To be clear, the US Department of Justice serves America, the American people, not the man in the Oval Office. Under A.G. Bill Barr the DoJ has been deeply corrupted. It now serves not the American people but the guy who nominated the bent son-of-a-bitch, Donald Trump.
Trump is embroiled in an entirely personal civil suit for defamation brought by a woman who claims he raped her in a high end New York department store in the mid-1990s. Enter "Bent Bill" Barr.
After New York state courts turned down Trump’s request to delay E. Jean Carroll’s suit, Justice Department lawyers filed court papers Tuesday aiming to shift the case into federal court and to substitute the U.S. for Trump as the defendant. That would mean the federal government, rather than Trump himself, might have to pay damages if any are awarded.
The filing complicates, at least for the moment, Carroll’s efforts to get a DNA sample from the president as potential evidence and to have him answer questions under oath.
Justice Department lawyers argue that Trump was “acting within the scope of his office” when he denied Carroll’s allegations, made last year, that he raped her in a New York luxury department store in the mid-1990s. She says his comments — including that she was “totally lying” to sell a memoir — besmirched her character and harmed her career.Trump was facing a deadline to provide a DNA sample to Ms. Carroll's lawyers. As the clock ticked down the frigging Attorney General of the United States of America intervened to take the alleged rapist, Trump, off the hook.
.. Barr seems OK with becoming embedded in what may become a stunning Trump flaming freefall a la Icarus. He certainly won't be lonely.. If Biden / Harris can take out Trump plus the corrupted US Senate.. it will be also become a protracted (never ending) dissection historically.. Nobody really likes losers.. and this would be monumental 'losing'.. and in all reality it already is. Its not about winning or great again.. its about retreat denial.. the whole shitshow. Trump holed up at Mar de Lago.. and the whole unholy gang being ripped mercilessly.. and forever. The analogies and mixed metaphors just write themselves. Trump now teeters on the buffalo jump cliff as do any and all who enabled the Trump disaster shitshow. I have not watched Michael Cohen on Maddow.. but I hear its the TV, Twitter and Web Wonder champ.. He took no prisoners.. as more rats leap from the foundering ship, their life raft is Main Media.. 'Spill' and you may be saved.. Helleluja
ReplyDeleteAs I understand it, Barr's manoeuver now puts the case in federal court, where the judge has to decide whether to hear it or remand it back to state court. That pretty much guarantees Trump won't be forced to produce anything until after the election.
ReplyDeleteStrange that an innocent man would fight so hard to avoid producing evidence that would instantly and conclusively prove his accuser to be a liar.
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The litany of tRump's abuse of power goes on and on but falls on deaf ears among the willfully ignorant (~40%) of Americans whose fantasy world is maintained by the compliant both-side-ism media.
ReplyDeleteIf only the Dems had something to offer beyond:
"Biden is not tRump"
This echoes the 2016-candidate version of tRump, when he ran against Hillary-the-warmonger. (and Eisenhower's farewell address)
ReplyDelete"Trump says US military ‘wants war’, drawing pushback from Army chief
Top general defends Pentagon leaders after US president accuses them of sending troops to combat to keep weapon manufacturers ‘happy’.|"
very muddy waters indeed
ReplyDeleteThere's no surprise that Trump would resort to anything to derail this litigation for a few months. No matter the outcome of the DoJ motions, they'll appeal and appeal. Perhaps the plaintiff should get an order requiring the DoJ to pay her full legal costs also.
What I still find troubling is that Barr, an experienced and seemingly accomplished lawyer, would keep getting dragged deeper and deeper into this nonsense. My guess is that Barr is willing to do whatever Trump wants, short of shooting Nancy Pelosi, provided Trump gives him a full pardon on the way out.
All this is, is skim in expensive clothing.
ReplyDeleteI think the word you're looking for is "scum."
ReplyDelete.. Barr is an unabashed dispenser of crazy talk evangelical horse shit
ReplyDeleteRoll that into his West Point Mafiosa entitlement
Same with Pompeo et al
But now they roll on with the brave assed BoneSpurs..
Over the rise they go.. jingle jangle
and regard the Arapaho and Apache Nations gazing back
This may be the 'Big Little Bighorn'
Let the Custer level scalping begin..
ReplyDeleteI've never managed to figure out that AG, Sal. He's knowledgeable. He's experienced. Unless he's mad he knows that he's gone rogue. He probably knows that criminal liability may attach to some of his actions. What is his end game? Has he worked out a pardon deal with Trump to take Barr off the hook on his way out the door?
.. What was ever wrong with being 'infamous' ??
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