AG William Barr implicated by Parnas in explosive Maddow interview!!!

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Joyce Alene ✔ @JoyceWhiteVance

Just now, @chrislhayes says he’s read the transcript of @maddow’s interview with Lev Parnas & he also implicated AG William Barr.

8:07 PM - Jan 15, 2020

[Stinky The Clown]

1. So how does that get investigated? Who prosecutes the top water boy/prosecutor??

[TruckFump]

5. Barr is a member of a State Bar.

That's where his career ends. Pull his ticket and kiss him good-bye.

[getagrip_already]

30. being disbarred wouldn't force a resignation...

Either he resigns, trump fires him, or he gets impeached.

The only other option is death (hopefully from natural causes).

None of the first three are likely, even after disbarment, which also isn't likely.

[TruckFump]

33. I believe one must have a current valid state bar admission and be...

...admitted to federal practice in order to hold the post of AG got the US. The USAG represents the US in legal matters in court. In order to do this, one must be a member of the bar. I

[wnylib]

38. Doesn't Barr have subordinates who can go to court?

[arthritisR_US]

54. Not having a valid law license would

disqualify him from his office.

[wnylib]

64. It seems both logical and obvious that

an attorney general needs to be a licensed attorney. But if there is no law that requires the AG to be licensed, then I am sure Barr and Trump would ignore any state disbarment. I don't know of any such law. Do you?

[arthritisR_US]

67. Good point, I can't honestly say I do.

[OliverQ]

34. The AG doesn't have to be a licensed attorney

so that won't get rid of him.

[NCLefty]

39. Disbarred based solely on the word of another criminal? Is that all we have?

[UCmeNdc]

63. No, We have the emails

[MagickMuffin]

66. Read the July 25th transcript: the pResident says in the perfect phone call

To talk with Rudy and his AG Bill Barr.

But I guess that's who you were referring to the pResident as the word of a criminal.

[dewsgirl]

2. .....

[UniteFightBack]

3. Bring the whole shit down!! nt

[hlthe2b]

4. I think Joyce and nearly all the former Federal US Attorneys want Barr "nailed" even more than

I do. And I surely didn't think anyone wanted him to get what is coming for his betrayal of the constitution and the American people more than me.

Go get 'em Joyce and Mimi and Glenn Kessler and Renatto Mariotti and Barbara McQuade and Preet and...all the many others.

[2naSalit]

6. +1

[OliverQ]

14. Who can prosecute him?

It's insane that we have no one with the power to prosecute any of these people.

[hlthe2b]

16. Once Trump is out of office, they may well be

[OliverQ]

17. But the Senate isn't going to remove him.

So we're going to have a crime syndicate running the country solely for personal gain for the next year, and our only hope of stopping it is an election that's already being rigged against us.

Yeah, that doesn't give me any faith in the survival of America. I really better work hard to get out of this country soon.

[hlthe2b]

19. that's the way it looks now. So double down efforts to overwhelmingly defeat him.

[Kingofalldems]

27. So we should give up and leave?

[OliverQ]

29. I'm about at that point.

It just feels hopeless. The entire government, except the House Dems and the Dems in the Senate are an organized crime syndicate and we have no way to stop them.

[Blue_true]

42. Bullshit!!!! The way to stop them is at the ballot box.

Of course people that want to bail don't seem to be up for that fight. So they can leave while the rest of us fight for our democracy. This country has been responsible for some bad things, but it also has done a large amount of good also, to me the good is worth fighting for by putting my head down and fighting as hard as possible through Election Day.

[hlthe2b]

59. then Trump has succeeded.. with you

I understand your feelings but you can't let Trump & his ilk win

[defacto7]

20. That was the seup to begin with.

[arthritisR_US]

55. He can be impeached and then prosecuted.

[NCLefty]

51. I'm reminded of when Marie and others testified in Congress. They understood how horrible Trump was

screwing up our diplomatic corps to benefit himself. This was their life's work and this clown was ruining it.

You can't manufacture outrage like that.

[Hortensis]

7. Pence is on a long tease list of names Rachel posted.

[BigmanPigman]

31. I just heard Lev tell her that he was told,

by the head of some PAC he was involved with, not to mess around with Hydes when Lev asked about him since he was always a drunk dude all the time. He was told not to mess with Hyde since he is involved in stuff with Pence's brother.

I bookmarked Pence-Russia stuff two years ago and I remember that Pence's brother(s) are involved with Russia and they have businesses there. His other brither is a congressman. Read this...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029892213
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029773455

[Hortensis]

37. :) Over a week of "drunk" back-and-forth communication.

As for Pence, thanks and hope, hope! Given how astonishingly dirty, and arrogant, this nest of criminals is, it'll be downright aberrant if this is not yet another road leading to Putin.

[Mrs. Overall]

8. Yes!

K & R

[Leghorn21]

9. Oh noes, will liddle' Bill be upset and make faces?

[Kingofalldems]

11. OMG

[Dem2theMax]

21. I have a neighbor who is a dead ringer for him.

And of course he's a rabid right-winger.

