Donald Trump

ikiT

Spread it SLOWWWWWW.

He MAD contagious with the Covid yo, AND jacked up on 'roids.  

what could go wrong?

ikiT

You can't make this shit up...

https://instagram.com/p/CGQxkQXnGgF/embed/

Bentleyspop

josevolution said:

Worst human to ever occupy the WH it’s not even close, he’s literally dancing while Americans are dying at over 600 a per day!

As a human I find this insulting 

Ledbetterman10

Merkin Baller

Ledbetterman10 said:

Dancing on the graves of 200K+ dead Americans, good stuff!!!

Ledbetterman10

Oh don't be so morbid. It's just meant to be another example of his awkward dancing. 

josevolution

Bentleyspop said:

josevolution said:

Worst human to ever occupy the WH it’s not even close, he’s literally dancing while Americans are dying at over 600 a per day!

As a human I find this insulting 

True dat i can’t say animals either they are too precious! Maybe maggot fits better to describe him! 

Merkin Baller

Don't take everything so seriously, I said "good stuff".

Jeez

Ledbetterman10

Merkin Baller said:

Don't take everything so seriously, I said "good stuff".

Jeez

Oh. Good one!

Gern Blansten

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1316082960051965952

A good indicator...

Halifax2TheMax

Gern Blansten said:

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1316082960051965952

A good indicator...

Because they’re digging so much coal.

stuckinline

Gern Blansten said:

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1316082960051965952

A good indicator...

Can anyone explain why he has his fist raised with the sour expression on his face?

RunIntoTheRain

I was happy to see Romney speak out
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-senator-romney-calls-out-trump-and-vile-us-politics/ar-BB19YNmb?ocid=msedgntp

Gern Blansten

RunIntoTheRain said:

I was happy to see Romney speak out
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-senator-romney-calls-out-trump-and-vile-us-politics/ar-BB19YNmb?ocid=msedgntp

me too....and again, it's amazing to me that the last two GOP candidates (pre-tRump) both oppose tRump.  

How the people that voted for McCain and Romney can still support tRump just blows my mind.

DewieCox

stuckinline said:

Gern Blansten said:

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1316082960051965952

A good indicator...

Can anyone explain why he has his fist raised with the sour expression on his face?

No room to goosestep.

mickeyrat

about Barr really but he IS Trumps AG.....

https://billmoyers.com/story/the-long-read-barr-battles-the-rule-of-law/

The Long Read: Barr Battles the Rule of Law

BY Steven Harper | October 8, 2020

The Long Read: Barr Battles the Rule of Law

US Attorney General William Barr listens during the International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference and Exposition at the McCormick Place Convention Center October 28, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

This article appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Litigation – The Journal of the Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association.

“With your law degrees, you will have immense power to do great harm,” Harvard Law Professor Duncan Kennedy admonished our one-L torts class in 1976.

A few months later, former President Richard M. Nixon (JD, Duke, ’37) — who thought Watergate had been a political “witch hunt” — uttered his infamous line, “Well, when the president does it, that means it is not illegal.” And his former attorney general, John N. Mitchell (JD, Fordham, ’38), was headed to prison.

More than 40 years after that class, United States Attorney General William P. Barr (JD, George Washington, ’77) has driven home the gravity of Prof. Kennedy’s admonition. When the story of the Trump era is written, history will pose a single defining question to every American lawyer: In the fight to preserve the rule of law, which side were you on?

America has seen which side William Barr is on. As the nation’s top law enforcement officer, the attorney general represents the “People of the United States.” Early in his tenure, Barr jettisoned that role.

Operating as Trump’s personal advocate, Barr has abused the power of his office to undermine the Trump-Russia investigation. Although troublesome, Barr’s actions are best viewed as a case study in his modus operandi. What Barr has done to that investigation and its key players, he can do to anything and anyone. That makes Barr’s methods ominous for the rule of law itself.

Hiring Barr was no accident. Early in 2017, before special counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment, Trump feared that he was losing control of the Trump-Russia investigation. He was furious at then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ (JD, Alabama, 73) for recusing himself from the ongoing probe. Referring to his former personal attorney, notorious fixer, and top aide to Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-WI) during the investigations of communist activity in the 1950s, Trump lamented, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?”

A year later, he got his answer. Barr sent Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (JD, Harvard, ’89) an unsolicited 19-page memo challenging the premise of Mueller’s obstruction of justice investigation and urging that the special counsel should not even be permitted to question Trump. In William Barr, Trump had finally found his Roy Cohn.

First came the lies and deceptions. According to The Washington Post, as of July 9, 2020, Trump had made more than 20,000 “false or misleading claims” since assuming office. Like Trump, Barr understands the rhetorical and psychological concepts of primacy and repetition. Whoever speaks first and most frequently on an important topic has the upper hand in controlling the resulting narrative, regardless of its veracity.

From his first days in office, Barr has reinforced Trump’s false assertions that the Trump-Russia investigation never should have happened. In the maelstrom that followed, truth became a casualty. So it’s important to start with a brief reprise of the Mueller report’s key conclusions:

“[T]he Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome.” (Vol. I, p. 5)

The Trump campaign “expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.” (Vol. I, p. 5)

Trump tried repeatedly to obstruct the investigation into his campaign ties to Russia.

