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You saw the pictures! The walls are finally closing in; or maybe it’s the floor that’ll finally move in on Trump! Or maybe everyone should cool their jets, as our guest Bill Barr might recommend. The former Attorney General joins us again to discuss what we know (and don’t know) about the latest legal troubles for the former president. Without getting ahead of the facts, Barr thinks through the search itself; partisanship in the Justice Department; and the kind of fighters the Republican Party needs.
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That guy was wonderful
I never post anything political to my Facebook feed because I try to keep the peace and I wish other “friends” wouldn’t bludgeon me with their political views. But . . . I posted that short Tiktok because I thought it was wonderful and eloquent and perfectly summed up my emotions. (Except maybe he was too nice to Biden.)
So far I’ve gotten very little reaction.
Sometimes the truth smacks people in the face so hard they don’t know how to respond.
William Barr: Whose Side Are You On?
you mean someone like Jonah Goldberg? He’d make that claim. Snarkly pointing out that these are 40 ft freightliner trailers Taras, you dumb rube! The Nazis obviously used railcars. And the gas today? totally different than that 1940s colored gas.
Am I alone in bemoaning the fact that former AG Barr (whom I normally like) failed to mention ‘mens rea’ in discussing the actions of his former, admittedly not very loyal, boss?
And if they won’t have him on, that proves they’re racist.
Really great job holding Barr accountable for becoming a stalwart defender of the self-evidently corrupt DOJ/FBI. “They we’re just following orders!” Well done. Seriously. So glad you didn’t lob him softballs like “how can Republicans get past Trump?” /s
Look, I get it now: you guys are Peacetime Conservatives. You’re sheep in sheep’s clothing. You like to rub shoulders and chortle with the Republican and Conservative Establishment, maybe hem and haw a bit about unfair treatment of conservatives (but definitely not including any of the non-violent January 6 political prisoners), and ignore the fact that the DOJ/FBI and interagency have become the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party. Now I know who you are and how inadequate you are for the times we live in. Oh, and a special master was just appointed for the MaL raid, so looks like Barr was talking out his a$$. Shocking.
Fair winds and following seas, gentlemen.
What a fabulous episode!
I’m sure you could have knocked Peter Robinson over with a feather.
Timely:
Barr legitimately headed off a coup during the BLM riots in May of 2020. He also squelched most of the DOJs anti-Trump efforts while he was Attorney General. I’m a bit unsure what to make of Barr’s current soft ant-Trump tour. Barr clearly knows what’s going on beneath the narrative. He’s the consummate insider by his pedigree and is clearly not ideologically aligned with populist conservatism. I think he is trying to protect the system from itself. He’s not a nefarious actor, but he’s in the way, now.
I think he’s been a nefarious actor for quite some time.
Link for more info?
If he’s maneuvering about as a consummate insider trying to “protect the system from itself,” then he’s really protecting it from accountability. He’s protecting it from us.
To answer @roblong‘s uncertainty about the New Orleans Ricochet Meetup, it’s not just kind of set. It’s happening, baby! Four other Ricochet members and I have already booked a vacation home we are sharing for this meetup. April 13-16, 2023.
Well, he did ensure Lon Horiuchi was prosecuted for the murder of Vicky Weaver, shot by the FBI sniper as she held her baby in her arms.
Oh, wait, he was a key part of the official cover-up, ensuring government agents could continue suppressing conservative dissent with extreme prejudice.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-15-mn-41294-story.html
https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/31/barr-a-lago/
I too was a Never Trumper in 2016. I listened to the likes of David French, Mona Charen and Jay Nordlinger in forming that opinion. Right after the election I was shocked by the idea of Russian Collusion. It didn’t take long, however, to see the Russian Collusion narrative as the hoax it was. It didn’t take a lot of work to see the deep state – the FBI in particular – as a tool for the Democrat party. The one thing about Trump is he exposed a lot of rot. Thinkers I respected like French, Charen, Nordlinger I now realize can’t see reality from their bubbles. I changed my mind about Trump early in his presidency they couldn’t even though the facts demanded a second look. By 2020 I told friends I would crawl over broken glass to vote to re-elect Trump. Now that he’s out of power, I’m certainly wanting someone with the strengths of Trump (he’s a fighter), but with more discipline and more savvy regarding getting things done in Washington. As a MAGA and TEA partier, I know we have a daunting task ahead of us. After all, we have Big Tech, MSM, Education Establishments, Public Employee Unions and more all working for the Democrats and against us. Nevertheless, we have no choice but to win.
I can’t understand why anybody lasted more than 60 days.
He has the IRS giving him a continual colonoscopy ever since he took that $1 billion tax deduction.
He’s an international criminal and he’s going to run for POTUS.
Sure. This makes perfect sense.
This is all about deep state jobs, money, and influence.
He sure did.
It’s about lifestyle, money in some cases, and an unwillingness to look at the way things actually are today.
The tax thing always made me laugh (“oooohhh, the New York DA is going to get him on tax charges any day now”).
You know who’s had complete copies of every one of his tax returns, and never charged him with anything? The IRS.
And people act like it’s perfectly normal that he’s getting harassed by the government like that.
That’s because it’s Trump, and there is nobody else in the entire country who has been so demonized — by our own government.
I mean, think about that. A former President, rightfully elected who got a historic number of votes in 2020 (and probably won) is treated — by the incoming regime — as the equivalent of Satan himself. They have whipped up so much hatred against him. And again, it’s our own government doing it.
That is astounding.
And it’s also destructive to the continuance of the nation.
You don’t believe that a party that got 69 million votes in 2016 with the potential historic first of a woman president completely bypassed the 70s and went straight to 81 million in only four years with a basement dwelling pedophile?
I think Hillary was found to be very dislikable — even hate-worthy — by millions of people who figured Joe Biden is not great, but acceptable. And very few people who are not Republicans believe Joe Biden is a pedophile.
America is a Republican country with Democratic media. When the media think the Dems already have it won, as in 1988 and 2016, they don’t put out a maximum effort for them, and the Republicans can win.
In the next elections — 1992 and 2020 — the media buckled down and made sure the Democrats won.
Remember, when you talk about Biden being more “likable” than Hillary, you mean how they are portrayed in the media.
They should have seen the sniffing clips from the various events while he was Vice President, but I doubt the press highlighted any of them. I’m sure none of them know about Ashley’s diary.
Trump has to be the greatest politician in US history. He increased his vote total by 13 million from 2016 and increased the Democrat turnout by 12 million. No wonder he is feared and has to have the full weight of the government thrown against him. A lot of rice bowls are threatened.
I vaguely recall reading about a study some group did 20 or so years ago where they attempted to adjust public opinion for the effects of media bias, and found that in the absence of said media bias, the country on average would vote about like the state of Utah does.
I have absolutely no memory of what their methodology was, or how they came to that conclusion, or if it had any credibility at all.
Prof. Tim Groseclose in Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind (2012). Independent scholars accepted the (obvious) results of his computations, but the media, of course, swept it under the rug.
I’m reminded of an old Bertrand Russell quote.
Which Democrat campaign consultant said that the media arm of the DNC gave them a five point advantage?
Larry Elder had a guest on that did that study, multiple times.