‘Danger To Democracy’: AG Barr Blasted For ‘Perverting’ DOJ, Trump ‘Went Nuts’ | MSNBC

Moments after Attorney General Barr agreed to testify before the Judiciary Committee, a member of that committee, Rep. Ted Lieu, joined MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber, slamming Barr for politicizing the DOJ saying “Roger Stone got special favors … that no American ever could.” Barr is facing calls to resign for allegedly meddling in the Stone case and for lying about firing the U.S. Attorney in New York.(This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. ). Aired on 6/24/2020.
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'Danger To Democracy': AG Barr Blasted For 'Perverting' DOJ, Trump 'Went Nuts' | MSNBC

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    1. The second tale in DONNIE’S GANG, A Clockwork Droog, takes it up close & Personal with Vlad the Lad. The fellow has had a lot of strain and in his mid-60s, it shows. DONNIE’S GANG available worldwide only from Amazon. cheers

    2. Nope. The USA got everything it voted for. One day Americans will have to grow a spine, face up to their failings and stop trying to blame everyone else for their own grotesque hypocrisy.

    3. @Jim Battersbee Nope, the USA isn’t any smarter than anybody else any other time. The lies you tell the people enough times will convince just enough to destroy your country. USA today, or Germany 1930s. Putin got more than he hoped for.

  1. This is what happens when you hire Fred Flintstone to run the DOJ. The rule of law was a foreign concept to the people of the stone age.

    1. Why are you bringing our beloved Fred Flintstone into this? Why not just use a simple and more effective caveman analogy.

    2. @tinwoods Uh, lets see… “Fred Flintstone” or “Simple and More Effective Caveman Analogy”

  2. Good luck to everyone trying to stay alive while Trump is in office- I am rooting for all of you🥰

    1. Elmosweed It’s not just Trump. JFK warned us about this in his speech on secrecy in an open society before he was killed. George Carlin said it’s a big club and we ain’t in it. Been going on for decades. https://youtu.be/MY8Nfzcn1qQ

    2. @Saynoto Socialists – So, you are saying, that, Flynn plead guilty…twice,,,because he was railroaded? 🤷🏽‍♂️🤔😮😷🙄😷

    3. Saynoto Socialists – If you went to public schools, called the police, or have a Social Security card then you’re a U.S. Socialist. Don’t confuse it with North Korea, USSR, Cuban Socialism. We are like other socialist countries like Canada, UK, the Nordic countries.

    4. @Saynoto Socialists Flynn wasn’t railroaded and was given a plea deal. Once Joe is in office and Barr is gone. Flynn will go to jail for the other crimes.

    1. @Ken Blevins Funny thing is that while you have always promised that Obama is about to go to jail, the one showin signs of desperation is tRumpy. Most of those former associates of him are either in jail, in the process of going to like Stone, or being corruptly out and have their sentences commuted like Manafort.
      But, no democrat. You troll like a Russian bot, always tallking about something that is so far out that nobody believes it.
      Not even othre repugnican’ts are backing tRump up with those wild accusations.
      Actually, the most likely scenario is that republican strategists are trying to figure out how to survie after the tRumpian electoral catastrophe.
      Watch out.

    2. Soren Ingram He’s not the only one. This has been going on a long time. JFK warned us about secrecy in a open society speech before he was killed. George Carlin said it’s a big club and we ain’t in it.
      https://youtu.be/MY8Nfzcn1qQ

    3. @Sperup AD the only electoral catastrophe will be a complete defeat of the socialist Democrat party!! Most Americans have watched this party actually condone riots, looting, and desecrating of national monuments! They have watched the coup attempt the unconstitutional impeachment, and the “blame Trump for everything” game!! It’s over for you ppl in November, hopefully the Democrat party will cease to exist!!

    1. ‘they’ meaning Bidens? You mean when he made Ukraine dismiss a prosecutor in exchange for US aid money? or when his son was on a board for a company with no knowledge or experience? I agree, total corruption alright!

  3. Smug Fred Flinstone aint going to go before the committee what a joke they really think this loser is going to do the right thing

    1. Do you even know who Bill Barr is?? He will testify and answer questions under oath and you left wing marxists won’t like what he will say, because you ppl are void of truth and facts!

  4. In the Country that claims a staple principle is Justice, i find it hard to understand how the most obvious crimes are overlooked when they are the most powerful people.

    1. Then get yourself an education and discover exactly how the greatest democracy in the world can give us this horror story. But the greatest democracy in history will eventually right itself.

