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Tuesday, December 8, 2020

BILL BARR, SAYING GOODBYE TO ANOTHER CREATURE OF THE ‘SWAMP???’


Rumor has it that Attorney General William Barr is now considering a departure from the Trump administration before such time as President Trump MAY leave office, that according to a report by…The New York Times.  I would only tell Mr. Barr, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.  Definitely not a ‘Wingman.’  So sadly it seems that I was once again taken in by those who gave Mr. Barr such ringing endorsements at the time of his appointment.  But it didn’t take long to see that he was going to come nowhere near to living up to the many accolades he was given.

According to The New York Times (NYT) three people familiar with the attorney general’s perspective on the matter have said that Barr could be leaving before President Trump, if the Democrats do prove to be successful at their attempted theft of the election, does on January 20.  One of these individuals said Barr could leave before the New Year.  Now whether or not Barr’s consideration of a possible exit is due to President Trump’s rather obvious consternation over the very questionable presidential election results remains unknown, at least according to the Times.

However, one source did say that Barr was considering the move even before President Trump and Barr’s schisms on whether or not voter fraud majorly impacted the election.  And it was just last week that Barr had stated that the Department of Justice had not uncovered widespread voter fraud, much less fraud that could sway the election in the president’s favor.  And it has been since then that President Trump has refused to say whether he has confidence in his attorney general.  And why should he, as voter fraud has been as widespread as it’s been obvious and blatant.

If Barr does decide to leave the Trump administration, also according to the Times, his decision will be colored by his disagreements with the president regardless of when he started considering leaving.  By leaving early, Barr could avoid further confrontations with the president over the election when Congress goes to certify the Electoral College results in early January.  President Trump is not the only one who has criticized Barr’s second tenure as attorney general. Some of the president’s most ardent defenders have called for Barr’s resignation or for the president to fire him.

And it’s from those on the left that we hear how Barr has politicized the Department of Justice through his handling of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russian collusion investigation, impeachment, and Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation.  But it’s these very same individuals making such claims who seem to, very conveniently, forget how it was that during the ‘BO’ administration when we had an attorney general by the name of Eric Holder who very overtly politicized the Department of Justice and yet no one now complaining about Barr had any problem with that.   

If Barr does leave, it will Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen who would be the one to take the reins until presidential-wannabe ‘Creepy Joe’ Biden is, God forbid, sworn in on January 20, 2021.  And it was also according to sources close to the attorney general that Barr has not yet made a final decision and could actually stay through what could be, at least theoretically, the end of President Trump’s term, to finish what was described as ‘critical’ work.  As far as I’m concerned there would be very little reason to keep Barr around, he has shown his true colors and needs to go.

Barr came out of retirement to be Attorney General to investigate an attempted coup d’état.  Mueller came of retirement to be Special Counsel to justify an attempted coup d’état.  They really came out of retirement to advance an attempted coup d’état.  They have succeeded.  Barr might as well resign. He already sank his knife into President Trump’s back, and no longer has any influence with conservatives.  And to say that I have been disappointed in his rather lackluster performance would be quite the understatement.  I had expected so very much more from him.  Sad!

He has probably concluded the tipping point has passed and there’s little use putting any effort in trying to get our corrupt government back under control. The Justice Department was nuked under Holder and ‘BO’ and there’s no hope of putting it back together.  He might as well go.  All he did was talk, talk, talk.  It was all smoke and mirrors. No surprise, since he came from the Bush era. President Trump, and the nation, will be much better off without him.  Is there no one in Washington today who cares about this country as much as our president does?  I really don’t think so.

Barr came into his current position and was immediately confronted with what was a considerable corruption in both the DOJ and FBI against President Trump and was apparently unable to find the evidence necessary to indict people he knew. That these two government agencies continue to exist without the necessary respect for them to function effectively can be said to be Barr’s fault.  He was supposed to be the guy who could get things done, the one guy we could all count on to get to the bottom of things, and yet he proved himself to be nothing of the sort. 

And when his opportunity came to be an honest U.S. Attorney General and to finally stand up for clean government what did Mr. Barr do?  He simply declined.  A year’s worth of delay over the Durham ‘investigation’ and report: first it was going to be March, then it was “before summer,” then “late summer,” then “September,” then “before the election,” then, he finally admitted it was going to be “never.”  Of course, all the DOJ ‘investigators’ were handsomely paid for two years and producing nothing.  Pretty much playing Lucy holding the football to Charley Brown’s kicking.

Barr could have made history as the brave and honorable leader who rooted out the attempted coup of a duly elected U.S. president and saved our country from what’s going to happen next.  Instead, he is another con man.  We expected a ‘Deep State’ cleanup crew but that’s not what we got as the country sank even further into corruption, destroying justice for the common man.  He could have been a great man. Leave now. Leave in shame. We needed justice and you had no intention of providing it. You cruelly provided hope of justice without any intention of providing it.

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