Continued Trump Administration Fallout

[Dill]

(05-05-2021, 10:41 AM)Au165 Wrote: There will be a lot of these stories over the next couple of months/years so figured we could condense it in one running thread. We already had Rudy getting squeezed the other day, but now we have a federal judge giving a scathing ruling essentially saying Barr lied to both Congress and the public about why he chose not to charge Trump for obstruction laid out in the Mueller report.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/05/05/judge-orders-justice-department-release-trump-obstruction-memo/4952659001/

It'll be slow, but we will eventually unravel how much crap was actually going on within the administration.

LOL I was just about to start a thread on the NYT article about this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/us/politics/barr-trump-obstruction-russia-inquiry.html

In this case, it looks like the intent is to make public Barr's "cover" for arguing that Trump had been exonerated by the Mueller Report--which is still the assumption of every Trump supporter who claims the Russia investigation was a "hoax."

Barr argued there was a deliberation in which he received legal advice that Trump could not be prosecuted. Judge Jackson, who has now seen the "deliberative" memo, calls BS on that. There was never a question over whether Trump would be prosecuted. And so no "deliberation" took place.

Now Barr doesn't get to claim the protection of deliberation.

And glad to see this issue brought back before the public. I remember in this forum there were actually people saw no need to check Barr's "summary" of the MR against the Report itself.  And could not be dissuaded from Barr's misinterpretation.