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  1. Neo’s “Bill Barr” tag has 5 or so entries, the first of which is from April 10, 2019 and entitled “Investigating the Investigators”. So yeah, we’ve seen this Democrat panic coming from way off. They’ll flail but it won’t end well for ’em.

  2. We briefly turned the TV on this afternoon and caught some of Trump’s pressor with the Finnish President (or PM?). Then Shep the Dem Smith came on and completely lied about what Trump said in the phone call. I tuned out but he may have said something about Barr. So it is not just the MSM but FOX too.

  3. LYNN HARGROVE:

    Smith is always like that, the complete MSM line. That’s not new or different for him.

  4. Fred Fleitz, twitter thread:
    https://mobile.twitter.com/FredFleitz/status/1179497518075383808

    “1/ The NYT confirmed what I said last week: Schiff knew about the CIA whistleblower in advance — way in advance. Before he even filed his complaint. This is a much bigger scandal that people realize. At a minimum, Schiff should recuse himself from this impeachment inquiry.”

    “5/ Schiff talked about the Ukraine issue throughout the month of August. The contents of the complaint leaked before it was presented to Congress. There is zero chance in mind mine that Schiff’s HPSCI lawyers were not working hand and glove with the WB and his lawyers.”

    “6/ And here’s the kicker (@Susan_Hennessey & @MiekeEoyang pay attention): under @HouseIntelComm rules, any classified info brought to the committee from outside sources MUST BE SHARED WITH BOTH SIDES. Schiff broke committee rules by not telling committee GOP members about this.”

    “7/ This is a very serious violation of
    @HouseIntelComm rules. Why did Schiff do this, especially when he was using this information to score political points throughout the month of August? The reason is clear: it was part of the latest Dem ploy to take down @realDonaldTrump”

  5. The lies of Dems, and the Deep State. It’s terrible.
    And scary, that so many folk believe so many lies.

    Barr really needs to be getting indictments out there, and noting the crimes.

    I was hoping Trump would get McCarthy as a Special Prosecutor against the FBI.

  6. Sean Davis, twitter thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1179493367836807169

    The federal intelligence community whistleblower law explicitly states intelligence community whistleblowers must formally go through the ICIG *before* contacting Congress. In fact, those very procedures are cited in the document you screenshat. [Screenshots, see link: sdferr]

    In fact, while the URL at the bottom of the document screenshat by
    @BradMossEsq has apparently been defunct since 2017, here’s what it used to say. It quoted the statute saying IC whistleblowers had to go through the ICIG before going to Congress. [Screenshot, see link]

    This process is specific to the intelligence community, as the other congressional oversight committees crafted their laws to allow whistleblowers to go directly to Congress, rather than be filtered through or obstructed by the agency they’re blowing the whistle on.

  7. “He should immediately step down as chair.”

    Chance of that happening? About as likely, I’d say, as his Republican committee colleagues taking him into the streets of D.C. and summarily gutting him like a fish. Or, 0 percent chance.

  8. They skipped over FOUR HUNDRED PLUS words of the phone call transcript so as to get the meaning they wanted. Isn’t there some rule to cover that total falsehood? The television media are using PUBLIC airwaves to spew this BS. Surely, there is some penalty for this.

  9. Schiff’s ‘parody’ lies were meant to be told in the absence of the call manuscript, which Trump promptly made public. Schiff didn’t call an audible and rolled with his nonsense anyway.

  10. The left lies, bends reality to their sacred truths, relies on an asleep at the wheel public, and seeks the one ring to rule as the master. But they don’t stop there. They want you, all of your children, and grandchildern enslaved and/dead.

    They will have a Main Street war on their hands in red states and riots and looting in blue metro areas, the military will not come to the rescue (some idiot’s desire to nuke gun owners not withstanding), and they will lose.

    Orange man bad has made the left reveal their agenda. Thanks to Trump for unmasking their hatred.

  11. “Do Republicans see the strategy to discredit the Barr investigation?”
    .
    Don’t know about ‘Republicans’,
    but I can pretty much guarantee the Trumpster sees it.

  12. I have one brother who is essentially a sociopath. What I learned while growing up around him is that normal people need to stop worrying what the sociopath thinks or feels about something.

    If you know what’s right then do it, no matter how much the other person screams. Because none of their tantrums are authentic anyway.

  13. Matt_SE is correct. However, it is still true that most people are inclined to be generous and considerate of others’ feelings (which is good), and I think most people don’t deal with enough sociopaths to recognize them (which is good), so we don’t realize thatwe can dismiss the sociopaths instead of worrying about their feelings (and that is bad).

  14. Look, the Barr investigation is about whether or not the investigation into Trump in 2016 was influenced by politics. If Barr were to find that Obama’s personal attorney and campaign surrogate was intimately involved in the 2016 investigation, particularly in a quasi-governmental role, then it would be game-over. Barr would do a victory dance.

    So that’s why the Biden investigation, if there even is one, is over. It’s been hopelessly compromised, even if Biden & Son committed the underlying offense.

    But what about the Barr investigation itself? If McCarthy is right, and Trump is indeed referring to this in his fist ask, then it looks like its over too…though the evidence here doesn’t come from that phone call.

    From today’s Press Conference:

    And just so you know, we’ve been investigating, on a personal basis — through Rudy and others, lawyers — corruption in the 2016 election. We’ve been investigating corruption, because I probably will — I was going to definitely — but I probably will be bringing a lot of litigation against a lot of people having to do with the corrupt investigation, having to do with the 2016 election.

    If Andy is right, the Barr investigation is all but over.

  15. “…whether or not the investigation into Trump in 2016 was influenced by politics.”

    That is so absurd! I mean, there really are no words!!

    Everyone knows that the investigation into Trump was influenced by the desire to improve the lives of all of America’s citizens, uphold the Constitution and make the world a better place.

    (Just like—coincidently!—the ACA, the JCPOA, “Fast and Furious”, the very special treatment provided to Sharyl Attkisson and James Risen, and the IRS ensuring that the “right people” get “extra special attention”—i.e., for the good of the country…which is something that Trump and his supporters, for some oddly PERVERSE and inexplicable reason, don’t seem to be able to comprehend….)

  16. The GOP has smartened up considerably since the Tea Party rebellion and subsequent developments which pressures RINOs and other affiliated swamp creatures to act on their words instead of constantly defaulting to prevent defense and still ending up Charlie Browning to Lucy Leftie.

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