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Nevilledog

(51,107 posts)
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 03:40 PM Sep 2020

Colin Powell ally calls on House to begin 'immediate' impeachment hearings on Bill Barr



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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/colin-powell-ally-calls-on-house-to-begin-immediate-impeachment-hearings-on-bill-barr/

Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday Morning with Ali Velshi, former Colin Powell chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) should immediately begin impeachment hearings against Attorney General Bill Barr.

After discussing Donald Trump’s threat to not strep down peacefully should he lose in November, Wilkerson turned his ire on Barr who has been accused of acting like the president’s personal attorney.

Addressing Trump’s riling up his base with accusations of election theft, Wilkerson said, “This is a very, very dicey situation that he’s creating, and I don’t think he’s smart enough to realize that he is creating it to the extent that he is.”

‘We’re back in a period where a lot of the things that happened in that very torturous period that led to our Civil War seem eerily like what’s happening today,” he continued. “And I agree with what was just said about Attorney General Barr. If I were the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, I’d start impeachment proceedings against him immediately. He’s no attorney general — he’s not even a good lawyer. He’s a dangerous threat to this country.”

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Colin Powell ally calls on House to begin 'immediate' impeachment hearings on Bill Barr (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2020 OP
Barr is clearly mentally ill. Greybnk48 Sep 2020 #1
Disagree , he has something to hide and possibly related go Epstein JI7 Sep 2020 #9
Yep, I bet all this Repug stuff goes very very deep. Talitha Sep 2020 #11
ITMFA Cirque du So-What Sep 2020 #2
I guess he (Wilkerson) is not a very serious person then? as Krugman would say. nt BootinUp Sep 2020 #3
'Lawrence Wilkerson said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) should immediately begin elleng Sep 2020 #4
She better get a move on. triron Sep 2020 #10
Please proceed!! Anything to slow down LuvJoesPartner Sep 2020 #5
+1000 triron Sep 2020 #12
Somehow I think she will... tavernier Sep 2020 #6
No. It's too late for that, they can expose him in January. OnDoutside Sep 2020 #7
It's past time. Proceed. nt crickets Sep 2020 #8
Absolutely Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 #13

Greybnk48

(10,168 posts)
1. Barr is clearly mentally ill.
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 03:44 PM
Sep 2020

Without a doubt. He hides it with a matter of fact, flat affect, but he's a lunatic.

JI7

(89,250 posts)
9. Disagree , he has something to hide and possibly related go Epstein
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 05:10 PM
Sep 2020

it might have to do with his father or himself or both.

elleng

(130,920 posts)
4. 'Lawrence Wilkerson said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) should immediately begin
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 03:47 PM
Sep 2020

impeachment hearings against Attorney General Bill Barr. . .

He’s no attorney general — he’s not even a good lawyer. He’s a dangerous threat to this country.”'

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