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In his efforts to diminish the Mueller investigation, Barr lied to Congress, leading to accusations of perjury from members of Congress. During an April 9 hearing of a House Appropriations Committee—after the release of the Barr summary and prior to the release of the Mueller report itself—Barr was asked by Rep. Charlie Crist: “Reports have emerged recently, General, that members of the special counsel’s team are frustrated at some level with the limited information included in your March 24 letter, that it does not adequately or accurately, necessarily, portray the report’s findings. Do you know what they’re referencing with that?” Barr replied directly: “No, I don’t.” This was false. Barr had just two weeks earlier received a letter from Mueller stating that his summary “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions.”
• That April 2019 committee appearance, during which he lied, was the last time Barr testified before the House. He backed out of a scheduled appearance that May, because he didn’t want to be questioned by a staff attorney. Since then, the administration—backed by legal arguments from the DOJ—has wholesale refused countless subpoenas for documents and testimony related to executive misconduct, including in the impeachment inquiry.
• The Department of Justice has denied that Barr had anything to do with the Ukraine extortion scheme, but when Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for investigations of Trump’s political rivals in a July 25 call, the president also explicitly encouraged Zelensky to reach out to Barr. Former National Security Adviser John Bolton reportedly writes in his book that he warned the attorney general that Barr was mentioned on the call. (The DOJ has denied this account.)
Instead of recusing himself from this obvious conflict of interest, Barr has used the powers of the DOJ to cover up for Trump at turn after turn. First, the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel blocked a whistleblower complaint about the Ukraine affair from being sent to Congress, in direct contravention of the law. Then, his DOJ crafted a legal rationale for Trump soliciting election interference in that call, an apparent crime, and refused to even investigate it. Then, the DOJ crafted and offered the threadbare legal rationale for Trump’s unprecedented blockade of all congressional subpoenas in the impeachment inquiry.
Finally, after impeachment ended, Barr set up a special process for his own department to do what Trump had tried to get Ukraine to do: investigate unfounded allegations of criminality by Joe Biden, including the claims of Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, the point person in Trump’s Ukraine solicitation scheme.
• Perhaps nowhere has Barr been more effective and persistent than in his efforts to validate the president’s claims that the Russia investigation was a political hit job. During April testimony, Barr told a Senate committee that Trump’s campaign was spied on by the Obama administration, a position that mirrored the president’s and for which no evidence has been produced. After DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz found that there was no evidence that the FBI had spied on the Trump campaign, Barr publicly disagreed with that conclusion. He also claimed falsely that Horowitz never “decided the issue of improper motive” by senior Obama officials when Horowitz’s report clearly stated his investigation “did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced” the investigation.
• In addition to the inspector general’s investigation, Barr appointed a hand-selected attorney, John Durham, to investigate the actions of top Obama officials in the Russia investigation. Top Trump allies in recent days have, along with the president, increased calls for prosecutions of top Obama officials in that case. The New York Times on Thursday reported that Durham’s investigation has recently focused on former CIA Director John O. Brennan, a regular target of Trump’s tirades. Last month, the Times also reported that former FBI Director James Comey was under criminal investigation in a case surrounding years-old leaks.
• When Barr testified before a Senate committee in April, he suggested that the various investigations he was launching against the previous administration might not result in prosecutions but could instead result in DOJ putting “in rules or prophylaxes against” future investigations of potential wrongdoing by political campaigns. Earlier this month, he fulfilled that promise, announcing that all investigations of 2020 political campaigns must go through him. The move makes Trump’s loyal defender the sole arbiter of whether potential criminal behavior by the president or his campaign will even be investigated, and whether Trump’s political rivals might face politically motivated targeting themselves.
How Long It Has Been Going On: Barr’s efforts to protect Trump from investigation have been going on since before he joined the administration. In fact, they were probably how he got the job. In June 2018, Barr sent the Department of Justice an unsolicited memo arguing that Mueller was wrong to investigate Trump for obstruction of justice. Six months later, Barr was Trump’s pick to replace Sessions.
More generally, Barr has been a handmaiden to power since the 1980s, when he worked his way up the George H.W. Bush DOJ to eventually become Bush’s attorney general. The Village Voice in 1992 covered much of Barr’s extensive record of apparent misconduct during that time, but none was so blatant as his crafting of the pardons for Bush associates in the Iran-Contra scandal. With Trump already laying the groundwork to pardon cronies convicted by Mueller, such as Stone and Paul Manafort, expect Barr to put his Iran-Contra experience to use at some point in the not-too-distant future.
