Posted on 12/15/2020 6:03:37 AM PST by Red Badger
Attorney General William Barr announced his resignation on Monday in a letter to President Trump.
In the letter, Barr massaged Trump's ego and announced he "will spend the next week wrapping up a few remaining matters important to the administration, and depart on December 23."
The Wall Street Journal reported over the last few days that Barr personally ordered the DOJ to keep the Hunter Biden investigation under wraps.
From the WSJ on Monday, "Barr Kept Hunter Biden Probes From Public to Avoid Election Politics":
Attorney General William Barr, in the weeks before November's election, instructed prosecutors and senior colleagues to prevent word of investigations into Hunter Biden from becoming public and keep the Justice Department out of campaign politics, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Barr took more steps than previously reported to insulate the investigations, despite calls from President Trump and Republican allies to announce a probe involving President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter.
From the WSJ on Thursday, "Barr Worked to Keep Hunter Biden Probes From Public View During Election":
One investigation became public this week after federal investigators served a subpoena on Hunter Biden. The subpoena sought detailed financial information in connection with a criminal tax investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware, according to people familiar with the matter.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan had also been looking at Hunter Biden’s business and financial dealings, as part of a broader criminal investigation that two people familiar with the matter described as an international financial investigation that had been going on for at least a year. Hunter Biden is implicated in that investigation but was never a specific target for criminal prosecution, the people said. They declined to provide details on the substance of the probe.
The federal scrutiny dates back to 2018, the people familiar with the matter said.
Barr also presided over the cover-up of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged suicide.
Attorney General William Barr claimed last year that Jeffrey Epstein died due to a "perfect storm of screw-ups."
Barr's father gave Epstein, who was a 20-year-old college dropout with no credentials, his first job teaching at the prestigious Dalton School in New York City.
Barr failed to prosecute anyone involved in the RussiaGate conspiracy other than one low-level FBI lawyer and helped the DOJ successfully stall for four years without indicting any of the main co-conspirators.
Barr did nothing to prosecute the organizers behind the Black Lives Matter riots.
Barr did nothing to fight the discriminatory and Orwellian practice of "debanking" whereby online payment processors and banks are shutting down dissidents accounts over their political and religious views.
Barr also took no action to enforce obscenity laws despite requests from Republican congressmen to take action to protect children from "the prevalence of obscene pornography" online.
On the other hand, Barr did make sure to rush and announce the DOJ had found no evidence of widespread voter fraud "on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election."
Barr did work together with Chris Wray's FBI to prosecute Trump's own far-right supporters for fighting with antifa.
Barr did push to end encryption online -- which would effectively end internet anonymity.
Barr did support pre-crime red flag laws.
Barr did allow Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard to flee to Israel after changing the terms of his parole.
Barr did refuse to release 9/11 documents to the families of the victims.
Barr largely managed to avoid criticism from the right throughout his term thanks to the Q-Anon psy-op which convinced Trump supporters that "justice" was just around the corner if they simply Trust The Plan™ and ignore all the chicanery Trump administration officials were up to.
Remarkably, Q-believers are still acting like indictments are just around the corner.
I've heard speculation that the "Q" psy-op may have been directed by Ezra Cohen-Watnick, who is currently the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.
"Q" has shilled on his behalf repeatedly.
Cohen-Watnick was brought into the Trump administration by Michael Flynn, who has done a lot of dog-whistling to Q-believers.
I don't know whether Cohen-Watnick was behind "Q" or not but it certainly wouldn't shock me if that was the case.
Is covering up for the Epstein network and getting Joe Biden elected all part of the plan?
It seems to me that the deep state couldn't ask for much more!
Trump’s main problem was he trusted these people...................
A traitor.
I remember when some of us started questioning Barr and the whipping we got on here for doing so. I also find it odd that our expert radio hosts Rush, Gorka and Hannity backed Barr way past the point most of us did not anymore. It was like they were afraid to criticize him.
Must be nice to have a job where you do nothing and get paid handsomely. Which is the majority of those working for the federal government. Parasites all.
Trump’s main problem was Barr was the best Cocaine Mitch would let him have.
They can be scammed as well......................
He trusted Mitch as well.
He’s just another snake in the pit..............
No he is out officially. He is beginning out processing and will not be attending the meeting. The new Acting AG takes over all official duties today.
Nice work if you can get it....................
Seems pretty relevant after announcing so quickly after the election that he saw no widespread voter fraud, don't ya think?
You can’t fire a Senator, much less the Senate Majority Leader.
True, but you don’t have to trust them................
What can Trump do if Mitch tells him if you go outside of his list, anyone he picks will be DOA?
Then the 23rd date was just to process the final pay check .............
I tried to give Barr a fair break. Wondered if the people under him were misleading him, and he was actually a fair guy. My mind has changed because of several things:
1. Epstein dying in jail.
2. Seth Rich’s FBI information and his laptop being ‘discovered’ after 4.5 years of FOIA requests said there wasn’t any.
3. The entire political spying debacle, and nothing was done.
4. Finally, having 17 agents respond to a garage door pull at NASCAR and having nobody ready to check for voter fraud, and claiming it didn’t happen.
5. Having the FBI been notified that they Biden laptop had criminal information on it, and then not picking it up or having it entered into evidence in the computer system at the FBI until released by outside entities.
6. He hid valid investigations, that could have easily helped people make a wise choice in the election, by having the laptop buried at the FBI, not acting on it, and then saying he didn’t wan’t to release political info. The last one doesn’t ring true after the FBI hid the laptop.
Barr was the point man, in change of the DOJ and FBI actions and subversion. He was responsible, and he isn’t stupid or incompetent, which means he was committing sedition against Trump and the will of the American public. Those aren’t unfortunate coincidences, that was enemy action against people and justice.
I am not blaming democrats for the election. I am blaming the US government which has become an entity of itself who no longer wants input from the voters. SCOTUS just proves that point. We have a government problem.
Yet another card carrying deep state member did his part to get President Trump out of office.
JoMa
Yep
Very well stated and is my line of thinking as well.
With only a little more than a month before Biden is sworn in, a Special Prosecutor for the Hunter/Jim Biden Cases need to be appointed NOW.
I doubt if it was that pointed.
Mitch probably gave him a list with a big smile and a glad-hand and told Trump they were ALL good ‘conservatives’ who could be trusted implicitly.................
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