Posted on 05/01/2019 3:15:40 PM PDT by Kaslin
MSNBC wasn’t the only network to interrupt the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General William Barr. ABC News decided to cut in to offer close to a half hour of Barr bashing because…they wanted to get in the allegation that he lied. This is the latest Democratic attack line, which was also manufactured without evidence. Barr being viewed, as a Trump agent was an inevitable consequence of his confirmation to the top DOJ post, despite being supremely qualified for the job. And it was on full display today. The Democrat-media complex is hard at work trying to destroy Barr, Trump, and this White House because even after the 2016 election has long passed us by—the institutional Left cannot stand that Hillary Clinton is not the president. Cecilia Vega was first at-bat—and Curtis Houck of Newsbusters was more than happy to give us the play-by-play of this nonsense:
On Wednesday morning, ABC broke in for roughly 20 minutes of coverage for the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing featuring Attorney General Bill Barr concerning the Mueller report and, predictably, ABC journalists were livid with Barr and painted him as a lying, partisan stooge. But they were undermined by chief legal analyst Dan Abrams asserting that he doesn’t think Barr critics will be able to sufficiently prove that he lied.
Senior White House correspondent Cecilia Vega told World News Tonight anchor David Muir that Barr “is facing very serious new questions, renewed questions about his credibility” in addition to the supposed Barr vs. Mueller riff.
VEGA: The — the attorney general really created the impression that Mueller's team found no wrongdoing and then we later came to find out that that is not at all what the report concluded. And just as of two hours ago, President Trump was tweeted these words that we have heard him say so many times before: “No obstruction. No collusion. Complete vindication.” That's been their narrative and in many ways, it was a gift from the attorney general. I think there are some questions right now about whether — the Democrats will certainly ask them, about whether this is the attorney general acting as the attorney general of the United States or the lawyer for President Trump.
MUIR: Or the lawyer for President Trump because remember, Bob Mueller said in his report that if we could exonerate him, we will. He did not.
And then ABC chief legal analyst Dan Abrams game in for the sack:
It was here that Abrams burst some liberal bubbles: “Look, it's a very lawyery answer, right? And this is why I don't think they’re going to be able to truly kind of prove that Barr, quote unquote, lied, right? Because I think there will be an explanation for everyone of Barr's comments about the Mueller investigation.”
The media seems to be obsessed with this letter, where Special Counsel Robert Mueller outlined his concerns to Barr. There were conversations between the two men. The letter dealt with Mueller’s concerns about Barr’s context in his released summary of the report, but was Barr’s summary inaccurate? No. Even Mueller admitted that.
Barr confirms, under oath, that when he spoke with Mueller on the phone, the Special Counsel was "very clear" that Barr's letter laying out the report's 'bottom lines' was NOT inaccurate.— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 1, 2019
And also under oath - says Mueller told him 3x that Mueller’s decision not to reach a judgement on obstruction was NOT based on DOJ policy that a President can’t be indicted. https://t.co/gXWn3GHDDu— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) May 1, 2019
"When Barr pressed him whether he thought Barr’s letter was inaccurate, Mueller said he did not, but felt that the media coverage of the letter was misinterpreting the investigation, officials said." https://t.co/39kZeTcPoS— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) May 1, 2019
Still, Democrats want Barr gone. Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) was the one on the Senate side who made that aim explicitly clear in her unhinged rant against Barr. Real Clear Politics has the transcript and the video.
SEN. MAZIE HIRONO: Mr. Barr, the American people know you are no different from Rudy Giuliani or Kellyanne Conway, or any of the other people who sacrifice their once decent reputation for the grifter and liar who sits in the oval office. You once turned down a job offer from Donald Trump to represent him as his private attorney. At your confirmation hearing, you told Sen. Feinstein that, quote, "The job of Attorney General is not the same as representing the president."