[sprinkleeninow]

36. A winger ringer? 🤭

😆

[Dem2theMax]

43. That was actually very good!

[sprinkleeninow]

44. 3 X fast--

'Rubber baby buggy bumpers'..

[Dem2theMax]

45. Just about bit my tongue trying.

Let's just say I can't get a job as an auctioneer.

[sprinkleeninow]

46. Waaay back when we were kiddos we laughed hilariously at

[holding your tongue while saying] "My father works in a ship yard."

My cousin would always do her knock-knock joke:

Knock knock.
Who's there.
Madame.
Madame who.
Madame foot got caught in the door.

We were young dirty girls. 😝

[Dem2theMax]

47. Lol!

I've never heard of either one of those. And I just tried it, and I bet it was a lot easier to hold your tongue when you were a kid than at the age of 63!

[sprinkleeninow]

48. New Englandites. Mb a regional thang. 🤠

[Dem2theMax]

49. That explains it.

I'm on the west coast. No wonder why I never heard of those things!

[sprinkleeninow]

50. Hiya! We're coast-to-coast!

This may explain 'some' of my ways, but not quite all of them. 😁

[Dem2theMax]

65. I'm quite sure I picked up some weird things from my mom and dad over the years.

So we can toss in a little Pennsylvania, and then for my dad who moved around a lot, Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan!

[mnmoderatedem]

10. and that is to the surprise of absolutely no one.

who has been paying the least bit of attention to the situation and has at least a couple of brain cells to rub together.

The notion that Barr is corrupt, I mean.

[AJT]

12. I assume all of this will be corroborated by tapes, emails and other people.

It will be delicious.

[OliverQ]

13. So does Pompeo, Pence, Nunes, and the RNC

Who the heck prosecutes these people when everyone in power except the House is guilty of criminal conspiracy?

This is terrifying. We have no one who can stop these people.

[Kingofalldems]

24. Like clockwork.

[NCLefty]

52. Yes we DO. They're called Democrats.

2020 or bust!

[WheelWalker]

15. As I recall, it was the wife of a US Attorney General who

helped put away John Mitchell.

[CanonRay]

18. Well, we're there.

If Parnas gets to testify he will bring down a lot of the GOP.

[yaesu]

22. we always knew the fox is guarding the hen house but how do you get rid of the fox? nt

[Marcuse]

23. Precedent requires Barr to recuse himself and appoint a Special Counsel to investigate.

[Autumn]

25. Barr won't do that. He's already implicated and can't survive a Special Counsel

investigation. Unless he finds a blind, deaf and dumb monkey to appoint as SC.

[Kingofalldems]

26. Gatekeepers not liking this news--so kick.

[Nasruddin]

28. Why do we believe this?

Is the witness & supporting evidence credible?
I’m getting a sense of being rushed.

[OliverQ]

35. Well, he has texts, notes, and supposedly recordings

corroborating most of this.

[Nasruddin]

40. Hoping it's good

This guy is probably as crooked as they come so his goods better be air tight and thoroly checked.

[Dennis Donovan]

60. Trump himself implicated Barr in the Aug 2019 phone call to Zelensky

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/us/politics/ukraine-phone-call-transcript.html

The President: “I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation in Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike … I guess you have one of your wealthy people … The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you’re surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do it’s very important that you do it if that’s possible.”

[dalton99a]

32. Kick

[NCProgressive]

41. Perfect

The orderly general should face the music ... maybe impeachment himself

[True Blue American]

56. Just in case we forget get crooks in Government

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Aid abpnd abetted by those around them, remember this.

https://timeline.com/martha-mitchell-smear-campaign-nixon-watergate-a357a81480be

Crooks in Government are capable of anything. They called her a drunk, etc. do you honestly think Trump crooks will not do anything to cover their tracks? They have Putin/ Russian help.

[duforsure]

53. Barr will be going to prison

When all is said and done he will be having consequences , and Justice will prevail, and he will go to prison for all his crimes.

[NCLefty]

57. What, specifically, are his crimes? And who will prosecute them?

If we don't know that, we have no more than the "Lock her up!" crowd.

[Dennis Donovan]

61. Potentially, conspiracy and RICO stuff if he's in as deep as implicated by Lev & elsewhere n/t

[Dennis Donovan]

58. Glenn Kirschner: Trump corroborated the Parnas Barr claim in Aug call ("Talk to Barr")

Link to tweet

Glenn Kirschner ✔ @glennkirschner2

To be clear, Trump’s instruction to Zelensky that he should get in touch with Bill Barr about the Biden investigation IS CORROBORATION of Lev’s claim that Barr was in the conspiratorial loop.

Glenn Kirschner ✔ @glennkirschner2

Parnas just accused Bill Barr of criminal complicity in the Zelensky bribery. Yet Barr is STILL overseeing the SDNY prosecution of Parnas. That can’t continue! The conflict of interest is staggering! The DOJ’s credibility & legitimacy is on life-support. This travesty must end!

10:30 PM - Jan 15, 2020

I've already read spin that Parnas' revelation of Barr's involvement was weak and "hearsay"... but, as Glenn points out, Trump already implicated him in the August phone call.

[UCmeNdc]

62. William Barr is a crooked AG. Corruption!