[ April 18, 2024 ]
Which is exactly what the treasonous Democrats want to do – shred our norms and institutions.
William Barr: Trump’s critics, not Trump, are ‘shredding our norms and our institutions’
Attorney General William Barr blamed President Trump’s political rivals for “shredding our institutions,” dismissing critics who argue the commander in chief is to blame for a lack of normalcy.
Soon after gaining new powers to declassify documents in his review of the origins of the Russia investigation, Barr told CBS that Trump’s naysayers clamoring for the takedown of a democratically elected president are the true disrupters.
Story continues below advertisement“I think it’s important that we not, in this period of intense partisan feeling, destroy our institutions. I think one of the ironies today is that people are saying that it’s President Trump that’s shredding our institutions. I really see no evidence of that,” Barr said in an interview that aired Friday. “From my perspective, the idea of resisting a democratically elected president and basically throwing everything at him and, you know, really changing the norms on the grounds that we have to stop this president, that is where the shredding of our norms and our institutions is occurring.
Ever since he took office, a common refrain for Trump’s critics is “This is not normal,” referring to the president’s free-wheeling governing style and confrontational demeanor. Talk of resistance among federal officials against the president has become a well-worn theme.
Special counsel Robert Mueller was unable to find criminal conspiracy by Trump’s campaign, but refused to clear Trump of obstruction in his 22-month Russia investigation, and rank-and-file Democrats and 2020 presidential candidates have escalated calls for impeachment proceedings against Trump. Even a hesitant House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., acknowledged, “Nothing is off the table.” And those Democrats have received a boost from the people at the center of Barr and DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s inquiries, who are rattling off about Trump. Former FBI Director James Comey called the president “a liar who doesn’t care what damage he does to vital institutions” in a Washington Post op-ed. Former CIA Director John Brennan argued Mueller’s public address on Wednesday amplifies “cry for impeachment.”
Barr is now engaged in an effort to “investigate the investigators” and has acknowledged there was suspicious behavior by top officials in charge of intelligence and examining ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, including Comey, Brennan, and ex-FBI special agent Peter Strzok, who exchanged anti-Trump text messages with a colleague.
Trump has accused Comey, who oversaw the beginning of the counterintelligence investigation into his 2016 campaign, of committing “treason,” a crime that is punishable by death in the U.S. Barr said he disagrees with Trump’s “treason” accusation as a legal matter.
[Related: James Comey: Trump’s treason talk is a ‘dumb lie’]
Although GOP investigators have high hopes for uncovering a deep net of high-ranking officials who sought to undermine Trump, expecting charges for crimes lesser than treason, Barr warned his findings might not be so clear-cut, as it can be difficult to determine motives.
“When you’re dealing with official government contact, intent is frequently a murky issue,” Barr said. “I’m not suggesting that people did what they did necessarily because of conscious, nefarious motives. Sometimes people can convince themselves that what they’re doing is in the higher interest, the better good. They don’t realize that what they’re doing is really antithetical to the democratic system that we have. They start viewing themselves as the guardians of the people that are more informed and insensitive than everybody else. They can, in their own mind, they can have those kinds of motives. And sometimes they can look at evidence and facts through a biased prism that they themselves don’t realize.”
“That something objectively as applied as a neutral principle across the board really you know, shouldn’t be the standard used in the case but because they have a particular bias they don’t see that,” he added. “So that’s why procedures and standards are important, and review afterward is an important way of making sure that government power is being conscientiously and properly applied. It doesn’t necessarily mean that there are people, you know, that people have crossed lines have done so with corrupt intent or anything like that.”
Asked about the text messages from Strzok, who was the lead investigator of the Hillary Clinton emails inquiry and opened the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in the summer of 2016, Barr admitted it is difficult not to think there was bias.
But he suggested that if the same discussions were being had about President Barack Obama, then the situation would be viewed from a different lens.
“I think if the shoe was on the other foot, we could be hearing a lot about it. If those kinds of discussions were held, you know when Obama first ran for office, people talking about Obama in those tones and suggesting that ‘Oh that he might be a Manchurian candidate for Islam or something like that,’ you know some wild accusations like that, and you had that kind of discussion back and forth, you don’t think we would be hearing a lot more about it?” Barr said.