So you know the difference but you've chosen to be the president's lawyer and side with him over the interest of the American people. To start with, you should never have been involved in supervising the Robert Mueller investigation. You wrote a 19-page unsolicited memo, which you admit was not based on any fact, attacking the premise of half of the investigation. And you also should have insisted that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein recuse himself. He was not just a witness to some of the president's obstructive behavior, we now know he was in frequent personal contact of the president, a subject of the investigation. You should have left it to career officials.
Then, once the report was delivered by the special counsel, you delayed its release for more than two weeks and let the president's personal lawyers look at it before you even deigned to let the public or the Congress see it. During the time you substituted your own political judgment for the special counsel's legal conclusions in a four-page letter to Congress and now we know, thanks to a free press, that Mr. Mueller wrote you a letter objecting to your so-called summary.
When you called Mueller to discuss his letter, the reports are that he thought your summary was giving the press, Congress, and the public a misleading impression of his work. He asked you to release the report summaries to correct the misimpression you created but you refused. When you finally did decide to release the report over a congressional recess and on the eve of two major religious holidays, you called a press conference, to once again try to clear Donald Trump before anyone had a chance to read the special counsel's report and come to their own conclusions.
But when we read the report, we knew Robert Mueller's concerns were valid. And that your version of events was false. You used every advantage of your office to create the impression that the president was cleared of misconduct. You selectively quoted fragments from the special counsel's report, taking some of the most important statements out of context and ignoring the rest. You put the power and authority of the office of the attorney general and the Department of Justice, behind a public relations effort to help Donald Trump protect himself.
Finally, you lied to Congress. You told representative Charlie Crist that you didn't know what objectives Mueller's team might to the March 24 so-called summary. You told Senator Chris van Hollen that you didn't know if Bob Mueller supported your conclusions, but you knew you lied. And now, we know.
A lot of respected nonpartisan legal experts and elected officials were surprised by your efforts to protect the president. But I wasn't surprised. You did exactly what I thought you'd do, that's why I voted against your confirmation. I expected you would try to protect the president. And indeed, you did.
I mean this was a nicely wrapped Democratic line. Hirono is just insufferable. If she didn’t have Democratic talking points, could she even ask relevant questions…on anything? Remember, she got tripped up on…the basics of illegal immigration.
Still, there was not enough for obstruction and it’s now a fact, though a lot of us knew this already, that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. The lack of evidence for obstruction, however, has offered the Democrats a lifeline to continue their attacks on the Trump White House. That’s the downside. The upside is that, again, all of these allegations are without evidence, in a similar manner of the smears they lob at Barr for being an agent of Trump. It’s the same old stuff, different day. I’m okay with that because it continues to show that the media and the Democratic Party are abjectly insane over this Trump-Russia clown show, it reminds Trump voters who the enemy is and hopefully force independents away from the Democratic Party come 2020 because this rodeo is bound to become more out of control. It also keeps the liberal media angry, and when they’re infuriated and irritated, they screw up royally. Just look at the Russian collusion myth. Every so-called bombshell was debunked. Every angle rendered worthless with the Mueller report, which was a dagger to the heart of this manufactured myth produced by the Left. Let them keep embarrassing themselves. Maybe we can get them to douse themselves in gasoline and set a match. I say that figuratively of course.
Mueller's report stated "collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy as
that crime is set forth in the general federal conspiracy statute" & his investigation focused "in particular" on "liability for the crime of conspiracy" pic.twitter.com/L2OU0mQ75v— Matt Wolking (@MattWolking) May 1, 2019
Mueller's report stated "In particular, the investigation examined whether these contacts involved or resulted in coordination or a conspiracy with the Trump Campaign and Russia .... Based on the available information, the investigation did not establish such coordination." pic.twitter.com/svRzaasvec— Matt Wolking (@MattWolking) May 1, 2019
Mueller's report stated "the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities." pic.twitter.com/wD2szkA5em— Matt Wolking (@MattWolking) May 1, 2019
After two years of lying about Russia collusion? I think OJ Simpson has more credibility.