What Would Normally Happen: Under ordinary times, Barr likely never would have been approved by the Senate, once it came out that he had written a memo to a president under investigation for obstruction of justice telling him that there should be no such investigation. Even under norms as recent as those of the first year of Trump’s presidency, Barr certainly would have recused himself from that investigation, as Sessions had done. Many of Barr’s actions taken since—such as the Stone sentencing guideline change, the Ukraine subpoena obstruction, and blocking of the full release of the Mueller report—are unprecedented actions, beyond even the measures taken by Richard Nixon’s deeply corrupt Department of Justice. It’s worth noting here that Nixon’s attorney general, John N. Mitchell, was ultimately investigated and convicted of crimes related to his efforts to cover up Nixon’s own criminality.
In a world where obvious official misconduct still mattered, Barr would have already been impeached and removed as attorney general. At the very least, it would be normal for the House Judiciary Committee to hold hearings into the Stone sentencing situation, calling the four prosecutors who quit the case and Jessie Liu, the former U.S. attorney who was removed from the office just in time for Stone’s sentencing and whose handling of politically significant cases reportedly angered Trump. @irlmusic8001 This is your factual daily reminder that Donald J. Trump is an unindicted felon, a scammer, and a cheat.
Crimes:
Trump Broke The Law In Freezing Ukraine Funds, Watchdog Report Concludes
https://www.npr.org/2020/01...
The Department of Justice Calls Donald Trump a Felon
https://nymag.com/intellige...
Hundreds of former prosecutors say Trump would've been charged with obstruction if he weren't president
https://thehill.com/policy/...
Federal Prosecutors ‘Concluded that President of the United States Committed a Felony’
https://lawandcrime.com/hig...
Fraud:
Donald J. Trump Pays Court-Ordered $2 Million For Illegally Using Trump Foundation Funds
https://ag.ny.gov/press-rel...
Judge finalizes $25 million settlement for 'victims of Donald Trump's fraudulent university'
https://abcnews.go.com/US/j...
Tax evasion:
Trump didn't pay income tax for 10 of 15 years before 2016 election
https://thehill.com/homenew...
How Russian Money Helped Save Trump’s Business
https://foreignpolicy.com/2...
Donald Trump Used Legally Dubious Method to Avoid Paying Taxes
https://www.nytimes.com/201... Last time I checked, it wasn’t Biden’s campaign manger, assistant
campaign manager, strategist, personal attorney, national security
advisor and foreign policy advisor....that are all convicted felons, all
crimes to protect their boss no less
You may want to remember this little list when you cast your vote
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I DO doubt you have the ability to read much of ANYTHING "just fine". I have no "t RUMP hating glasses, fool. What I AM..., is an American patriot who sees the damage the clown is doing and will step forward to stop your fascism. Quit spouting Qnonsense & russian propaganda and maybe you'll get respect, till then, you are just one sorry fight. @robertofurntes1189 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂This is your factual daily reminder that Donald J. Trump is an unindicted felon, a scammer, and a cheat.
Crimes:
Trump Broke The Law In Freezing Ukraine Funds, Watchdog Report Concludes
https://www.npr.org/2020/01...
The Department of Justice Calls Donald Trump a Felon
https://nymag.com/intellige...
Hundreds of former prosecutors say Trump would've been charged with obstruction if he weren't president
https://thehill.com/policy/...
Federal Prosecutors ‘Concluded that President of the United States Committed a Felony’
https://lawandcrime.com/hig...
Fraud:
Donald J. Trump Pays Court-Ordered $2 Million For Illegally Using Trump Foundation Funds
https://ag.ny.gov/press-rel...
Judge finalizes $25 million settlement for 'victims of Donald Trump's fraudulent university'
https://abcnews.go.com/US/j...
Tax evasion:
Trump didn't pay income tax for 10 of 15 years before 2016 election
https://thehill.com/homenew...
How Russian Money Helped Save Trump’s Business
https://foreignpolicy.com/2...
Donald Trump Used Legally Dubious Method to Avoid Paying Taxes
https://www.nytimes.com/201... Last time I checked, it wasn’t Biden’s campaign manger, assistant
campaign manager, strategist, personal attorney, national security
advisor and foreign policy advisor....that are all convicted felons, all
crimes to protect their boss no less
You may want to remember this little list when you cast your vote
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Trump profits on the presidency & how to retrieve these numbers from his adherence to the emoluments clause when forced in court. He's trying to siphon his cash to russian oligarch type protections. There is no doubt that there is corruption on both sides... but Trump is clearly profiting off the presidency like no other politician in history. ⚡Trump will not release his tax forms, so we may never know the amount of money he has siphoned from tax payers, but we can look from the outside and see some of what he is doing to siphon money from the Tax payer.
⚡Trump is the first president since 1976 that won't release his tax forms. Why do you think that is?⚡
There is a reason why presidents release their tax forms and also put their companies in blind trust, so they cannot openly profit from the presidency. Trump has done neither of these things, so we may never know the extent.
