D-MD) to Barr: "the Mueller report did not exonerate the president -- you did"
You sent a letter to the United States Congress that included something which was a principal conclusion, which was not a conclusion reached by the Mueller report, Van Hollen said. You indicated that they did not exonerate the president you did. So Im asking you whether you agree with Mueller that there were difficult issues of law and fact in making that assessment.
That is not a question I really can answer until I think Barr began, in an effort to stonewall the Senator.
But you did you looked at the report, right? Van Hollen pressed. You looked at the evidence of the report and you made a decision. And you said the president is not guilty of criminal obstruction of justice. Im asking you, in your review of the report, did you agree with Mueller that there were difficult issues of law and fact?
Im going to give my reaction and comments about the report after the report Barr began again, but Van Hollen cut him off.
But you put your view of the report out on this issue of obstruction of justice, he said. Nobody asked you to do that. You put your assessment you made a conclusion on the question of obstruction of justice that was not contained in the Mueller report, and Im simply asking you when you looked at the evidence, did you agree with Mueller and his team that there was difficult issues of law and fact?
Mr. Attorney General, the thing is, you put this out there, said Van Hollen, growing frustrated. The president went out and tweeted the next day that he was exonerated. That wasnt based on anything in the Mueller report with respect to obstruction of justice, that was based on your assessment, that was on March 24. And now you wont elaborate at all as to how you reached that conclusion. Im not asking about what is in the Mueller report, Im asking about your conclusion.
It was the conclusion of a number of people including me and I am obviously the attorney general, Barr replied, who continued to stonewall and Van Hollen laughed in his face.
Mr. Attorney General, you put your conclusion out there, he said. And now you refuse to talk about any basis of your conclusion. Im not asking for whats in the report, Im asking you how you reached your conclusion.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/bill-barr-gets-defensive-as-democrat-grills-him-for-coming-to-his-own-conclusions-about-the-mueller-report/
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)What a ridiculous little man William Barr is.
trueblue2007
(17,203 posts)William Seger
(10,778 posts)His evasiveness speaks volumes.
SergeStorms
(19,192 posts)Look at a picture of his hands sometime. He's yet another member of the S.S.F.M.C.A. (The Short Stubby Fingered Men's Club of America) All the members of S.S.F.M.C.A. are protecting their Grand Lizard, Donald Trump. They're circling the S.S.F.M.C.A.s war wagons around Trump and are not allowing any pertinent information to escape their inner sanctum. They live - and die - at the whim of the Grand Lizard. It's an organization as old as Napoleon Bonaparte himself, and has served to protect and defend short fingered vulgarians the world over. Our American chapter has most recently been "blessed" with an overflow of cheap, short fingered vulgarians that have been up to no good since their Grand Lizard decided to run for president, which the overt and covert aid of Russia's Grand Lizard, Vladimir Putin, and many other maniacal chapters the world over. The S.S.F.M.C. of Russia has played a Y-U-G-E part in placing - and keeping - America's short fingered vulgarian Grand Lizard, Donnie Dim-Wit, in power. They are a formidable enemy, and must be defeated for the good of all humankind.
It's time to gird our loins, for the survival of our planet may depend upon it.
trueblue2007
(17,203 posts)SergeStorms
(19,192 posts)Some women say it's the size of their feet, some say their nose, but the length and width of a man's fingers is the best indicator I've seen. Full disclosure, I'm a straight man whose played sports his entire life and have taken many showers with many different men. There are life's little vagaries for every "indicator" of organ size, but the closest, most reliable indicator I've discovered in my almost 70 years are the fingers. The palm size (that's what Trump brags about) means nothing. It's those digits, ladies! A man with long, strong fingers will seldom let you down in the size department. If that's what you're looking for in a man. Each to her own.
Drifter
(4,751 posts)The conclusion was reached long before I became AG.
That's why I became AG.
Cheers
Drifter
malaise
(268,898 posts)This madness is hard to process
hughee99
(16,113 posts)Would he like the investigator to make a statement, explain exactly what they found, what they recommend, and why?
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)...although he knows he's not going to reveal content from the report.
I think a simple statement about reading the report and drawing his conclusions would suffice.
Problem is that Barr did it...it's in his letter...and now he won't discuss the fact that he did it.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)Without revealing information from the report?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)He put his conclusion in writing last summer. Everybody knows it.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)Have an investigation at all? Why not just start the impeachment process instead of appointing Mueller?
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)"So Im asking you whether you agree with Mueller that there were difficult issues of law and fact in making that assessment?"