God bless you. Happens every day to me.
Those who are kind to the cruel
in the end will be cruel to the kind.
The Talmud, Qohelet Raba, 7:16.
Democrats are not good roommates or good neighbors or good anything.
I still hold a grudge for the Kenneth Starr testimony where Dems interrupted him repeatedly, harassed him, insulted him, called him names and rudely talked over him like Satanic school children (which they are).
I fill with anger and resentment recalling that day.
Then Kavanaugh.
Now AG Barr.
Dems have a lot to live down.
ABC is Disney
Stop bitching about its MSM chumps, and instead stop patronizing Disney.
I know... too inconvenient.
Let it be on their heads as the old saying goes.
ABC Fake News is grieving the absence of the meek and timid Jeff Sessions.
The intro by the pineapple princes is a perfect example of why people have come to despise politicians. Ask a question don’t pontificate. shameful
Yes, from slavery to infanticide!
fully taxpayer-funded ABC Australia is even worse. they chose Laurence Tribe, of all people, to misinterpret the story this morning:
AUDIO: 9:07 - 2 May: ABC Radio National, Australia: Breakfast: US Attorney General William Barr defends summary of Mueller report
There are growing calls for US Attorney General William Barr to resign or be impeached over his handling of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report.
It’s been revealed that Robert Mueller was dissatisfied with William Barr’s four page summary of the report in which he concluded that President Donald Trump did not collude with Russia to win the 2016 election and did not commit obstruction of justice.
In the bombshell revelation, Robert Mueller said the Attorney General’s summary “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of his work...
Guest: Laurence Tribe, Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard University
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/us-attorney-general-william-barr-mueller-report/11065460
best coverage so far is from RT - very funny:
1 May: RT: Mueller, unsatisfied with media misinterpreting Barr’s summary, sparks more misinterpretations
Special counsel Robert Mueller was not pleased with the media’s reaction to AG William Barr’s summary of his report, according to a letter he wrote which is already being (mis)interpreted by mainstream media...
TWEET: Glenn Greenwald: We’ve read the Mueller report. We know what it says. It obliterates the conspiracy theories. And Mueller said Barr’s letter *wasn’t misleading*, just that media coverage overread it. But this is the 3-year-history of this story: one-day media hysteria on Twitter that goes nowhere. -30 Apr 2019
At least one person picked up on the irony of misinterpreting a letter about the media misinterpreting a letter, and advised the curious to just read the Mueller report if they wanted to know what was in it.
https://www.rt.com/usa/458017-mueller-contests-barr-letter-media/
The dems are overplaying their dirty hands... big time!
They have insuslted and bantered the Attorney General .. not smart!! He is not going to lean their way at all.. not after the treatment he got..
Leaning is not supposed to happen anyway, but it does wsith the other side!
The dems are showing him what Trump has been going through... he for today plus a few... Trump, for 2+ years.
I see the dems as really just plain evil.. doing what they are doing.. even Barr said they are using the gov for threats .. using the power of the gov aginst the President.
The stuff that is supposed to hit the fan... BRING IT ON SOON!!
Can't say the Dems are lazy. They get around and keep busy. They say Satan works 24/7, too.
"RULE 12 For Radicals: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)"
Yes, Briliant, ABC News flunkies are card carrying members of the Clinton Crime Family.
Tune up your BS antennae any time hear any of their overwhelmingly fake news. Georgie Stephie Stephanopoulos is a leading culprit. There are others.
Me too.
“When Barr pressed Mueller on whether he thought Barr’s memo to Congress was inaccurate,
Mueller said he did not but felt that the media coverage of it was misinterpreting the investigation, officials said.”
The Washington Post 4/30/19
There is only one thing the dems can do:
INVITE OR SUBPENA ROBERT MUELLER IMMEDIATELY!!!!!
Only 35% of their online Traffic is from the USA
It was like the Kavanaugh hearings without the costumes.
Lol
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