I feel like it would be much more satisfying to kill it. That or setup a thread for it to post in that is locked for anyone but TrumpBot as a symbol of Trump continuing to post his outrages into nothingness.
to be fair, and i hate being fair because fuck him, barr was given the order from the president very clearly to fabricate evidence against obama/biden and he hasn’t. if trump is openly groaning about it on twitter and in news interviews you know he told barr dozens of times to charge them anyway. barr is sticking to the most political damage he can do without doing what trump really wants, which is to embarrass the doj by having them lie to the court and get caught for sure because people are gonna leak and shit. and he’s doing this because putin told him to destroy america’s credibility as much as possible, honestly like wtf is his game plan here? like i understand why he’s saying lock them up for politics in public but why tell barr in private and why get mad at him when he won’t? i’m sure barr wants to lock obama up too just for being a democrat, but without evidence he’s playing the best hand he’s got doing exactly what he’s doing.
you don’t have to be very smart to have seen this coming. did he think sessions was a dope and he’s smart enough to manage trump? probably. the hubris got him. and he’s gonna live out his old age hated by 99.99% of the people who’ve ever heard his name
I think this is sort of correct, but Barr’s problem is that much of the DOJ has revolted and he cannot unilaterally order the content of investigations to turn out a certain way. If I were working at the DOJ I would want every order from Barr or his flunkies confirmed in an email or letter “just to be sure”. Where Barr has has something like unilateral authority (“summarizing” the Mueller report, traveling to interview foreign sources about potential leads), he has acted above any beyond the call of duty on behalf of Trump. He’s just boxed in by the fact that he can’t make a dog appear to be a bear.
Why you make it complicated? I don’t spit on the side walk, I don’t throw trash on the street or sidewalks, I pick up after my dog, I signal when I’m gonna make a turn and I put my shopping cart back at the cart station. And I’m the bad guy?
Here’s Huge Hewitt, Oct. 1, 2019, on the disaster of impeachment and how the Durham report will wreck Biden, with a bonus book plug for Kimberly Strassel.
So sudden was the pivot to all things Ukraine that Democrats such as presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts scrambled to articulate conflict-of-interest policies that would prevent another Hunter Biden scenario down the road. Piecing together a chronology of Biden the Younger’s dealings and his many other woes relative to his father’s travels, actions and pronouncements, plus reactions to that chronology when understood from all Democratic candidates and, of course, the president’s Twitter feed, will take weeks. This preliminary effort portends what National Review’s Jim Geraghty predicted will become the political equivalent of the Battle of the Somme.
But “the Bidens and Burisma” represent only the first wave of over-the-top frontal assaults. If the Democrats are driven by their crazed base to actually passing an article of impeachment, the political earthquakes will have just begun. McConnell has shown time and time again that when Democrats sow the wind, he will oblige them to reap the whirlwind. This will not be a replay of President Bill Clinton’s impeachment “trial” of January 1999, which came after the public voted its displeasure. (There is one good thing embedded in the Democrats’ frenzy: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s strategy of a “narrow impeachment inquiry” contains an implicit but very definite concession of “No collusion. No obstruction.” Turns out Democrats are admitting the Mueller inquiry of two years came up empty.)
The Democrats have set the stage not for Trump’s removal from the Oval Office but for an epic denouement of the battle that has gripped the Manhattan-Beltway elites since the shock of November 2016. That upset had profound effects on the left. It shattered their certainty that their “side of history” would triumph, just as Iran’s refusal to act as a normal nation ought to have shattered their confidence in the genius of the JCPOA. The left has lost any sense of how it is perceived in the land outside the Beltway. It has lost the ability to be serious about serious things, such as Iran’s attack and our allies’ response.
Only shock therapy can save the Democrats, and it is coming. A Justice Department inspector general report into surveillance of American citizens based on the Steele dossier is coming. If indictments are warranted, U.S. Attorney John Durham will be bringing them.And a deep dive into Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma, and its well-connected board member named Biden, is imminent.A new book by The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel, Resistance (At All Costs), which comes out Oct. 15, will shape the political battlefield in the United States because it will be lifted up to enduring bestseller status by center-right media as the condensed and accurate retelling of the events of 2016 until today.