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In his Tuesday hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Attorney General William Barr made plenty of statements that justifiably raised eyebrowsamong them his refusal to acknowledge a direct threat against a federal judge, his lack of concern for Donald Trumps pardoning people directly involved in his campaign, and his smug willingness to overlook any evidence, no matter how obvious, against Trump or anyone close to Trump. Barrs entire appearance was simply dripping with disdain for the entire legal process, Congress, and plain old decency.
So its not surprising that among the statements made by Barr, one threat got little attention. Not only did Barr make it clear that he intends to lob an October surprise into the election works, he added in a signal that hes going full QAnon by adding not-at-all-disguised reference to Pizzagate in the mix. Sometime in the final weeks of the campaign, Barr fully intends to fulfill every Republican fantasy with a report on how Democrats tried to
do something.
From literally the week he arrived back in Washington, D.C., Barr has been following through on Donald Trumps wishes to pursue conspiracy theories related to the Russia investigation. Not only did Barr begin his second session as attorney general (AG) by purposely distorting the results of the Mueller investigation and hiding evidence collected by the Department of Justice, he drafted U.S. Attorney John "Bull" Durham to begin an international quest to find anything that could back up Pizzagate-level claims of persecution.
The Where in the World is Hillarys Missing Server world tour has seen Barr and Durham in Australia, trying to get that government to admit that Australian official Andrew Downer was actually an instrument of U.S. intelligence planting false justification to open an investigation. Theyve visited Rome and London in an attempt to get officials there to agree that Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud was another CIA plant put in place to lure George Papadopoulos into spilling the beans on Trump. And theyve met with an array of Rudy Giuliani approved pro-Russian Ukrainians, looking for that elusive proof that Joe Biden something something Hunter. Also, theyve seriously spent time pursuing a Democratic National Convention (DNC) email server and Ukrainian hackers, neither of which ever existed. The list of actions that Barr has taken to support Trumps ludicrous conspiracy theories is lengthy, and still growing.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/30/1965119/-Barr-makes-it-clear-that-he-intends-to-deliver-an-October-surprise-that-will-surprise-no-one?detail=emaildkre
grumpyduck
(6,294 posts)That will be picked up by the Money Media.
progressive nobody
(816 posts)Charges against Biden. This will be directly out of Putin's playbook.
Nov can't get here soon enough.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Like trump lies. Barr will end up in prison.
Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)We may have 300,000 dead by October. I don't think any cooked up surprise is going to help them.
They are still in denial about the virus which means it is only going to get worse.
OregonBlue
(7,756 posts)to lap it up and run with it. They love a scandal.
Ilsa
(61,720 posts)Oh the humanity!
spanone
(135,950 posts)this shit is just starting