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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun May 5, 2019, 11:26 PM May 2019

Kamala Harris: Barr 'lied to Congress'

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), a 2020 presidential contender, accused Attorney General William Barr of lying to Congress, telling the audience during an NAACP event Sunday that Barr’s primary loyalty was to President Trump, according to the Associated Press.

Barr, Harris said, “lied to Congress” and "is clearly more interested in representing the president than the American people."

She made the remarks during a keynote speech at the Detroit NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund dinner, days after she made headlines for a tense exchange with Barr in which she pressed him on whether he had reviewed special counsel Robert Mueller’s evidence before making the decision not to charge Trump with obstruction of justice, as well as whether Trump had ever pressured him to open investigations into specific people.

On Friday, Harris wrote Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz requesting the same information.

In Harris’ speech, she also pushed back on talk of “electability” with regard to Midwestern states, without explicitly invoking her own candidacy.

"They usually put the Midwest in a simplistic box and a narrow narrative," Harris said, according to the AP. "The conversation too often suggests certain voters will only vote for certain candidates regardless of whether their ideas will lift up all of our families. It's short sighted. It's wrong. And voters deserve better."

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/442232-kamala-harris-barr-lied-to-congress

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Kamala Harris: Barr 'lied to Congress' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2019 OP
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I'd rather see Harris elected as President real Cannabis calm May 2019 #2
 

dweller

(23,640 posts)
1. would really love to see her as
Mon May 6, 2019, 02:05 AM
May 2019

AG in a Democratic White House

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real Cannabis calm

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2. I'd rather see Harris elected as President
Mon May 6, 2019, 06:47 PM
May 2019
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primary today, I would vote for:
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