Rachel Maddow looks at a new report from the New York Times that Bill Barr exerted influence on federal prosecutors in cases tied to Donald Trump from the beginning of his time as attorney general, including the Stormy Daniels hush money case. Aired on 6/25/2020.
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Barr Interfered In SDNY Cases Tied To Trump Interests: NYT | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
Five months, folks. Let’s make that change. Prayers for the American people and the people of the world.
@Penny Munger
Yes, indeed.
All the best for you and your loved ones.
Live long and prosper.
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@Ash Roskell president TRUMP is a great man. joe biteme is the personification of evil. He is so white from living in his basement that he looks like a ghost. And then he puts on that goofy black mask…..he looks like hannibal lecter.
e james : Get ready to howl at the moon, son 😁
Vote Blue
@TO NO the belief in something can be rather powerful. Why do people make a wish on a star or when blowing out candles? Or say bless you after someone sneezes? Mind over matter. Not saying you have to agree, to each their own.
Wow. Obstruction is out in the open but seems like it’s all normal in this presidency and Republicans are ok with that. 🤯
@13bustah The stuff Trump accuses all of them of doing are not actually crimes. Nothing has been proved on any of them. Considering how Trump, through Barr, controls the Justice Department, if the Dems had actually done anything, they would have been charged. Have you noticed how Barr never charges any Dems with anything in spite of the accusations? Trump and his people are actually charged and prosecuted. Why? because they actually did stuff, unlike the ones you mentioned.
@acidfromhell Nah, Obamagate is real, Biden quid pro quo is real,
@13bustah There is no Obamagate.. it’s Obama is great… for those of us who can read, 🙄🙄🙄
@Jim P and just above him, one notch is Peanut farmer jimmy Carter
@13bustah get your braindead head out of your a-s. Russian bot.
The America people wiil be dancing and singing in November when the Evil is Defeated!!!
I doubt he will be leaving,…….many are involved. The whole political system will halt and other part of the governments will instigate civil unrest. Corrupt republicans will not give up power so easily
@Maths Sedro we won’t have to for a few cycles……
Don Hardcastle unfortunately U.S now is divided between democrats & republicans . Vulnerable and open for new looters and free riders, Trump represent exactly that. Oligarchs and Mafia are now in the White House while Americans conspire against each other….that is 😢, that is how civilization ends.
@Maths Sedro give it til September brother, and you will see…
@The Tweatles All those who support Trump will fail because everything that comes near Trump dies. A perfect example is the Evangelicals who attached themselves to Trump are finally exposed for the vile hypocrites they are. There numbers are dropping rapidly as they become some of the most hated people in the nation. Americans will rejoice when these ugly, hate-filled bigots and their disgusting religion are finally gone.
Looks like Trumpkin has a lap dog after all.
@Bud Fudlacker triggered much stupid troll?😋😋😋
Baby Barr and Bunker Boy are in the same pee tape.
@Marc Milton-Talbot then Pense would be mad… He is Trump’s top dog!
Is it you?
#TrumpIsNotWell #
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Looks like Trumpkin has a lap dog after all.
@i love cops No I not a racist homophobic misogynistic xenophobic corrupt hypocritical bigot. But if the hat fits cowboy just say it.
The guy said, “The winners write history”, you couldn’t be more partisan than that. He’s an extra large Bannon
So funny that winners write history but there are tons of confederate statues everywhere…last time I checked they lost bigly
K TothaG Ha! That’s a really good point!
A low Barr indeed!
This is not surprising, we all know Barr set a very low bar for AG, the bar is so low he can drink directly from devil’s cesspool
that would be dump’s tiny orange pee pee lol
Leaky golden💩bowl in trump tower, unless
🐁💩had his gold toilet bowl moved to the oval, placed behind resolute desk.
@MountainOf Everest BARR is a crook as well as the moron in charge
@john abbot Really? Perhaps you could give some examples of “Barr being a crook” .. Lol.. You can’t.. He’s fixing to hammer the corrupt DemoGoons who politically weaponized the FBI/DOJ. That’s why all the useful Dem idiots are clamouring to find anything to attack him with.
From May 2020 Any belief that Rachel Maddow is a journalist was set to rest in a San Diego federal courtroom on Friday, with a federal judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought against Maddow. The judge concluded that Maddow was far too silly to be taken as a credible news source.
The lawsuit against Maddow was brought by OANN, a news network that Maddow falsely accused on her show as being controlled by the Kremlin.
For the lawsuit to go forward, OANN would had to have shown that Maddow’s show stated facts rather than opinions.
In court Maddow’s lawyer argued that her show was one of “quintessential statements of rhetorical hyperbole, incapable of being proved true or false.” John Nolte called Maddow’s lawyer’s claim “the Alex Jones defense,” although comparing Maddow to Jones is an insult to Jones in light of the Russigate and Avenatti hoaxers Maddow perpetrated.