And Mueller concluded, “[I]f we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment… Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” (Vol. II, p. 2)

Barr’s dissembling prevented the truth from gaining traction. Two days after Mueller gave Barr his final report confidentially — including summaries suitable for public dissemination — Barr sent a letter to Congress with his own misleading “summary” of Mueller’s findings. It was so deceptive that Mueller himself complained to Barr immediately, saying that Barr’s letter “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this Office’s work and conclusions.” The result, Mueller wrote, “is public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation.”

The Trump – Russia Timeline

But public confusion was the objective because it led to public indifference. For another three weeks, Barr did not release even a redacted version of Mueller’s report, and Mueller’s dissenting letter to Barr did not surface until two weeks after that. During the intervening month-and-a-half, Barr’s mischaracterizations became the only story of Mueller’s findings, and they stuck. Primacy gave Barr the edge and repetition then took over.

Immediately, Trump used Barr’s spin to reinforce his big lie. “No collusion, No obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION,” Trump tweeted — three lies in a single post.

Then Barr made things worse — or from Trump’s perspective, better. Two hours before releasing a redacted version of Mueller’s report, Barr held a press conference to spin its conclusions again. He repeated Trump’s false “no collusion” meme four times.

On obstruction, Barr also made this disingenuous claim: “The White House fully cooperated with the special counsel’s investigation, providing unfettered access to campaign and White House documents, directing senior aides to testify freely, and asserting no privilege claims. And at the same time, the president took no act that in fact deprived the special counsel of the documents and witnesses necessary to complete his investigation.”

Here’s the truth:

From its inception, Trump attacked Mueller’s investigation and repeatedly pressured then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and White House counsel Don McGahn (JD, Widener, ’94) to curtail or terminate it. (Vol. II, pp. 77-120)

Trump refused Mueller’s requests for an interview. (Vol. II, pp. C-1-2)

Mueller said Trump’s written answers to his questions were “inadequate.” (Vol. II, C-2)

Trump dangled pardons aimed at influencing key witnesses, including his former national security adviser Mike Flynn, former campaign chairman Paul Manafort (JD, Georgetown, ’74), and a person whose name was initially redacted from Mueller’s report but who we now know is Trump’s longtime confidant, Roger Stone. Trump also tried to influence and intimidate his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen (JD, Thomas M. Cooley, ’91). (Vol. II, pp. 120-156)

The Rule of Law

In 1789, Thomas Jefferson wrote that a well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to democracy. Barr kneecapped the truth. When the redacted version of Mueller’s report finally appeared, The Washington Post awarded him “Three Pinocchios” for his “incomplete or misleading” descriptions of Mueller’s investigation and conclusions. But Barr had withheld even a redacted version so long that his false spin had irrevocably infected the body politic.

Fortunately, the rule of law has courageous defenders who honor the oath that every attorney takes to uphold the rule of law. In an opinion on a Freedom of Information Act request for an unredacted copy of Mueller’s report, U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton blasted Barr’s pre-release “distortions” and “lack of candor.” In a remarkable ruling, the respected federal judge wrote that he could not trust the attorney general of the United States:

“The speed by which Attorney General Barr released to the public the summary of Special Counsel Mueller’s principal conclusions, coupled with the fact that Attorney General Barr failed to provide a thorough representation of the findings in the Mueller Report, causes the Court to question whether Attorney General Barr’s intent was to create a one-sided narrative about the Mueller Report — a narrative that is clearly in some respects substantively at odds with the redacted version of the Mueller Report.” (Elec. Privacy Info. Ctr. v. US Dept. of Justice, No-19-810 RBW, slip op. p. 17-18 (D.D.C. Mar 5, 2020)

Judge Walton could not reconcile “certain public representations made by Attorney General Barr with the findings in the Mueller Report.” The inconsistencies caused him “to seriously question whether Attorney General Barr made a calculated attempt to influence public discourse about the Mueller Report in favor of President Trump despite certain findings in the redacted version of the Mueller Report to the contrary.” (Op. p. 19)

The court’s Mar. 5, 2020 rebuke came a year too late. As Jonathan Swift wrote more than two centuries ago, “Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.” With Barr’s help, Trump created a narrative that was at odds with the evidence set forth in Mueller’s report. Barr had fired his first bullet at the rule of law and it was a bulls-eye.

continues.....

HughFreakingDillon

barr will be remembered as a total disgrace to the profession. 

Halifax2TheMax

HughFreakingDillon said:

barr will be remembered as a total disgrace to the profession. 

And as a hero for the “cause.”

mickeyrat

Halifax2TheMax said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

barr will be remembered as a total disgrace to the profession. 

And as a hero for the “cause.”

I wonder if he can be disbarred for his actions as ag?

HughFreakingDillon

mickeyrat said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

barr will be remembered as a total disgrace to the profession. 

And as a hero for the “cause.”

I wonder if he can be disbarred for his actions as ag?

i'm sure technically he can, but it would have to be pretty egregious for the bar to do that to an attorney general of the US.