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Kid Berwyn

(21,885 posts)
6. Like dat overlapping circles thing, Bill Barr is.
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:24 AM
Jul 30

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 nation’s chief law enforcement officer by President Donald Trump—who had been looking for his own Roy Cohn—had refused to hand over an unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report and had ducked a committee hearing the previous week because Democrats had insisted on allowing the committee’s 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 party’s 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 Mueller’s report—twice: with the four-page letter he wrote purportedly summarizing the report’s 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. (Mueller’s report said that was a matter for Congress to handle.) Barr said Trump had cooperated fully. (Trump had refused to be interviewed.) He echoed Trump’s 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 prosecute—and rendered no judgment on “collusion.”) And Barr, unsurprisingly, had not mentioned that Mueller’s report cited numerous lies from Trump and his crew about their interactions with Russia and Moscow’s 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 “ridiculous”—which is precisely what Russia was claiming at the time. Trump’s embrace and promotion of Moscow disinformation was not a crime—but Mueller included it in his narrative.

Mueller’s report lays out the curious series of interactions between Trump associates and Russia throughout the 2016 contest—showing that the campaign even attempted to establish a back-channel connection to Putin’s 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 we’ve stayed away…We could make deals in Russia very easily if we wanted to, I just don’t 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 Barr’s confirmation hearing, he was mostly peppered with questions about how he would handle the Mueller Report. Senator Ben Sasse’s (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, Barr’s father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattan’s 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 York’s 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 Williams–in–Dead Poets Society type of figure, wowing his high-school classes with passionate mathematical riffs.” Epstein’s 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



Big Fixer.

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Nickie Dogs tries the Maxwell gambit NBachers Jul 30 #1
Lotta rich friends, dat guy Epstein had. Kid Berwyn Jul 30 #4
Keep em coming malaise Jul 30 #5
Epstein said Barr, Protector of the BFEE, called the shots -- not Donnie Dipshit Kid Berwyn Jul 30 #8
Is he still malaise Jul 30 #9
Russell Vought may've picked up the torch. Kid Berwyn Jul 30 #13
Good read malaise Jul 30 #20
Barr visited the Manhattan jail, arrangements were made. Barr left and soon... brush Jul 30 #29
Bill's father, Donald Barr employed Epstein as a math teacher speak easy Jul 30 #17
Monsters all malaise Jul 30 #18
Small world. Kid Berwyn Jul 30 #21
bad link speak easy Jul 30 #22
He really liked to be around children. Kid Berwyn Jul 30 #25
Oh, this guy is so organized crime. harumph Jul 30 #2
he was appointed in the 1st place cuz he knew how to bury bodies. mopinko Jul 30 #3
Like dat overlapping circles thing, Bill Barr is. Kid Berwyn Jul 30 #6
Bill Barr moved him to a different cell. Did he give him a key to Epstein's and his Autumn Jul 30 #7
Some reports indicate H2O Man Jul 30 #10
Sounds about par for the course. Barr always gets away with it. Autumn Jul 30 #14
Don't know. Do know the CCTV was on the fritz before it was erased. Kid Berwyn Jul 30 #19
Recommended. H2O Man Jul 30 #11
Look! It's an enigma! Kid Berwyn Jul 30 #24
Gosh, that sounds so believable. Not. H2O Man Jul 30 #27
K&R UTUSN Jul 30 #12
hulking cellmate gfarber Jul 30 #15
Nothing Nicholas Tartaglione says should be believed. Wiz Imp Jul 30 #16
SICKO -Bill Barr's father - sounds like a pedo womanofthehills Jul 30 #23
The more we find out about the Epstein Affair, and all the sleazy characters involved, the more opaque things become. sop Jul 30 #26
Bill Barr went to NYC the day before that first alleged suicide attempt. RockRaven Jul 30 #28
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