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In reply to the discussion: Bill Barr assigned psycho killer cop as Epstein's first cell mate. [View all]Kid Berwyn
(21,885 posts)6. Like dat overlapping circles thing, Bill Barr is.
A regular Benmo Diaphragm, like.
How Bill Barr Is Helping Trump Escape the Russia Scandal
The White House would rather have a fight over contempt than betrayal.
by David Corn
Mother Jones, May 12, 2019
On Wednesday, the Democratic-controlled House Judiciary Committee voted to proceed with a contempt resolution against Attorney General Bill Barr. The man installed as the nations chief law enforcement officer by President Donald Trumpwho had been looking for his own Roy Cohnhad refused to hand over an unredacted version of special counsel Robert Muellers final report and had ducked a committee hearing the previous week because Democrats had insisted on allowing the committees counsel to question Barr. The contempt vote, committee Democrats say, was a demonstration of Democratic unity (among a caucus divided on the question of impeaching Trump) and a signal to the partys base and others that the Dems, as they face an obdurate Trump administration bent on stymying congressional investigations, are willing to punch back. But they may be punching in the wrong direction and, consequently, helping Trump escape the Russia scandal.
Barr is a convenient target for the Democrats. He misled the public about Muellers reporttwice: with the four-page letter he wrote purportedly summarizing the reports conclusions, and the press conference he held before the report was released. Barr downplayed the evidence related to the question of whether Trump had committed obstruction of justice and said Mueller had handed him the decision on whether Trump had committed this crime. (Muellers report said that was a matter for Congress to handle.) Barr said Trump had cooperated fully. (Trump had refused to be interviewed.) He echoed Trumps mantra of no collusion. (Mueller had investigated whether there had been any criminal conspiracy related to the Russian attack on the 2016 election and found nothing to prosecuteand rendered no judgment on collusion.) And Barr, unsurprisingly, had not mentioned that Muellers report cited numerous lies from Trump and his crew about their interactions with Russia and Moscows assault on the United States.
An attorney general spinning for a president who might have criminally obstructed justice is important. But, arguably, it is not as important as what has prompted all this hubbub: the Trump-Russia scandal itself.
The Mueller report reaffirms the core elements of what is probably the most consequential political scandal in American history. Russia, it notes, waged a sweeping and systematic attack on a US presidential election. And, Mueller notes, Trump and his campaign, while publicly denying this attack was underway, sought to benefit from it. As the report states, during the campaign, Trump called this whole thing with Russia a total deflection and said that the notion Moscow was intervening in the election was farfetched and ridiculouswhich is precisely what Russia was claiming at the time. Trumps embrace and promotion of Moscow disinformation was not a crimebut Mueller included it in his narrative.
Muellers report lays out the curious series of interactions between Trump associates and Russia throughout the 2016 contestshowing that the campaign even attempted to establish a back-channel connection to Putins office after public reports that Moscow was behind the hack-and-dump attacks mounted against Democrats and the Hillary Clinton campaign. Additionally, the report details how Trump lied to the public about his secret efforts during the campaign to develop a Trump tower project in Moscow. (After 10 months of negotiations, the project fizzled out once Trump essentially secured the Republican presidential nomination in June 2016.) The report points out that Trump continued to lie about this deal after he won the election. It cites a remark he made at a press conference days before moving into the White House: I have no deals that could happen in Russia, because weve stayed away We could make deals in Russia very easily if we wanted to, I just dont want to because I think that would be a conflict.
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/how-bill-barr-is-helping-trump-escape-the-russia-scandal/

Barr is a fixer for the GOP, CIA, Mafia, Reagan, Poppy Bush, Baby Doc Bush, Trump, Epstein, etc etc etc. BFEE
The Ties That Bind Jeffrey Epstein, William Barr & Donald Trump
Todd Neikirk
Hill Reporter, May 19, 2019
During Attorney General, William Barrs confirmation hearing, he was mostly peppered with questions about how he would handle the Mueller Report. Senator Ben Sasses (R-NE) questioning, however, diverged from the pack. Sasse asked Barr about the lenient sentence given out to billionaire pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. The future Attorney General told Sasse that he would look into the matter.
This, however, was not the first connection between Barr and his family and the disgraced pedophile. In 1973, Barrs father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattans Dalton School, hired Epstein as a calculus and physics teacher.
While hiring Epstein, a noted mathematics genius, was not strange on its face, the hire was unusual for a number of reasons. Epstein had not earned a college degree as he dropped out of New Yorks prestigious Cooper Union. The other odd circumstance was that the new teacher was only 20 years of age.
Apparently, the hire was a successful one. The New Yorker wrote in a 2003 profile on Epstein, he was something of a Robin WilliamsinDead Poets Society type of figure, wowing his high-school classes with passionate mathematical riffs. Epsteins mathematical skills caught the eye of Bear Stearns chairman, Alan Ace Greenberg, whose son attended the Dalton School. Greenberg hired Epstein as an options trader and the former teacher was able to amass a fortune.
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https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-william-barr-donald-trump-34107
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Epstein said Barr, Protector of the BFEE, called the shots -- not Donnie Dipshit
Kid Berwyn
Jul 30
#8
Bill Barr moved him to a different cell. Did he give him a key to Epstein's and his
Autumn
Jul 30
#7