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mitty14u2

(1,015 posts)
Sat Feb 10, 2018, 12:37 AM Feb 2018

Why did Walmart Hire Rachel Brand Now Knowing it could stop Mueller, Trump, Russia Wins?

Rachel Brand, DOJ's No. 3, Leaves for Walmart Top Legal Post



Brand has served as the associate attorney general since May 2017, reporting to the deputy, Rod Rosenstein, and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The New York Times first reported the news of Brand’s departure.

“The men and women of the Department of Justice impress me every day,” Brand said in a statement. “I am proud of what we have been able to accomplish over my time here. I want to thank Attorney General Sessions for his leadership over this Department. I’ve seen firsthand his commitment to the rule of law and to keeping the American people safe.”

Brand would become a top legal officer at Walmart, a move that follows the Jan. 31 retirement of Jeffrey Gearhart. In 2012, Gearhart was promoted to head of global governance. Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, had been searching internally and externally for Gearhart’s successor.

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https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/sites/nationallawjournal/2018/02/09/rachel-brand-dojs-no-3-is-leaving-for-walmarts-top-legal-post/?slreturn=20180109232141

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Why did Walmart Hire Rachel Brand Now Knowing it could stop Mueller, Trump, Russia Wins? (Original Post) mitty14u2 Feb 2018 OP
You answered your own question. RandySF Feb 2018 #1
The Waltons 👿☠️💀😈 doing a payback GWC58 Feb 2018 #2
Plus, Walmart and Trump have a common enemy: Amazon/Washington Post. tableturner Feb 2018 #3
Don't know but Brand's a Republican and Republican Hortensis Feb 2018 #4
Mueller and Rosenstein are both GONE because Brand Quit! mitty14u2 Feb 2018 #5

GWC58

(2,678 posts)
2. The Waltons 👿☠️💀😈 doing a payback
Sat Feb 10, 2018, 01:32 AM
Feb 2018

for their taxes! I really despise those money grubbing, no good pieces of shit. No! Make that steaming piles of DOG SHIT!! I avoid that place like the plague.

tableturner

(1,684 posts)
3. Plus, Walmart and Trump have a common enemy: Amazon/Washington Post.
Sat Feb 10, 2018, 02:34 AM
Feb 2018

I think a joint operation between Trump and Walmat is at least plausible at this point.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. Don't know but Brand's a Republican and Republican
Sat Feb 10, 2018, 05:35 AM
Feb 2018

appointee. I've wondered about that integrity she has such a good reputation for -- which in many can be mixed from situation to situation -- since learning of her association with the slimy, amoral U.S. Chamber of Commerce, "Chief Counsel for Regulatory Litigation" (!) as Wikipedia has it.

This organization, just for instance, headed up an international effort to force nations promoting tobacco cessation to stop by making them pay tobacco companies damages for lost income. Its head even boasted arrogantly that they were succeeding, though they did not. And that's only one example of their venal depravity.

They're also believed to have taken unknown amounts of foreign money from undisclosed sources to invest in the battle for power between Democrats and Republicans. If one was Russia, and who believes one is not likely to be...?

mitty14u2

(1,015 posts)
5. Mueller and Rosenstein are both GONE because Brand Quit!
Sun Feb 11, 2018, 03:35 PM
Feb 2018



President Donald Trump's criticism of Sessions and Rosenstein specifically and the Justice Department the FBI more generally have increased the pressure on senior officials at both places

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/no-3-justice-department-official-leaving-walmart-n846531

I remember that you could register and vote during the Bill Clinton administration at Walmart in Arkansas, this is as Fishy, Brand quitting a high quality job offered by Walmart during a crazed presidency and oh by the way Walmarts owners getting MILLIONS back in taxes from Trumps Tax Law. Mueller if he is not in Trumps pocket needs to open his case against this administration ASAP and file in the blanks later or as he goes along!

Need to read; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Brand
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