Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

i read the words "Trump's cum stains" earlier and it completely ruined my day

Sorry, on what grounds are they going to dismiss this case?

Not a dismissal, she is apparently considering granting Trump's motion for a special master (and thereby halting DOJ's review of the documents pending the special master's review). It's a grotesquerie.

How the fuck is a Trump appointed judge allowed to have anything to do with this case

ginni thomas said it would be fine

Reminder

Leaving aside how far Judge Cannon is going to accommodate Trump, it’s not like appointing a special master changes anything about Trump’s potential liability or the legitimacy of DOJ’s search. It’s about the possible return of *some* of the seized materials — and nothing more. https://t.co/MrWQdacvfi

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) August 27, 2022

It will slow things down, not stop them, and I am betting an appeal gets any ruling of hers tossed for lack of jurisdiction

Another of the “frequent” guests to the room where the FBI found highly classified materials? pic.twitter.com/zZK64EOliA

— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) September 1, 2022

Big 'Cocaine Grandparents' Energy

what is that painting with the american-flagged face to their left?

Looks like a grinning skull.

Lots of grinning skulls up in there

This is fun:

Bill Barr said he did not believe Trump's claim that he had declassified everything before it was taken to his Florida resort, and he hit back at critics of the FBI search saying it was 'unprecedented' for such sensitive materials to be taken to a 'country club.'

Barr made his comments as Trump supporters continue to accuse the FBI and Department of Justice of conducted a witch hunt...

witch hunt is so season 2 of this show

xpost The actual clip is kind of fun, because he goes out of his way to give that quote:

Bill Barr: "I think the driver on this from the beginning was loads of classified information sitting in Mar-a-Lago. People say this was unprecedented, well it’s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, ok!" pic.twitter.com/A7fT59aKpD

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) September 2, 2022

it would hit so much harder if he wasn't such an untrustable and corrupt person himself

Oh, for sure, he is a poop.

it's like when michael cohen tries to school everyone

as an honorable man for the past...*checks notes*...several weeks, i have important things to say about the lack of honor for the people i once served for years

also if the coup would have worked, barr would have carried into the new term as the new lord of justice

I'm sure he quit because he understood it had almost no chance of success, especially once the military told Trump to pound sand.

Bill Barr is a shit and should be in gulag but it’s good that he, as an administration henchman, is saying this to a Fox audience.

The more generous way to read it is, "I am a corrupt creature, a calculating, conniving crony, but even I have my limits."

I mean, he was brought on as AG because of his track record of successfully covering up presidential misconduct.

I wouldn't want to send him to a gulag, but I do think it would be fitting if he were disbarred.

i'm sure trump hates his guts, but barr did him a major solid by putting out that memo (or press release? I don't remember) that purportedly summarized the findings of the Mueller report, weeks/months before that report became public. he straight up lied to protect Trump. he made it seem like an exoneration for Trump. Even now, to this day, since no one ever reads shit like the Muller report, even many/most liberal/left people have no idea how damning it was (and even that, from Mueller's team, seeming to bend over backward for Trump at every point)

it took a village to polish that turd for America

Didn't the unredacted version of the Mueller report he summarized just come out a few days ago, revealing ... nothing? Or did I miss something.

barr is a pile of steaming shit but the part in that clip about how long the DOJ should be expected to wait before acting is pretty solid

xpost i didn't know that an unredacted version just came out, i wasn't trying to reference current news, whoops. but...

it wasn't the redactions that were the problems with it. i'm talking about criticisms that were evident as soon as the Mueller report came out. differences between how Barr described them (falsely, inaccurately "leaked" it, more like) and what the actual contents of the released report were.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/05/judge-slams-bill-barr-122449
https://www.acslaw.org/projects/the-presidential-investigation-education-project/other-resources/stark-contrasts-between-the-mueller-report-and-attorney-general-barrs-summary/

I wouldn't want to send him to a gulag, but I do think it would be fitting if he were disbarred.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)

I see what you did there

“The inconsistencies between Attorney General Barr’s statements, made at a time when the public did not have access to the redacted version of the Mueller Report to assess the veracity of his statements, and portions of the redacted version of the Mueller Report that conflict with those statements cause the Court to seriously question whether Attorney General Barr made a calculated attempt to influence public discourse about the Mueller Report in favor of President Trump despite certain findings in the redacted version of the Mueller Report to the contrary,” the judge added.

wow, Barr got slammed on that one! so many consequences for him!!

bill barr was like, damn, i'm never going to be invited on television again

I see what you did there

heh

Asked what he thought of the argument for the appointment of a special master, Mr. Barr laughed. “I think it’s a crock of shit,” he said, adding, “I don’t think a special master is called for.” https://t.co/auJhHiRXGN

— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) September 2, 2022

Special mastur amirite

I've a hunch that Barr is deeply offended that, after Trump hired him as AG, he's publicly employed a long list of lawyers who are complete hacks and fools, thus forcing Barr to be associated with them in the public mind.

Right. Barr may be a liar, an authoritarian and an enabler of authoritarians, but he is neither a hack nor a fool.

no he's a hack

Yeah but he is a *conceited* hack, and one whose father helped give Jeffrey Epstein a leg up into high society. We must respect him.

I guess we can at least agree he is not a quack.

He’s just a fucking asshole GOP apparatchik.

The best description I ever read of Barr's look was "Steve Bannon Meets Queer Eye."

He’d still be carrying water for Trump if it was in any way in his interest to do so. He’s just making a different calculation these days.

He was awful as Poppy's AG

Alfred have you read Russ Baker’s book “Family of Secrets,” and if so do you regard it as quackery or a pretty good portrayal of how the Bush family situated themselves at the center of American power?

William Barr a/k/a "Robert Johnson"

I wonder if he met the devil at a crossroads?

I had some sake and I want to talk JFK.

hell yeah

treeship, I'd love to chill with you and sake

Me too. Lemme know when you are in nyc.

I had my first negroni the other night and my bestie said "what put you in the mood for that"

I mentioned a friend in South Florida :)