    2. The USA has always been a nation of barbarism and hypocrisy. Americans make great claims for themselves that simply don’t stand up under scrutiny. Trump is simply a product of his culture, a corrupt two party political system and now a corrupt Justice department. The military will be next to fall in line and they’re already well on the way. The USA is and always has been rotten.

    3. @tinwoods why the nastiness? @P. B asked a reasonable question? We all need to ask ourselves this question.

  5. If DOJ can be perverted to protect people then we can also assume that it can be perverted to punish people falsely which is even more scarey.

    1. Where have ya’ll been at ? They’ve been doing it since the inception of the country, why do you think people are protesting till this day.?

  6. NIxon was impeached and retired from his position for just that very same reason..stolen goods from DNC office at Watergate Hotel…Wow, GOP shore has changed since decent men no longer occupy those seats.

    1. @Tom O. because he knew he would be impeached and convicted. Sad that he had a greater sense of decency than trump or the current GOP.

    2. And it was the Republicans who took Nixon down and forced the truth. Once upon a time, country before party.

    1. Barr is the adult in the room. Without him, dems would launch multiple illegal investigations in order to bring down their political opponents. They tried to do it to Flynn and with the Mueller investigation. Barr is the BOSS.

    2. @StillGoing Funny, I thought it was the GOP that was PRESENTLY investigating (not to mention illegally bribing for false testimony) their political opponents. Investigations, I should add, of people ALREADY investigated and found innocent of wrongdoing! If we are talking ILLEGAL look no further than Trump & his lacky Barr!!!!!

    3. @StillGoing You are an absolute buffoon. I suggest you stop reading conspiracy theories on the internet and get a dose of reality.

      Also, it is very telling that you don’t care about the crimes that Stone, Trump, or Manafort committed. People like you, people who repeatedly put party over country even in the face of blatant corruption and illegality, are how fascist states are formed.

  7. Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth..

    Steve Bannon’s contacts with Stone during the 2016 campaign was one of the featured parts of Stone’s trial..

    “I think we did, yes,” said Bannon, when asked during Stone’s trial whether the Trump campaign viewed Stone as its “access point” to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.

    Stone’s denials of having any contact with WikiLeaks was undercut by testimony from people like Bannon and a trail of emails and phone records. One message from Aug. 16, 2016, shows Stone telling Bannon on the day he took over as campaign CEO about the prospect that WikiLeaks would drop more damaging documents for the Clinton campaign.

    “I have an idea … to save Trump’s @55,”  Stone wrote.

    Bannon testified that he heard repeatedly from Stone — before he even took over as Trump campaign chief — about his access to WikiLeaks. And Stone kept on talking about the potential of more detrimental materials through the late summer and early fall, at a time when Clinton had the lead in the polls.

    Bannon’s contacts with Stone included an Oct. 4, 2016, exchange after a much-hyped Assange news conference, which fueled the hashtag “October?surprise”  but it turned out to be a bust.

    “It was a big dud, yes,” Bannon said.

    But a few days later, WikiLeaks dumped emails stolen from the Clinton campaign just minutes after The Washington Post published the “Access Hollywood” tape. Bannon described that chain of events as the “Billy Bush weekend” — a reference to Trump bragging about grabbing women by the p..

    Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth..

    “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
    –Winston Churchill

    1. Truth is irreducible, it is absolute in its existence. It is the essence of logic and mathematics.

    2. Ivanka Trump did the same thing as Clinton with emails but they diverted attention from that fact….

    1. If he doesn’t answer the questions or even show up. He should be impeached, disbarred, and prosecuted.

  8. Stay strong America, …….Trump hopefully will be gone in November
    Republicans will know longer be silent, they’ll be out
    Vote 2020 make America the people’s country again
    Make America great 😧 again……🙏 4u 🗽

    1. Jay Smith It called aiding and abetting🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

    1. @Ralph Boyd – I can think of a couple of reasons.
      1) Maybe Trump/Bar/the Administration, doesn’t think they will be in Power after the Election? 🤷🏽‍♂️
      2) It has taken this long to get this accomplished? 🤷🏽‍♂️
      3) It would look even more Political if Trump had just come out and Pardoned Stone and the other Convicts? 🤷🏽‍♂️

    2. @Eric Echols Sr. it’s obvious that they don’t believe they’ll be in power after the election, but they still could have done this after the election with the high political price. It’s like Trump is going to book before the Convention.

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