In any event, the court agreed with Maddow’s lawyers. The defamation claim was dismissed because Maddow’s show is one of “opinion and rhetorical hyperbole,” and Maddow engages in an “exaggeration of the facts.”
If you think I’m exaggerating, read the full ruling.
The judge himself seemed to think Maddow is a silly teenager rather than an actual reporter, as he highlights her show uses terms like “sparkly” and “giblet.” The judge also found it compelling that Maddow moved her head in goofy ways
Barr should be Trump’s cellmate.
@MountainOf Everest His bigliest con to date.
Charlie Short All of those pertain toTrump and more! Thanks for having common sense!
Bud Fudlacker Old News, Trump!
While Trump and Pompeo are crying everywhere about HK National Law while back in US Trump, Pompeo and Barr had made US Law a laughing stocks inside China and over the world.
Biden would never do that those little 9 10 11 year old little girls he’s always touching and sniffing their hair wouldn’t take hush money
There will be more people celebrating, than there were protesting, when trump is sent packing.
Hmmmm it’s gonna be ONE HELLUVA INAUGURATION. LOTS OF BIGGLY AWESOME ACTIVITY”
@Don Hardcastle Agree with you totally.🙂
@keith parkhill Trump has been a lame duck for longer than that, and I have enjoyed it. 👍
LOL! You cant even spell Trump properly. More people? Packing? Do you have any idea what your comment is?
Joanna Reyes
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There will be more people celebrating, than there were protesting, when trump is sent packing.
i love cops I like it my way
Barr’s real job, assigned to him by the russian mafia, is to do everything in his power to protect trump -and that’s exactly what he’s doing.
@wee huddy LOL! You dont have nay vidoes about abusive cops. I DO! DO you know what hearsay is. I read books about NAVIERE STOKES EQUATIONS FOR tueblent FLOW. WHAT ABOUT YOUE! You cants prove anythign YOUE wrote…
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wee huddy
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@i love cops Usually it is grade school kiddies that do the ‘ my daddy is a policeman ‘ routines , so I doubt you have even finished high school , but happy to compare degrees and indeed the universities that awarded them . I always thought that cop groupies were women , but with your obvious insecurities, I understand why you want to hang around what you think are ‘ tough guys ‘.
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@i love cops You spell like a grade school child but your comprehension rate is more like a kindergarten drop out . If you are going to post your arrant nonsense in an international forum, you might want to check the basics , or look like the parochial goober you so obviously are . Now you have a nice day ( and try to cut down on the ‘ roids , they are making you irrational ) btw typing in CAPS , doesn’t make it so , it just makes you look unstable .
@wee huddy NO SO! YOUE said tonewoods matter for guiTARS who haev non-mIcroPhonoc pickupes. YOU ARE WRONG. YOU ALSO SAID YOU DONT LIKE TO USE a fender or Marshall or APMPEG AMPW WITH A TUBE RECTIFIER. you ar wronsg AGAINS!
@i love cops What on earth are you wibbling on about now ? OD’ing on the medication for your ADD is causing you to meltdown , take a rest and come back when your mind is less scrambled ( and check your work before you post , you look even more un-ravelled with this new one )
@wee huddy hHELLO MINE GOOD FEENDSA! TRIAXIS as five 12AX7 tubes in its! James hetfeld from METALLICA HAD 4 TRIAXIS IN HIS RACK. Is this the article you were lookin 4…
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Every dictator throughout history relied on loyal henchmen to do his dirty work for him. Crooked Bill Barr has become Swampy Don Trump’s most important henchman.
I love that his niece is coming out with a character study of Donny boy…. Yeah, under attack from all sides now. What part of GTFO does he not understand?
LOL.
Ed G for president!!
👍👍 😁
The part that says he’s serving ANOTHER 4years….
Democracts support abortion and LGBTQ. *FACT
tinyurl.com/y7ud87fg 👈😳
@The Tweatles – &?
@The Tweatles is actually Willie H…Supreme court supports both of those things as well. D’oh!
If Barr does not end up in prison for this, it will be the greatest scandal, and incentive for future would be dictatorships.
@Basil McDonnell what about Ivanka’s emails? I am genuinely interested.
@Nicole O’leary it’s been proven, a long time ago, that Hilary wasn’t guilty of what she was accused.
@Nicole O’leary calm down and go have another cup of the Trump cult Kool-Aid. It has already muddled your brain. I want Trump tells you to continue drinking the poison, be sure to listen to your bunker boy Trump!
Second greatest scandal after trump getting away with murder.
You start your own criminal prosecution and when you get sued for defamation you can make another comment.
