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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat the actual fu...? Barr is unbelievable.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein: The Mueller Report says that Trump told the White House counsel to lie to cover up for him.
Bill Barr: Well, thats not a crime.
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What the actual fu...? Barr is unbelievable. (Original Post)
catbyte
May 2019
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AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)1. Looks like AG decides what crime and what not unless challenged by SC?
is that how it works
Ohiogal
(32,104 posts)2. What the ever lovin'
FUCK!!!
What kind of law school did you graduate from Barr?!?! Trump U.??
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,647 posts)3. Popehat, regarding Jacob Wohl:
And because people keep asking: no, recruiting people to lie about public figures is not a federal crime until you start lying to the federal government or using the lies to swindle people out of money (or possibly do it to attack a witness in a proceeding)
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So, if I have this right, asking someone to lie to a gummint official is not a crime. Lying to a gummint official is a crime.
csziggy
(34,138 posts)4. Barr, like Roger Stone, is a Nixon adherent
And believe in what Nixon told David Frost:
The_Counsel
(1,660 posts)5. Bill Should Be Dis-BARR-ed. I-Fuckin'-Mediately.
Hey, Barr...? Coercion IS a crime, ya dummy!
It may be harder than Chinese arithmetic to prove, but it is a crime.
So is "contempt of Congress," by the way...