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'Guilty': Trump DOJ Trying To Reverse Key Mueller Conviction | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC
as my stomach turns and the circus continues along with a carnival.
i have had it. if you dont vote for your local and presidential elections for the other than republicans you get what you deserve.
Trump 2020. He is the best President America deserve. He is the don, the patron, and no dem can even come close because you will get wacked. He’s the American dream.
Susan Rose WTF What is Trump? Do you Have Proof Of Child molester? NOT
Up Your’s Then where would the Republicans Get Their WELFARE From???
Jeff Taylor UNEDUCATED, 🤔
Wale Choi TROLL
Based on this logic, let’s release all criminals who pleaded guilty under oath.
@LORD EXPLOSION MURDER!! DAMMIT! Flynn is not some down and out street kid or mental patient, railroaded into a guilty plea by an overworked public defender or over zealous prosecutor. Flynn had a well funded and enthusiastic defense team.
@foreigner fan Flynn is not some down and out street kid or mental patient, railroaded into a guilty plea by an overworked public defender or over zealous prosecutor. Flynn had a well funded and enthusiastic defense team.
@Octavio Rodriguez Has your mind changed since all the facts have come out now? Or are you still ignoring the truth? #OBAMAGATE
@Edward Neuman #obamagate
@AkJonny1965 #obamagate
The next administration should audit this administration, including barr.
@Victor Johnson Barr and all Donald Trump criminal rats cronies must go direct to prison!🔒🔒🔒🛠🛠
The entire society suffers when good, honest, righteous, men and women standby and do nothing.
@honey badger of truth
Drumpfs dad should have never slid into home.
Now, no one is safe.
honey badger of the truth
How does trumps nut sac taste?
The Handsome Supreme Lord Emperor Donald J. Trump
He won’t be winning after November!
In any sane country Michael Flynn would be in prison for life, for high treason and corruption, and so would William Barr.
@Frank Carpenter <- covidiot
@Octavio Rodriguez MSNBC!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Send Flynn and barr to China, China will shoot them both in the head and charge their families for the bullets. Justice is served. China has a superior justice system compared to the corrupt American system where rich and powerful criminals get off all the time.
@Andrew S I wealthy, zi don’t have to deal with criminal pathological liar in the white house, a fraud Ss Hole Donald Trump!🔒🔒🔒
What trailer park you came from?
Yes, so right, so right.
Absolute corruption!!
Putin’s boy Donny is turning Putin’s worst adversary (U.S.A.) into a lowly banana republic. Putin can’t believe how good his boy Donny is destroying the US !!!
I think the Plan is to cause so much turmoil that Russia and China will have to send humanitarian troops to restore order.
This is so heart breaking for the democracy of America.
Please just give me break hhhh a criminal trying to save a criminal
honour among thieves
Trump and his accomplices rewriting history and breaking the rule of law wherever they can.
“1984” the book.
Stop calling it ‘alleged abuse of the justice department’. It’s blindingly obvious corruption of the justice department.
@Ellyseum LOL. You are scratching around……watch the news this week sweetie. Doesn’t look good. Wait for the Durham report.
@R L T Aww you sound butthurt. Newsflash, sweetie, nobody cares about the “Durham report”, and it won’t change the fact that Trump campaign openly colluded with Russia, and was subsequently impeached for trying to strongarm Ukraine into helping them. Now he has more American deaths than Vietnam on his record, and was handed a perfect economy and turned it into the Great Depression 2.0 due to his incompetence. Lost the House in 2018, turned deep red Virginia into a blue state, turned Texas into a toss-up, and the GOP is doing so bad in some states they do not even have a single win. Good luck in 2020!
@Ellyseum Biden is a formidable candidate for sure. 4 years well spent. Thanks for that.
R L T WTF perjury Trap, TRUMP AND GOP BARR and FLYNN do LYING all by themselves.
R L T Trump and GOP are scared Biden is 9 points over TRUMP and now TRUMP wants to take his campaign manager to court for him losing in polls, also TRUMP is mad at FOX NEWS because they are starting to put real poll numbers out.
Trump and his Administration are corrupt to the core. Can’t wait for November!! Vote Blue!!!
Most people watching MSNBC and CNN don’t care about truth or justice. Trying to set up a guy who fought for our country just to get trump out of office is unacceptable.
@Joe PalefaceI think Paleface is blind from staring into the Sun.
@GoT fan 2320 YOU GOT PLAYED…YOUR EITHER BRAINWASHED..OR NOT AN AMERICAN..OR BOTH
@Joe Paleface Na Na Na Na Na. you know the tune, or do you? Comrade Igor?
@GoT fan 2320 Really sad..I can’t believe how many fell for that Russia crap..SCARY…China is the real threat..For 200 hundreds years the Dem use fear and hate for votes. 50 years of the cold war with Russia and Dem politicians using the fact Russia had nukes to sway opinions..Remember Russia and U.S were partners against Hitler saving the world.Do you know Russia and U S are partners is space..U S and Russia have enough nukes to destroy the world over 1000 times.They need to be open with one another.Remember the missile crisis in Cuba. Dem politician knew if they use Russia against Trump the people would freak out..What Obama did weaponizing FBI DOJ CIA to take out an elected president, and a 4 star general because he wouldn’t lie for Obama and spied on Americans using the power of FBI DOJ to set people up is TREASON. Obama Clinton Biden selling out U S to China is the real threat.Far left media that are owned by far left people who admit not liking U S are dividing the country. The U S should have been in charge of pandemic research not China..Again Obama Clinton sold out US to China for personal greed.Fake media is the enemy of the people..If they were honest there would be a lid on corruption
It’s strange to see the fall of Rome in real time.
