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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,212 posts)
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 03:32 PM Jul 2020

Barr makes it clear that he intends to deliver an October surprise ... that will surprise no one

In his Tuesday hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Attorney General William Barr made plenty of statements that justifiably raised eyebrows—among them his refusal to acknowledge a direct threat against a federal judge, his lack of concern for Donald Trump’s pardoning people directly involved in his campaign, and his smug willingness to overlook any evidence, no matter how obvious, against Trump or anyone close to Trump. Barr’s entire appearance was simply dripping with disdain for the entire legal process, Congress, and plain old decency.

So it’s not surprising that among the statements made by Barr, one threat got little attention. Not only did Barr make it clear that he intends to lob an “October surprise” into the election works, he added in a signal that he’s going full QAnon by adding not-at-all-disguised reference to Pizzagate in the mix. Sometime in the final weeks of the campaign, Barr fully intends to fulfill every Republican fantasy with a “report” on how Democrats tried to … do something.

From literally the week he arrived back in Washington, D.C., Barr has been following through on Donald Trump’s wishes to pursue conspiracy theories related to the Russia investigation. Not only did Barr begin his second session as attorney general (AG) by purposely distorting the results of the Mueller investigation and hiding evidence collected by the Department of Justice, he drafted U.S. Attorney John "Bull" Durham to begin an international quest to find anything that could back up Pizzagate-level claims of persecution.

The Where in the World is Hillary’s “Missing Server” world tour has seen Barr and Durham in Australia, trying to get that government to admit that Australian official Andrew Downer was actually an instrument of U.S. intelligence planting false justification to open an investigation. They’ve visited Rome and London in an attempt to get officials there to agree that Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud was another CIA plant put in place to lure George Papadopoulos into spilling the beans on Trump. And they’ve met with an array of Rudy Giuliani approved pro-Russian Ukrainians, looking for that elusive proof that Joe Biden something something Hunter. Also, they’ve seriously spent time pursuing a Democratic National Convention (DNC) email server and Ukrainian hackers, neither of which ever existed. The list of actions that Barr has taken to support Trump’s ludicrous conspiracy theories is lengthy, and still growing.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/30/1965119/-Barr-makes-it-clear-that-he-intends-to-deliver-an-October-surprise-that-will-surprise-no-one?detail=emaildkre

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Barr makes it clear that he intends to deliver an October surprise ... that will surprise no one (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP
And I suspect it'll be just another distraction grumpyduck Jul 2020 #1
Yeeeaaahhh, Something tells me Barr is going to suddenly bring progressive nobody Jul 2020 #2
Barr falsely manufactures stuff duforsure Jul 2020 #3
Unfortunately Trenzalore Jul 2020 #4
I disagree. I think it's going to be big and backed by lots of "evidence" and the press is going OregonBlue Jul 2020 #5
Biden jaywalked back in 1988. Ilsa Jul 2020 #6
trump's had three and a half years to pay off people to lie about joe biden al zelensky spanone Jul 2020 #7
 

progressive nobody

(816 posts)
2. Yeeeaaahhh, Something tells me Barr is going to suddenly bring
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 03:52 PM
Jul 2020

Charges against Biden. This will be directly out of Putin's playbook.

Nov can't get here soon enough.

Trenzalore

(2,331 posts)
4. Unfortunately
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 04:22 PM
Jul 2020

We may have 300,000 dead by October. I don't think any cooked up surprise is going to help them.

They are still in denial about the virus which means it is only going to get worse.

OregonBlue

(7,754 posts)
5. I disagree. I think it's going to be big and backed by lots of "evidence" and the press is going
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 05:00 PM
Jul 2020

to lap it up and run with it. They love a scandal.

spanone

(135,880 posts)
7. trump's had three and a half years to pay off people to lie about joe biden al zelensky
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 07:48 PM
Jul 2020

this shit is just starting

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