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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,010 posts)
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 01:33 PM Aug 2020

Trump suggests Barr could be 'greatest of all time' if he finds Obama administration spied on him.

Attorney General William P. Barr has been a defiant defender of President Trump — to a fault, his critics say. But on Thursday, Mr. Trump floated the idea that Mr. Barr might not be doing enough.

In an interview on the Fox Business Network, Mr. Trump suggested that Mr. Barr and the F.B.I. director, Christopher Wray, needed to take more forceful roles in steering the supposedly impartial investigation into whether the Obama administration targeted Mr. Trump during the 2016 election toward the result the president wants.

“Bill Barr has a chance to be the greatest of all time, but if he wants to be politically correct, he’ll be just another guy, because he knows all the answers,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Barr, who assigned John Durham, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, to investigate the matter in May.

This is amply trampled ground: Mr. Trump drove out Jeff Sessions, his first attorney general, largely for being insufficiently zealous in investigating the F.B.I.’s probe of possible collusion between his campaign and Russia.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-suggests-barr-could-be-greatest-of-all-time-if-he-finds-obama-administration-spied-on-him/ar-BB17Vv1c?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=DELLDHP

Trump is shitting himself in fear.

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Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. Something's missing...
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 01:36 PM
Aug 2020

The greatest _______ of all time. I am sure we could fill in the missing referent easily here.

Will he give Barr milk and cookies or a phony, (Trumps' are fake medals) medal of something or other?

Archae

(46,328 posts)
3. And, as is a pretty sure thing, he finds nothing?
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 01:39 PM
Aug 2020

Trump goin to turn on Barr, calling him 3rd-grade playground names?

I'd be willing to bet money on it.

SWBTATTReg

(22,130 posts)
5. So rump in other words is suggesting that Barr and Wray come up w/ something fake or manufactured.
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 01:45 PM
Aug 2020

The outrage should something happen with fake charges / etc. will (and should) outrage a huge huge number of Americans.

If something of the like occurs (fake and/or false charges charged etc.), rump and barr will be forever tainted and should never ever be allowed back into the political process in this Country ever again. Charges of tampering w/ the US Mail (and other charges, such as attempting to interfere w/ the election process) should be immediately leveled against these thugs.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
6. "if he wants to be politically correct, he'll be just another guy, because he knows all the answers"
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 01:46 PM
Aug 2020

Hey, Donnie Boy, with all the underhanded shit you've been pulling, he also knows where all the bodies are buried, so I think you'd best tread lightly around the bulldog. He may just show you how sharp those fangs are.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
7. If Barr takes Trump's bait and fabricates evidence, he could get the greatest jail term
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 01:46 PM
Aug 2020

of all previous AGs. Think about this Bill: Kamala will be looking into your behavior.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
11. Barr needs to do a seance and connect with John Mitchell
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 01:56 PM
Aug 2020

Nixon's AG and jailbird. Ask him what it's like to destroy your career, marriage, and reputation for a crook, and then spend your golden years in prison.

brush

(53,784 posts)
9. Ahhhh...trump is setting up his October surprise with this. It won't work as there will be...
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 01:53 PM
Aug 2020

240,000 plus dead from covid by then. People just want to get rid of trump, get an actual competent president in the WH.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
10. This sounds to me like he's admitting he's been warned that Barr and Durham-
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 01:54 PM
Aug 2020

trying as hard as they could-- couldn't even manufacture evidence against Obama.

I think Barr's "disappointed" him.
“Bill Barr has a chance to be the greatest of all time, but if he wants to be politically correct, he’ll be just another guy, because he knows all the answers,"

Translates to: I gave Barr an assignment, to put Obama in jail. He woulda been the most greatest Trumper of all time. But he's saying that Durham couldn't find any evidence, and now he's all "politically correct" and saying he's not going to make it all up like he ought to! So now he's going to be dead to me.

Hekate

(90,708 posts)
12. And Barr smirked & said "History is written by the winners"...
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 01:59 PM
Aug 2020

Yes, he said that a little while ago when asked how history would view his time as AG.

Thekaspervote

(32,771 posts)
13. Barr has said repeatedly that he does not intend to investigate the Obama Biden administration
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 02:22 PM
Aug 2020

Or bring any charges. Does little Billie have his limits? Or is he just spewing shit.

ElementaryPenguin

(7,800 posts)
14. Greatest TRAITOR of all-time? Is that what you mean, Donald?
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 02:27 PM
Aug 2020

No one - not even the evil Barr - can overtake you for that title!!

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