Bill Barr, hardly a woke lefty, says that Donald Trump is getting exactly what he deserves in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case:
Bill Barr on the classified documents investigation:
"This is not a case of the DOJ conducting a witch hunt...This would have gone nowhere had the president just returned the documents, but he jerked them around for a year and a half...There is no excuse for what he did here." pic.twitter.com/dYWzauBqjo
— Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) June 6, 2023
Yep. That about covers it.
Sometimes I think Trump's behavior is a sort of IQ test. How smart would he have to be to say, "Oops, sorry, I'll send them right over."
"Trumps breaks laws without consequences," is not much of a story 6 years on.
Donald Trump is the worst possible example we could have for anything at all, it's absolutely necessary for the good of society that he be jailed.
When you've lost Bill Barr... and the former guy (the LOSER!!) "lost" him within a month of the 2020 election.
Nice to see how judgy Barr & Christie are now - years too late. Do they expect praise at this late fate?
Once Saul never Paul?
Please don't flame me to death, I'm not defending Barr.
Anyways, having to work for an idiot in government, especially a crazy one like Trump, is almost an impossibility, I know. I can't imagine the mental gymnastics he went through hour by hour, minute to minute to cope with the crazy, and Barr is his own bag of crazy too.
I imagine it feels very good to say things like this knowing he'll never go back into government and it's probably very amusing to watch the dumbass get his due for doing things he probably had to advise Trump against dozens of times.
The smile I saw in one of the photos of him is probably very real.
Maybe so. But last time he was asked he said he’d vote for Trump if he was the Republican nominee. So to my mind Barr is just as morally bankrupt as Trump.
Why did it take Barr so long to see who Trump really is?
I get the impression that the world is a learning experience for self-important "elites", and we are the ones who are left to deal with the consequences after they wreck things and then loudly proclaim that "No one could have predicted this. I'm the real victim here. The bad person is that person over there, not me."
You never hear these guys say "I'm sorry, I was wrong and I fucked up. I apologize and I'll never do it again."
I've long wished that there were some mechanism by which people could be made to pay for the harm that they do. I mean, one that actually works on everyone, equally.
You know, like if the total sum of seconds that it takes everyone to delete spam emails could be subtracted from the spam sender's life, just as he is stealing seconds from yours. Or if there were some way of tallying the social harm of racial discrimination, and that damage were added to the perpetrator's own life.
The only problem that I can see with this wish is that it is intrinsically negative, and in my experience, solutions which are ONLY punitive almost always produce bad results.
This is why various religions are always trying to figure out how things will be evened or sorted out in the next life or the afterlife. That's just how it has always been.
They always know what they are.
Part of it, I think, is they get caught up in the conflict, us vs them, and want to win. It blinds people on both sides.
The other part, is there's a crazy deference to power/authority/rank in government. People will literally commit crimes for someone just because someone in power wanted them to. I've never gotten that. Why, as a flunky do any of that? The president is going to deny you did it, or that he asked you to, you just do it because you feel close to power and it compels you. I've seen it for much smaller stakes than leading the country.
People sell their souls for a small piece of nothing because it seems like it might be something.
I’m really struggling to find the significance of Barr’s comments.
Like honestly, what’s the difference between him and say, Scaramucci at this point?
That one looks like Timon, and the other one like Pumbaa.
Trump on Barr in recent weeks:
-o- Bill Barr was a weak & slovenly man who was ill equipped to be Attorney General ...
-o- I got very tough with Bill Barr, and pushed him hard to do his job, but he just couldn’t overcome his fear of the Radical Left - He was useless. I “nicely” fired him.
-o- Bill Barr was a sloppy, lethargic mess as the Attorney General.
-o- I only wish that Bill Barr, as the Attorney General of the United States, was able to act.
Expect much more of this going forward. Whee!
he's running!
The Great Mishandled Documents Investigation continues to dominate the news. Flooded server rooms! A second grand jury! Every day the investigation deepens, broadens, intensifies, becomes more complex. All over alleged childish behavior by Trump which most people couldn't care less about.
Meanwhile we've heard nothing for months about the federal investigation into Trump's plot to overturn an election, which should have been the only focus of the special counsel's work from the beginning.
He didn't jerk them around for nearly 2 years just because.
He wanted to keep them.
That's pretty rich, coming from Barr.