William Barr resigns
Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr at the White House. Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job! As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family...
Gee I hate being right all the time. I knew Barr wasn't going to try and do the job of AG with all the criticism.
History will record that he served honorably.
"President Trump announced Barr's decision on Twitter, saying that the two had a "very good" relationship and praising Barr for doing an "outstanding job." Trump had sharply criticized Barr in recent days.
Barr plans to leave the Justice Department on Dec. 23, according to his resignation letter."
thehill.com/homenews/administration/530179-barr-to-step-down-as-attorney-general
Deputy AG Jeff Rosen to be acting AG. Huge shoes to fill.
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Bill Barr will be home for Christmas.
Probably the best scenario for Barr. Being fired by Trump —especially while Trump is engaging in his petulant lunatic rampage— helps put Barr among better company than those who stuck it out with the madman.
He wasn't fired! He resigned!
I do not hold you to be that naïve Vic.
Oh, but you taught me the importance of holding onto words!
I don't yet have it all up there but the rest of Barr's letter contains this:
Barr went on to tout Trump’s record, calling it “all the more historic because you accomplished it in the face of relentless, implacable resistance.”
“Your 2016 victory speech in which you reached out to your opponents and called fro working together for the benefit of the American people was immediately met by a partisan onslaught against you in which no tactic, no matter how abusive and deceitful, was out of bounds,” Barr wrote.
One wonders who wrote the resignation letter ahead of time, Barr or Trump.
All of the flowery praise in the second and third paragraphs are over the top making it possible the the WH wrote the letter well before the meeting.
Are you trying to say that accurately reading the semantics expressed by words means that you must then believe whatever the words connote??
That's always been your argument.
What I'm saying is just what I said here:
Post 1.3
Then clearly you have failed to understand my point.
Yes, Vic, I do know that you have claimed that Barr has resigned. I have never suggested you have not expressed that thought. No need to argue a point that was never made.
Nope, I claimed that he would resign if the President began showing a loss of faith in him.
No need to argue a point that was never made.
I'm not. I'm demonstrating my conviction that a resignation would be genuine and imminent if the President criticized him.
You are claiming what? Be specific.
Okay, you claimed that he would resign and that he has resigned. Is there a point you are trying to make? Your opinion is noted.
Your point is noted.
What is with this pointless obnoxious nit-picking? Here is my opening comment. Is this not clear enough to understand?:
This tells you that I view this 'resignation' as Barr being fired by an irrational Trump. You disagree. That is fine, Vic, your disagreement is noted. I think that is naïve, but if you wish to hold this view it really does not bother me and I see no reason to argue about.
Anything else?
No. It shouldn't have taken all of that for you to say what you declared in 2.1.1 - that Barr was in effect fired. Instead of using the tactics of asking for evidence, I'll simply let it go.
Don't try to blame me for you making a mountain out of a molehill. Believe whatever you wish, Vic, it does not matter; certainly not to me.
Hahaha
Sure, sure. Yep donald attacking people in congress and anyone that dared go against him is reaching across the isle...
The delusion in some...
I believe he was probably given a choice. Leave or be fired.
Those are usually the options. But if a disagreement like that occurs, it is essentially a dismissal.
It could also be: 'be loyal to my final plans' or 'you are fired'.
my first thought. barr negotiated a save face clause in the blind loyalty agreement.
Signed on the grassy knoll!
If all Barr did was misrepresent the Mueller report (which he did) he would go down as the worst attorney general of all time. He did so much more though.
You are free to have an opinion. I strongly disagree with every bit of it.
Just like the agents who wrongly pursued that farce, they all believed Trump must have done something!
Why bother with this? He's got what? 5? 6 weeks left in his current assignment? Why not just finish it out?
One can't operate as AG with the President criticizing him for not finding what doesn't/no longer exists. Barr leaves the office with his head held high and two investigations reasonably safe from a possible partisan successor - the Durham Investigation (now enlisting more prosecutors) and the tax evasion/money laundering case against Hunter Biden.
He was a class act.
He is an ass that thinks a president is above the law. He was instrumental in getting most of the people that were being investigated in the Iran-Contra affairs pardoned and investigations stopped, just to protect those at the top.
He was the same this time around, protecting who/what he needed to protect.
good riddance.
I think he has been a decent AG. It just seems more disruptive to leave than to stay. But whatever he needs to do, I guess.
And you seem to think the President is under the law.
He was instrumental in getting most of the people that were being investigated in the Iran-Contra affairs pardoned and investigations stopped, just to protect those at the top.
The people at the top? Admiral Poindexter?
He was the same this time around, protecting who/what he needed to protect.
Um-hum...
I would say he let the Department in excellent shape. Two investigations safely on track. It will be hard to scuttle them.
Under the law? Like people that have lived through police brutality?
Poor donald, had it so bad....
I'd only hope that Hunter Biden could be treated as badly. However, I have another one of those gut feelings. I sense a plea deal in Hunter's future.
Treated so bad...even though he constantly attacked people, constantly put people down, constantly got rid of people that were not loyal, constantly attacked people in his own party that dared go against him.
Somehow nothing is ever his fault is it...
It is always, ALWAYS, someone else.
A plea deal for taxes? He either pays what owed or faces the consequences.
Not that hard of a choice.
From day 1 he face resistance and fraudulent investigations from the ruling elite.
We really need not debate our feelings on Trump again.
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Good night!
Well I guess he will not be instrumental in pardons this time around.
I would not be surprised if Trump fired Barr after Barr, when asked, refused to execute on whatever Trump wanted him to do.
I believe it. If donald thought promoting Hunter Biden being investigated would have given him an edge. That and a few other things.
Eventually Joe Biden will have to nominate an AG. I assume Senate Republicans will be most concerned about how that nominee will handle the Hunter Biden case and the Durham Investigation. It will be very difficult to convince the Senate or the American people that a Biden AG will handle a Hunter Biden investigation fairly. It may be best to leave the acting AG in place for as long as possible.