John Flannery : 'Barr and tRump are running a crime syndicate out of the West Wing.'

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Former federal prosecutor John Flannery is one of the over 1,100 former Justice Department lawyers and prosecutors who signed a letter demanding Attorney General Bill Barr resign...
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“What they’re doing is trying to erase the parallel case that was just the subject of the impeachment, because what [Roger] Stone is charged with was interfering in our election in 2016,” explained Flannery.
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“It seems to me,” Flannery continued, “they’ll go to any political lengths to suppress that. But what I think the letter does — it does two things: it says this is an attorney general who has no business in that job. No. 2, it says that we have to encourage every person who is in the department to believe that they should stand by what they believe their oath of office is and to do the job right because there’s nobody that we can appeal to until we get rid of Barr as the attorney general and our chief executive, who is our chief criminal, who’s running a crime syndicate out of the West Wing.”
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“You can’t win the arguments you don’t make,” he said about those who dig in on their opinions. “When an administration obstructs justice, threatens people, violates a variety of laws including bribery and so forth, even though the senators don’t have the spine to do what they should have done because they’re afraid of the chief executive compromising their position in office, don’t lose your phony-bologna job, and they would rather get what they can despite the character flaws and worse of the chief executive that they have and support.”

He cited a friend of his who has been a lifelong Republican who said he would never vote for another Republican again as long as it’s the Trump party.

“It’s a lawless party run but a lawless leader should not be running this government,” he closed. - New Civil Rights Movement

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[dem4decades]

1. I really like seeing John on Ari's show. He's great and pulls no punches, obviously.

[UTUSN]

2. K&R

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3. Those of us

with critical thinking skills and a brain are already wise to that fact.

[EndlessWire]

4. Getting closer

Getting closer to hearing someone in government--even if "former"--just flat out telling We The People that we now have a dictator. The words were edgy--if you say that someone is operating above the law, what does that make him?

I especially like the part where he calls the GOP "spineless." We've been screaming that for a long time. It's nice to see someone who has some sway also confirm all of what we know. They threw their honor, heart and soul away to keep a criminal in office.

This is some of the teaching that needs to be done. What Trump and Barr are doing is crazy, and not okay.