But we do know these things:
Every single time he golfs at his own golf resorts, he is putting money in to his own pocket. This is business Trump wouldn't normally have and he's getting it from himself at the taxpayers expense. ⚡Every time he brings in Secret Service to protect him and to stay at one of his luxury hotels, this money goes directly in to his own pocket. No president before Trump has been so bold to openly profit from the presidency... and yet he has somehow convinced some of the American people, that he's losing money as president ???🤣🔫
These numbers come directly from the General accounting office, so we can track some of it.
Just google: Trump Golf Count
Trumps projected visits to golf clubs in four years: 303 (276 so far in just 4 years!) - Sept 2, 2020
Cost to Taxpayers so far: About $141,000,000 (Projected visits in eight years: 605)
According to the General Accounting office ⚡Total times Obama played golf during his eight year Presidency: 306 (for 8 years!)
that is incredibly high, and way out of line, but trump is set to double it!
⚡Obama was not golfing at his own golf course as well, this is a conflict of interest when Trump golfs and stays at his own hotels and golf courses!
Days Trump has spent at Mar a Lago: 127 Cost of flights to Mar a Lago (30 so far): $59,110,000
Days Trump has spent at Bedminster: 85
(Cost of flights to Bedminster (25 so far): $23,515,500)
This is backed by official numbers straight from the general accounting office
So looking at the numbers we can see, Trump has profited at least⚡$223 million from the presidency, that we can see openly. So when he gives the American people back his presidential salary of $400,000 and then gives all his kids high paying jobs in the presidency, people actually think they're getting a deal?🤣
⚡$ How Trump is using his presidency to enrich himself
- He has spent one out of every three days as president visiting one of his luxury resorts, hotels or golf courses at tax payers expense
Google: REPORT: TAXPAYERS HAVE PAID THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION NEARLY $1 MILLION FOR HOTEL ROOMS ALONE
⚡A Chinese state-owned company was awarded a multimillion dollar contract to help develop a Trump golf course in Dubai ⚡ amid a U.S. / China trade war
Google: Chinese Construction Company Inks Deal To Build Trump Golf Course In Dubai
⚡$T-Mobile executives stayed at Trump's Washington hotel while seeking a green light from the federal government for a merger.
Google: T-Mobile executives stayed at Trump’s hotel while merger that needed administration’s approval was pending
⚡The Trump Organization was barred by Congress from seeking relief from the $500 billion rescue fund being administered by the Treasury Department
Google: Trump (the Company) Asks Trump (the Administration) for Hotel Relief
⚡When he goes to one of his properties to golf, he is paying himself with taxpayers money and every one who follows him there, spends money at these places! All of this is going in to his pocket!
⚡The most alarming thing is he has also raised his rent in his hotels per night... from his normal fee ($300 a night) to what is just under the legal limit ... (almost $600 a night) and sometimes even over the legal limit, where he puts up all the secret service is his own HOTEL. All on the taxpayers dime.
Google: Secret Service has paid rates as high as $650 a night for rooms at Trump’s properties ⚡tRUMP has 14 loans on 12 properties. Some are guaranteed by Trump himself, meaning a creditor could come after his personal assets if he defaults.
So Trump is the only president I have seen in history that is openly profiting off the presidency. I'm just surprised more people aren't angry about this... @quid-pro-quojoe_4969 kind of an ass, aren't ya?
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😂🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂This is your factual daily reminder that Donald J. Trump is an unindicted felon, a scammer, and a cheat.
Crimes:
Trump Broke The Law In Freezing Ukraine Funds, Watchdog Report Concludes
https://www.npr.org/2020/01...
The Department of Justice Calls Donald Trump a Felon
https://nymag.com/intellige...
Hundreds of former prosecutors say Trump would've been charged with obstruction if he weren't president
https://thehill.com/policy/...
Federal Prosecutors ‘Concluded that President of the United States Committed a Felony’
https://lawandcrime.com/hig...
Fraud:
Donald J. Trump Pays Court-Ordered $2 Million For Illegally Using Trump Foundation Funds
https://ag.ny.gov/press-rel...
Judge finalizes $25 million settlement for 'victims of Donald Trump's fraudulent university'
https://abcnews.go.com/US/j...
Tax evasion:
Trump didn't pay income tax for 10 of 15 years before 2016 election
https://thehill.com/homenew...
How Russian Money Helped Save Trump’s Business
https://foreignpolicy.com/2...
Donald Trump Used Legally Dubious Method to Avoid Paying Taxes
https://www.nytimes.com/201... Last time I checked, it wasn’t Biden’s campaign manger, assistant
campaign manager, strategist, personal attorney, national security
advisor and foreign policy advisor....that are all convicted felons, all
crimes to protect their boss no less
You may want to remember this little list when you cast your vote, if they let you vote in Moscow.
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