Answering this question does not inherently involve divulging any additional contents from the Report (not that our Dems should somehow be 'barred' from insisting such contents, in fact, be divulged).
It's basically a 'yes' or 'no' question, and Barr is refusing to answer.
I don't know why you're complicating this, nor giving Barr cover for not doing so.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)"not that our Dems should somehow be 'barred' from insisting such contents, in fact, be divulged"
Exactly! We can't let Barr set the rules for what we are allowed to know!
hughee99
(16,113 posts)He wants him to explain how he came to the conclusion...
...although he knows he's not going to reveal content from the report.
I accepted the posters premise that this was what Van Hollen wanted.
cstanleytech
(26,280 posts)I mean criminal contempt of course.
leftieNanner
(15,080 posts)Is exactly what Rachel asked for last night!! Barr squirmed and wiggled, but Van Hollen was having none of it!
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)the tRump excuse "I am the A.G" tRump says "I am president, and you are not" when HE gets caught in questionable circumstances. Maybe both of them need a mental examination. Barr seems a little "off" to me, sort of bewildered. When tRump, Rudy, Barr and some of the others get together, it must seem like the dementia ward of a nursing home. Either that, or a scene from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
True Blue American
(17,982 posts)He did not allow Barr to use that flimsy excuse about waithing. He did what Chris said!
What was old mush mouth Kennedy talking about? My plane is gonna land on time. My plane has landed? Even the Republican Senator from West Virginia was looking at him. Like Wha?
Shell_Seas
(3,331 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)... screwing around with the answer knowing the republicans (R-Russia) wouldn't hesitate to do the same.
Firestorm49
(4,030 posts)Bettie
(16,086 posts)there are no consequences. For anything they do.
But, boy howdy, Joe Biden needs to pay for hugging women.
Ilhan Omar needs to pay for being female and Muslim.
Most of us need to pay for being not-.01 percenters.
And we'll all end up paying. Because they can make us pay. Because they know we'll make our side pay long before their side gets anything more than a harsh word or two.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)bdamomma
(63,836 posts)did the same to Maxine Waters, they can choke on that white privilege shit.
onit2day
(1,201 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)To proclaim his innocence or guilt, because that's the sole job of Congress after seeing the full report what would happen , not him. By refusing to allow the full report to Congress for THEM to determine what should be done , he's obstructing justice, and by showing trump the report and not Congress, and protecting him by putting out false and misleading statements for him, that's conspiracy against the USA. Barr is in deep trouble now for what he's done for trump illegally, and digging his hole deeper and deeper.
onit2day
(1,201 posts)LoudMan1
(5 posts)William Barr has proven his worth to Donald Trump. He has been a great investment for Trump, but not for us.
onit2day
(1,201 posts)has proved he is doing tRumps bidding even to the point of trump speak.
niyad
(113,239 posts)whatever is in that report has to be really bad if even the asshole assigned to cover the tangerine traitor's offensive behind has to say that.
DirtEdonE
(1,220 posts)cstanleytech
(26,280 posts)crud
(617 posts)Mueller as lead investigator for the House impeachment committee.
ffr
(22,668 posts)Lock them up!
spanone
(135,816 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)...I came to think he thought himself coy and clever. Playing slow and slightly dumb.
Did you see the clip where he talks about speaking with Trump in the presence of Supreme Court Justices, and he laughs snarkily at the memory?
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)spanone
(135,816 posts)I'm amazed that people are willing to throw their careers down the toilet for this criminal...
Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)bdamomma
(63,836 posts)suck up like Kavanaugh. tRump is doing Putin's bidding, and has neutered and gutted every important branch of government. I will be calling my Senators tomorrow, this shit has to end.
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)that is the Trump Administration. His sole responsibility is to protect Trump's ass and thus far he's very much with the program.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,105 posts)DEMAND THE FUCKING REPORT, UN REDACTED!
SUBPOENA THAT MF'r.
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)are they going to do something about it besides posturing? They keep threatening to do things, but don't.
elleng
(130,861 posts)I'm pleased I get to vote for him.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)tRUMP..."I'm the pResident and they're not".
elleng
(130,861 posts)30 minutes in.
dalton99a
(81,433 posts)The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)The Justice System is corrupt to the core and broken completely. If we can't have the evidence in fact we have to accept the evidence by way of behavior. By way of behavior guilt of the grand con that has been perpetrated on our country has been established. We the people must now pass sentence and execute the judgement faithfully. Our institutions are no longer capable of bringing justice, we must.