Andrew McCabe Isn’t off the Hook Just Yet

Trump's fault some Federal judge won't hear the case.

How about everyone is in CYA mode and keeping their lips shut while Barr sheepishly says he is innocent, shrugs his shoulders, does NOT push back and PUBLICALLY scolds Trump for stating the obvious.

One look into the Epstein fiasco dictates that Barr is a composite of pieces of feces unwilling to build a case on purpose (Barr sure did a bang up job overseeing a high value witness to all kinds of stuff in Epstein) unless you smoke dope crossing State lines or think the government is corrupt.

Trump is probably frustrated because he was told months ago that Barr would "do" something by Barr himself by now. Trump got word by his own "little birdies" on the inside that Barr is a liar, hits Twitter which ticks off Barr for being called out. McCabe did everything in public, yet you believe Trump Tweeting overrides McCabe PUBLICALLY breaking the law. Convoluted and devoid of logic and centuries of jurisprudence. Hell, more people knew who Zimmerman was in a day than McCabe in what, 2 years.

“”Interesting set of priorities””

Why not just call it what it is - difference of opinion. No need for the dig!

You would most likely find the same type of people in Conn.

New England is full of them. Believe me, I live in NH but work in Mass and I would be hard pressed to count the Trump supporters in my company on one hand.

Conn is just a mixed version of Mass and NY.

The FBI hires those liberals with power Trip desires that can’t make it in private industry.

Bull crap. NOTHING will ever happen to anyone.

Barr is no better than Sessions.

This all brooming dust under the rug.

Opinions from someone who can’t count??

DJT’s administration started on Jan 20, 2017. Buy a calander.

One look into the Epstein fiasco dictates that Barr is a composite of pieces of feces unwilling to build a case on purpose (Barr sure did a bang up job overseeing a high value witness to all kinds of stuff in Epstein) unless you smoke dope crossing State lines or think the government is corrupt.

Barr is a Trump appointee. As was Jeff Sessions. At some point, DJT's defenders are going to have to accept the fact that The Donald is responsible for what happens and what doesn't happen in his own administration. Or have we all forgotten Steve Bannon and the Mooch? Or the graceless way that Trump dismisses his own people -- supposed white knights the day before yesterday -- as he pisses on them on the way out the door?

This goes back to Day 1. Trump's initial personnel operation was a shambles. It stayed a shambles for a long time. Whether it is straightened out now, I don't know. Yes, the Democrats were doing everything possible to sabotage the process (and as far as I'm concerned, the Republicans should ensure that the next Democrat president's nominees are confirmed at the same glacial pace). But Trump compounded the problem. For at least the first two years, the pace of nominations was very slow. Trump, Inc. even spent a lot of time boasting about how they weren't even going to fill a lot of the political appointee jobs, apparently on the theory that a hyperactive twitter feed can substitute for several thousand political appointees -- from the subcabinet through all the Schedule C's -- getting down into the trenches and actually managing the agencies on a day to day basis.

Personnel are policy. Anyone who doesn't understand that needs to go to the blackboard and write it a thousand times. Trump is reaping the consequences of his failure to adequately staff his administration. (This was much discussed in early 2017 by yours truly and many others.) And far too many of his picks have been disasters; I've not tried to keep a count, but I would not be surprised if Trump, at this point, has fired more of his own appointees than he has Obama holdovers.

Trump needed a committed team that seeded his own people, and good ones, in all the key points of leverage in the key agencies. The career civil servants can't be fired without good cause, but they can be moved and work can be redistributed to groups that actually support the administration's agenda. And a lot of the career people are relatively apolitical; they will do good work if a political sets the direction, runs the meetings and keeps the machine grinding along. But this doesn't happen if the president doesn't bother to appoint the director level and Schedule C staff. Trump basically defaulted on this. Twitter wars are no substitute for day to day management in the trenches. Trump raged endlessly on Twitter -- red meat for the true believers, yes -- while Obama holdovers continued as "acting" in key posts that Trump was too busy tweeting to fill.

I voted for Trump (in the general, not the primary). I presume that I will vote for him again, as the Democrats are insane/evil/stupid/criminal, or all of the above. Trump has been a better president than he was a candidate. He has had a steep learning curve to climb, and he's gotten somewhat better over time. But at this point, I can only hope that Barr and Durham will come through. It's very late in the day, but better late than never. The next Republican president, I trust, will learn from the Trump example and will take the time to actually staff up his administration.

Fair enough. Trump’s style will be the focus of the campaign. My thought is we don’t need to fuel the Dem attacks. That’s all.

Personnel are policy. Anyone who doesn’t understand that needs to go to the blackboard and write it a thousand times. Trump is reaping the consequences of his failure to adequately staff his administration. (This was much discussed in early 2017 by yours truly and many others.) And far too many of his picks have been disasters; I’ve not tried to keep a count, but I would not be surprised if Trump, at this point, has fired more of his own appointees than he has Obama holdovers.

What happened when Trump tried to fire Sessions? What happened when he tried to fire Mueller and his 16 Dirty Democrats? What happened to DNI Ratcliffe? What happened Trump’s fed picks? What happened of course is that his own party did not support him and in fact enabled the coupist assaults against POTUS and his supporters.

Do you want to blame POTUS for Mueller’s jackbooted raid on Stone? Or maybe you approve?

At some point we have to stop henpecking POTUS and support him in these historic times against this ongoing Deep State coup that is aided and abetted by his own party. Or maybe as in your case continue to heckpeck and then cast a vote for Bloomberg. He’s certainly targeting folks who think like you.

"Barr is a Trump appointee."

You forgot the other side of the equation with that *nomination* and all the politics involved thereof FRiend.

The rest of what you wrote didn't address any particular point about the particulars and Barr's actual responsibilities he ignored, was in on, or is just plain old incompetent. Either way he is compromised in some form or fashion and got pissed Trump called him out on that. People acting like Trump is a tyrant and two other Branches don't exist, give me a break.

People acting like Trump is a tyrant and two other Branches don't exist, give me a break.

Would you want to work for a boss that habitually pisses on his own staff on twitter? Leaders tend to receive the kind of loyalty that they show to subordinates. That means you handle disagreements privately and, when necessary, remove people decently.

A competent manager would not have allowed the Jeff Sessions situation to fester nearly as long as it did. Trump couldn't find a way to move Sessions out and replace him with an attorney general who wasn't recused and could do the job? Give me a break. No other president of my lifetime would have allowed this to continue.

Trump couldn't fire Sessions on twitter, and he didn't know how to move him out gracefully, without a pissing match that would have undercut him in the context of the Mueller investigation. That's on Trump, the drama queen.