Re: his taxes
So since he’s refused to show his taxes to US, his BOSS , then the only conclusion we can arrive at is –
A- hes broke
B.- he padded his bills
C- he’s a cheat, thief & liar
D- DON’T BOTHER, DONNY , we’re right about you either way.
E- You’re nothing but a BUM.
This is going to be a serious fraud and money laundering investigation by the SDNY prosecutors. That’s why Trump and Barr are so afraid, see Deutschebank
@touchwood108 I was just going to say that. I think that one’s good for twenty years but I can not see the American government under any conditions imprisoning a former president.
@Paul Burley Paul – it depends how bad things turn out to be don’t you think ?
He’s paid no tax for decades. He doesn’t want people to know that.
@Chris Davies it’s way worse than that
“You can’t charge the president (for criminal offences) while he is serving”? Only in America, land of the gullible.
That was only determined this presidency, that is set by the justice dpt. How convenient, right?
TO NO i agree. it makes no sense that someone with the potential to destroy the world is deliberately excused of criminal behavior.
James Faulkner II . But don’t you think that safeguards should have been in place to prevent people like a Trump (a liar, cheat, racist, delusional, misogynistic, adulterer who is clearly mentally abnormal) from blocking their own removal?
I was wondering why trump’s son wasn’t charged in this case. Didn’t he also sign a check or 2?
@Nicole O’leary
Yeah sure, that’s why the Chinless Wonder isn’t allowed to be involved in charities
Nicole O’leary ,
Wrong. The meeting and his emails did just that; broke the law.
Which law is that?
@hodaka1000name calling? Really? How about a link to a news report from a citizen journalist (not corporate media)? You might change my mind then…
Nicole O’leary ,
https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-52-voting-and-elections/52-usc-sect-30121.html
I’m really looking forward to Trump going on trial for fraud after he’s kicked out of office in November.
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Barr’s days are numbered and then he will need a lawyer.
I hope but for some reason I doubt it.
Bush sent our country to war with lies for personal gain and no repercussions there.
Giuliani!
He will be called before house judiciary committee’s eventually where he will commit perjury
@LOAF LIFE Guiliani will definitely do time
Thank you NY Times for this and many many other investigative reports over the years. One can only hope that after Nov/20, the prosecutions of Chump and cronies will begin in ernest.
This peice of slime deserves serious pressure by all sane Americans..
As does trump and moscow mitch.
Sue Howie. Sue, the rest of the world see ‘sane’ and ‘American’ as a contradiction in terms!
America: a country where 3.7m people say they have been abducted by aliens, 60% have seen a ghost, 51% believe there is a Bigfoot and 38% believe the world is 6000 years old and reject evolution and most of these voted for TRUMP!
@TO NO believing in any of the things you listed doesn’t necessarily make you insane, well except voting for Trump. Einstein had many theories, some only recently proven, and look at Tesla -deemed irrelevant during his lifetime was rather quite a genius. Last point that US military, Pentagon, Department of Defense recently verified presence of otherworldly entities or objects, call them what you will. People also thought many myths across cultures were untrue until an ounce of evidence was produced: Troy, gigantic squid, UFO…
Don’t tell the republicans that you will just go in a never ending circle about “Obamagate”
Why is the bar association not looking into Barrs activities? He’s obstructed justice!
@Jon Stone but surely they can look and see if he’s broken any bar rules or ethics. I know he has to wait to be convicted of anything criminal. But he has bound to have done something, judging by his actions since he’s been confirmed.
@stephen wedderburn The quickest, most effective way to remove Barr as Attorney General is to vote Trump out of office on November 3rd. Then Barr would be gone in January. It would be a waste of time to try to get the Bar Association to go after him now. The election is only four months away. And Trump is losing badly in the polls.
@Jon Stone yeah your right of course, just hope there’s enough people to go out and vote and not enough gerrymandering and voter suppression to stop them. Thing that worries the most is the evil McConnell keep the senate under his control. That person has done do much damage to american society, the judiciary and the environment and the way he’s done it, no care, no empathy.
@stephen wedderburn Gerrymandering only affects congressional districts, and the Democrats will definitely retain control of the House, so you don’t need to worry about gerrymandering too much. The Dems have a good shot at taking control of the Senate, which would take control of the Senate away from McConnell. And Trump is losing in the polls. *BUT* — the Republicans will definitely try to steal the election by engaging in voter suppression and hacking the electronic voting machines. They will shut down lots of polling stations to keep people from voting, and they will kick lots of people off the voter rolls to keep them from voting. Our only hope is to have a massive turnout of voters voting for Democrats — enough to overwhelm the dishonest Republican tactics.
@Jon Stone I really hope so mate. For all those poor people’s families who have lost to this virus. And for the equality for everyone.
Looks like Bill is “Barring” anyone who investigates Trump for all his crimes committed while president!