I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!
A.G. Barr is as corrupt as his boss.
Even President Trump has said his former national security adviser lied to the F.B.I.
"Mr. Barr is now saying he cannot prove charges to which Mr. Flynn has twice pleaded guilty in court — and for which there is ample evidence. As for legitimacy and materiality, the F.B.I. was in the middle of a monthslong counterintelligence investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
Mr. Flynn was a top aide to that campaign, and he lied about speaking with the Russian ambassador in a way that undermined the Obama administration, which was still in charge at the time."
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"Michael Bromwich, a former Justice Department inspector general, called Thursday “A black day in D.O.J. history.” He’s right. Our institutions have withstood corruption and malfeasance at the highest level, until now. With William Barr at the right hand of Donald Trump, that is no longer assured."
Michael Flynn admitted he lied TWICE! If he were innocent, he wouldn't have admitted to lying to the FBI. Even Trump told the American people he had to let Flynn go BECAUSE HE LIED!
If your blood isn’t boiling, it should be. The rule of law is what keeps democratic societies together. The last four years have proved that in democracies, we are completely reliant on men and women of honor and integrity to hold the system together.
One man alone, even a president, can’t subjugate the system. He needs other compromised men and women too. He needs them to throw their own ethics and integrity out the window, if they had any. He needs pessimists with a nihilistic view of our culture and humanity. He needs McConnell and Barr.
What’s to be done? Hope for the best — and vote — in the short term (voting for individuals with a strong sense of empathy is a good rule of thumb), and teach your family, your kids, and the kids of others about honor and integrity in the long term.
The guilty plea was a plea deal--the least of the charges against him. The other charges can be brought forward by DOJ once the American citizens clean out the pigsty that Barr has made of the DOJ.
Vote the criminals out in November!
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Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his illicit Russian contacts.
His lies do not now become truths.
This dismissal does not exonerate him.
But it does incriminate Bill Barr.
In the worst politicization of the Justice Department in its history.
His lies do not now become truths.
This dismissal does not exonerate him.
But it does incriminate Bill Barr.
In the worst politicization of the Justice Department in its history.
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If Flynn was doing nothing wrong, why the decision to lie in the first place? A lie he admitted to. A lie to the VP that caused him to be fired. It fits perfectly... A president who repeatedly lies, hires a Nat Sec Advisor for lying, yet gets his lying AG to say it doesn't matter if the guy lied because you had no right to ask him such a question.
And the party that just a few years ago said HRC was unqualified to be president because she lied, that her husband should be removed from office for lack of character, that said a person of low moral character could not lead this country, that party and their supporters, remain silent.
Today's GOP.
I think I can speak for those in my town who were once proud sane Texas Republicans, we want the lying orange fat man baby out of the White House and we will step up to make sure he is voted out in November and along with his family and cronies stands trial for what they have done to the United States of America.
Yes we do. Dotard has made good on his threat to level the playkng field. By bringing the USA down to the level OF THE OTHER CORRUPT UNETHICAL BANANA REPUBLICS. He had drained the swsmp by creating a CESSPOOL.
I ANXIOUSLY AWAIT BEING CONTACTED SOON BY A RECRUITER FOR YHE ARMED RESISTANCE
Dave, It isn't over yet. Judge Sullivan is still the judge on the case and has some say before this is final:
"In 2017, when he plead guilty, Mr. Flynn apologized to the judge for lying to investigators, saying, “I recognize that the actions I acknowledged in court today were wrong, and through my faith in God, I am working to set things right."
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"Here’s the tell. The Justice Department’s new position isn’t that Mr. Flynn didn’t lie — that couldn’t be its position, because he did lie, and he admitted in federal court that he lied. Instead, the new filing argues that it was wrong for the F.B.I. to interview him in the first place. Look carefully at who the villain becomes in that narrative: not Mr. Flynn for lying, but the F.B.I. for asking the questions to which he lied in response.
And there’s a second tell. If the goal was just to shield Mr. Flynn, Mr. Trump could simply have pardoned him. That would have been a regrettable abuse of the pardon power — but at least it would have left Mr. Trump owning the decision and would have spared the Justice Department of the patent, destructive corruption that its new filing represents. But that didn’t happen — because institutional destruction isn’t collateral damage for Mr. Trump. It’s the very goal.
Fortunately, in our system, a prosecutor’s say-so is not enough to drop a prosecution; it requires the approval of the court. And while judges rarely interfere with such decisions, this is that rare case. Judge Sullivan, who still presides over Mr. Flynn’s case, has three important lines of inquiry available to him. First, he can examine why the highly regarded former prosecutor of Mr. Flynn withdrew from the case moments before the Justice Department’s astonishing filing. Last year, after the Supreme Court essentially held that the Trump administration had lied about the census and several Justice Department attorneys attempted to withdraw from the case, the presiding federal judge refused and began an inquiry into the attorneys’ withdrawal. A similar inquiry is appropriate here."
Leanna, Trump is doing poorly in the states he needs to win electorally. Very poorly.
If he keeps up his usual blatant lying and corruption, the American people WILL throw him out in November. We're all working very hard toward that goal.
RN, If you thought Trump was corrupt, Barr makes him look like a two-bit criminal. Barr has disgraced himself and is not worthy to be the A.G.
A majority of the American people want both Trump and Barr OUT.
The corruption is so brazen and staggering that we grow numb to it.
Just remember one thing: there are no “good” Republican politicians, and they won’t step up to save us from their guy.
Yes, Shaw. November is coming. January is coming. A law-abiding President is coming. A law-enforcing Attorney General is coming. And, though it’s hard to see though the dark cloud of corruption that is Bill Bar
77,663 Americans are dead. Trump is the biggest failure ever.
President Trump’s legacy is already cemented, however Bill Barr will go down as the worst Attorney General in History, which is quite a high bar. Sure we’ve had towering incompetents such as Alberto Gonzalez, and criminals such as John Mitchell, But none that I can recall that were interested in going full Banana Republic and blowing up our democracy.
Jennifer Rubin, a Conservative columnist:
“What Barr has done on Trump’s behalf with respect to Flynn, who entered a fully justified guilty plea that the district court duly approved, is blatantly and purely partisan,” constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe tells me. “I know of no similarly corrupt action in the Justice Department’s entire history. This latest outrage, which closes the circle that began with Trump’s attempt to get [then-FBI Director] James Comey to go easy on Flynn and with Trump’s firing of Comey for his failure to do so, just goes to show that a president with a sufficiently unprincipled and compliant Attorney General needn’t even bother to abuse his pardon power to bail out his loyal henchmen.” Tribe further observes, “By sparing Trump the need to invoke his pardon power and at least having to be held politically accountable, Barr gave the president cover. Hopefully the voters will see through the ruse come November.”
Trump wants the people on Main Street to die for the people on Wall Street.
It is exactly what you would expect of a malignant narsassicst.
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