@kulhuk 7 First, much of Rome’s decline originated with the country’s decline in morals, government corruption and political instability. Second here is an article the outlines Rome’s fall. Let’s hope someone is not debating our fall in the not to distant future.
https://www.history.com/news/8-reasons-why-rome-fell
@dalight maiso No, but they brushed their teeth with stale urine, for the whitening effect of ammonia. Of course, they weren’t stupid enough to DRINK the stuff.
this ain’t no ROme, never was, NEVER will be. Just FYI 🙂
@Mo Fungo It aren’t no UGandA nor neither, though we do have a fat narcissist in charge.
We are living real live history. It will be very interesting to see how the historians record this behaviour.
The bottomless swamp. Republicans who voted for this administration voted for corruption. America is crumbling.
not if durham indicts the scum
It’s reported that the Pew Research Center finds the world still favours the US but under the current administration, it has lost its credibility and leadership worldwide.
Your right Perry perrie ,’we ‘ do think the US overall is fine but your current administration definitely has to go ASAP there is no bottom where they are concerned they just keep on digging
@Sandra Ramshaw from UK , i see US has a corrupt government, where you pay a representative to vote for your interests over the countries. the president can and does appoint incompetent people to positions of power, the judicial system is a joke, they jail far more than any other country. the police force are armed thugs who shoot first ask questions later, the education system is woefully underfunded, you go bankrupt because you are ill.
How do we call it a Justice Department when there is no justice.
double standdard law..joe shmo cit gets regular law…people holding gov offices get different law…
Melissa Tinsley you spelled it wrong it’s the
‘just us’ department
umm, how can we call the most notorious criminal in history a president !
It’s the “Ministry of Truth” concept, used by so many autocracies for their propaganda arm.
Melissa Tinsley DOJ stands for Department Of Jackasses NOW
This will teach America that electing stupid is dangerous and your mistakes have consequences!
Trump was NOT elected. He highjacked the election & Russia helped put him there. Idky everyone seems to forget this very important FACT.
Yes! And we’re paying dearly.
I wish I could believe that. Sadly, the capacity of some people to learn is comparable to that of the person they voted for.
His oath like trumps, means nothing.
#disbarBarr
trump is a crook. Im not surprised about anything he or his cronies are doing to this country.
@Legal Eagle not proving anything to a trump eagle. Shut up!
Singing Justice prove it for yourself. And don’t police my speech. 1st amendment, remember?
Trump is easily the most corrupt occupant of the White House ever.
@Legal Eagle shut up you little trumpian underling.
Martin Nolan proof?
You just have to realize that the government is corrupt…
J M And yet so many people want to hand the government more power though socialism and abolishment of 1st and second amendments (and other amendments). Makes no sense.
And then do something about it.
Legal Eagle I bet you cashed that stimulus check sent to you from a socialist bailout to help American People??
then do something about the cancer in our administration/government, speak up or run for office
Vote this corrupt president out, and put him in prison where he belongs.
@ATM GUY the phrase is actually “don’t throw rocks if you live in a glass house..”
From the WH straight into prison
@ATM GUY oh shut up
B. Ciernioch @ tell me what crimes he has committed? The Dems have investigated him before he took office. Promises made, promises kept. I guess you didn’t like the unemployment number when it was at 3%.. Your candidate Biden can’t even remember what he’s running for.
@ATM GUY facts say otherwise russian bot
The rest of the world: Everyone shaking heads and laughing at the crazy reality TV show that is ‘Murica for the last 3 1/2 years.
@stee with2ees thanks for caring. We are suffering the worst case scenario right now. It sucks really bad. Unfortunately there are a lot of Americans that just don’t care about how many of us are going to die due to our fed gov bunglings.
@James Evans appreciate the reply but I know how easy it is for me to sit here and make platitudes as regardless of how genuine they are its you guys that are suffering. I am sure that there are a lot of people that do not care but so much of your country seems to be so subject to polarisation that those exposed to right wing media may ultimately be victims first and foremost of the outrageous misinformation presented by the WH admin.
Regardless of whether one identifies as blue, red or purple you all deserve better than the crooks and liars (which, as awful as Trump and his cronies are exist on both sides) who see you all as nothing more than second class citizens.
I know you are an amazing country with some of the most capable and amazing people – it is just a shame so few of them are elected to office to represent this.
Stay safe and stay well!
Sunflower Watermelon Sugar High
Not laughing. This is how I feel, watching from Norway👉🤨☹️🥺😫🤬😳🤔🤢🥴(this one is just for trump🤮)😵😲😬🙄
Sunflower Watermelon Sugar High
Ok…..trump gets these too👉🤬☹️🤨🥴🤮🥺😵😫🤢👿
James Evan
Absolutely disgusting. Our government is decaying at an alarming rate.
(R)