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Trump Nominates New Attorney General
Townhall ^ | 12/07/2018 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 12/07/2018 7:15:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind

President Trump has nominated a "brilliant man" to replace Jeff Sessions as attorney general, the president said outside the White House Friday. He has tapped William Barr, former attorney general for the late President George H. W. Bush, for the position.

BREAKING; “I think he will serve with great distinction.” President Trump announces William Barr as new attorney general pic.twitter.com/mKzYDZgNj9— TODAY (@TODAYshow) December 7, 2018

Trump said he "did not know" Barr until recently, but found him to be respected by lawmakers from both partIes. He predicted the process will go "very quickly."  

However, Democrats have hinted that they will make the nomination process a nightmare for Barr, considering his past criticisms about special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. He has also reportedly suggested that Hillary Clinton's role in the Uranium One scandal was more worthy of investigation than Russian collusion.

The Mueller probe has been an Achilles heel for the office of attorney general the past couple of years. When Jeff Sessions felt pressured to recuse himself from the investigation because Democrats didn't like an answer he gave during a congressional hearing, Trump never let him forget it, calling him "weak" and "beleaguered."



TOPICS: Breaking News; Government
KEYWORDS: ag; agbarr; attorneygeneral; braking; gunrights; guns; heights; jeffsessions; nra; post3; trumpcabinet; trumpdoj; williambarr
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To: heights
Trump will Never build a Wall, but boy is he good for CAVING to the Deep State.

Your anti-Trump bullshit is really getting tiresome, troll.

81 posted on 12/07/2018 11:15:52 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Jed Eckert

Is this BILL BARR or Bob Barr?


82 posted on 12/07/2018 11:17:50 AM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (Meuller, Rosenstein,....co-conspirators to Obstruct Justice over Uranium One)
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To: savedbygrace; Lurkinanloomin

“VP Pence is the President of the Senate. So, he comes into the Senate, takes the gavel and announces a recess. No vote required. Done.”

Can he actually do that?

I know that he can break ties in votes that are 50-50 But did not know he could do that.

Good idea

Yes Trump needs to make recess appointments for anyone fitting for a position.


83 posted on 12/07/2018 11:20:41 AM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: Mouton

Thanks that answers my question to that poster.

You sure?


84 posted on 12/07/2018 11:22:45 AM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Larry Klayman suggested the one person who could be of great value to the President in saving the country, BOB BARR.

Not Bill...

Why doesn’t the President seem to be listening to his friends?

Where is the defense of Dr. Corsi? The pardon of Mike Flynn? The pardon of Julian Assange? The DECLASSIFICATION of documents?


85 posted on 12/07/2018 11:26:46 AM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (Meuller, Rosenstein,....co-conspirators to Obstruct Justice over Uranium One)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Wouldn’t it be a tragedy if the country was lost because the President misread a name?


86 posted on 12/07/2018 11:32:33 AM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (Meuller, Rosenstein,....co-conspirators to Obstruct Justice over Uranium One)
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To: Jed Eckert

Based upon the excerpts of Barr’s resume you posted, Trump could have done far worse in his choice of nominee.

That resume is very encouraging.


87 posted on 12/07/2018 11:38:21 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: SKI NOW
their roll

role

88 posted on 12/07/2018 11:42:38 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

Yep, if Biden spoke highly of him, it’s not a good thing.


89 posted on 12/07/2018 11:47:40 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: enumerated
BOOM 💥
90 posted on 12/07/2018 11:58:41 AM PST by ResisTyr (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God " ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Spacetrucker
We have been being played. No doubt about it now.

When the rest of you realize that we'll welcome you back home
91 posted on 12/07/2018 12:15:39 PM PST by ssfromla (I am the Mouth)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch; Windflier
Is this BILL BARR or Bob Barr?

As others pointed out it's Bill Barr. My bad. Speed reading is not my thing. All I saw was Barr and got ahead of myself.

92 posted on 12/07/2018 12:15:50 PM PST by Jed Eckert
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To: Moonman62
They've all been great actors. I have to give them that much.

They've been dragging this out and we look like the fools we are.

I can see them now..laughing at us and congratulating each other on the fine job they've done to keep the right down.
93 posted on 12/07/2018 12:20:10 PM PST by ssfromla (I am the Mouth)
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To: heights

And about to can yet another Chief of Staff?


94 posted on 12/07/2018 12:23:48 PM PST by TangledUpInBlue
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To: marajade

Well, at least now they can stop bitching about Whittaker.


95 posted on 12/07/2018 12:25:51 PM PST by TangledUpInBlue
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To: VanDeKoik

I wasn’t really paying much attention to who he originally chose but I do remember everyone wanting Sessions.


96 posted on 12/07/2018 12:27:39 PM PST by TangledUpInBlue
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To: VanDeKoik
Part of me wishes we could vote for new conservatives, because this group of idiots we keep getting on FR are really wearing thin.

Agreed. The latest group of gas lighting, pearl clutching bed wetters has take its toll.
97 posted on 12/07/2018 12:31:55 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Dalberg-Acton
Trump nominated William Barr, not Bob Barr.

Nor Roseanne Barr

98 posted on 12/07/2018 12:39:36 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Gregg Jarrett cautioned against Trump choosing Barr to replace Sessions as AG saying he is a Washington insider.

As for William Barr, yes unquestionable integrity, a fine reputation, great experience – he brings gravitas to the job but he is an establishment figure at a time that I think we need a disruptor as Attorney General,” Jarrett said, adding, “Somebody who would vigorously go after corrupt officials at the FBI and Department of Justice who were abusing their positions of power and attempting to undermine democracy.”

Jarrett then concluded, “I’m afraid Barr is not that guy.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/gregg-jarrett-cautions-trump-against-his-top-choice-for-attorney-general-william-barr-is-an-establishment-insider-video/


99 posted on 12/07/2018 12:56:07 PM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: ssfromla

Another DEEP STATE AG pick by Trump doesn’t sound too bad......

....for the Obama/Clinton criminals which Nunes and other House Republicans have worked so hard to expose....

Also, the DEEP STATE GLOBALIST CFR-controlled uniparty establishment and all the criminals which have been attempting to nullify the last Presidential election probably don’t have much to lose sleep over....


100 posted on 12/07/2018 1:04:01 PM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (Meuller, Rosenstein,....co-conspirators to Obstruct Justice over Uranium One)
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