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23 Comments
4 years ago
Very interesting tonights view of American politics, and Assange
Usually these two have been against Trump but tonight they sound like been on Trump and Assange’s side
Planet America
The Chaser’s Chas Licciardello and the ABC’s John Barron set out to discover the real America — its politics and its people — with US and Australian experts coming along for the ride!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/programs/planet-america/
4 years ago
Reply to
knightsstrength
It’s very curious to me when the Media/Reporters and these so-called experts go out to interview people. They claim to only select a few from every political and/or economic persuasion, and yet they always end up making us believe one thing in the liberal’s favor, which means that if they told the truth about what people really believe, they wouldn’t have a show at all. I think they doctor their stats, lie between their teeth and want America to believe them, but THEIR AGENDA is always OPPOSITE the side of liberty, freedom, and patriotism.
The MSM is the problem these days, except for OANN, NEWSMAX, and those at Geller Report. The MSM IS THE PROBLEM in that they skew the truth to fit their own narrative. MORE Americans are finding this out, THANK GOD.
These alphabet channels (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC AND YES, EVEN FOX NEWS), and the link you gave, isn’t worth my time because I already know their agenda against Trump.
4 years ago
Reply to
SoftwareBabeOHIO
Shame you were not watching Australian Skynews over the last few weeks to see the issues corruption by the left in Australia in the lead up and during the Australuan elections on a whole range of issues.
Here are a few I managed to find
Labor’s electric car push sounds like another pink batts scheme ‘on steroids’: Bolt
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6021146129001
Global warming ‘scare’ doomed Labor: Bolt
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6038846473001
ABC pushing Global Warming
The ABC is toxic and ‘a menace’ to democracy: Bolt
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6034583968001
Left had great financial support
Shorten ‘caught in first stage of grief’ over election loss
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/5cdc9a4023eec6001c65b7c2
4 years ago
Reply to
knightsstrength
I seldom read FOREIGN news sources UNLESS it comes from ISRAEL, but I will take a look at your links 😉 I read some Canadian news, specifically, https://canadafreepress.com/
4 years ago
Yup! That’s about right. TRUMP isn’t destroying anything. Liberals are shifting the blame FROM THEMSELVES, to Trump and his followers. EVIL IS EVIL and there’s no mistaking that evil when you hear/watch Hollywood’s vitriol against Trump and the Democrats outrage of any SUCCESS Trump has FOR AMERICA AND HER CITIZENS. From trying to destroy our Electoral College to accusing Conservatives of what is actually in the Liberals’ hearts/soul, to using whatever satanic evil they can use to destroy their opponents, DEMOCRATS AND LIBERALS AIM TO DESTROY AMERICA.
Satan’s minions/slaves, Socialists, Communists, and LIBERAL people are trying their best to go against ANY liberty in this country. THAT IS WHAT THEY DO. Read the Communist Manifesto and then tell me it doesn’t sound like they have just about succeeded.
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~lebelp/MarxEngelsTheCommunistManifesto1848.pdf
JUST KNOW THIS:
Communism is a political and economic doctrine that aims to REPLACE PRIVATE PROPERTY and a profit-based economy with PUBLIC OWNERSHIP, controlled and distributed by the STATE for communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society. Communism is thus a form of socialism—a higher and more advanced form, according to its advocates. YOU OWN NOTHING. THE STATE DOES.
COMMUNISM REMOVES LIBERTIES AND FREEDOMS and replaces them with law, rules, and demands to all its people, EXCEPT the ruling State. YOU LIKE DICTATORSHIP?
It always starts with the MEDIA NEWS. When Communists can control the Media and then schools, and if the citizens do not oppose it vehemently, COMMUNISM TAKES ROOT AND EVENTUALLY ALL LIBERTIES DISAPPEAR OVER A PERIOD OF TIME. Liberals hate Trump BECAUSE he doesn’t hold back with TRUTH and it destroys his opponents.
4 years ago
Reply to
SoftwareBabeOHIO
That is the plan! The Naked Communist by Cleon Skousen spells it out for those in doubt.
Most of the goals have already been accomplished.
THE NAKED COMMUNIST: 45 COMMUNIST GOALS as you can see in the PDF below.
http://restoring-america.com/Documents/THE%20NAKED%20COMMUNIST%20GOALS%20WITH%20NOTES.pdf
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
US Democrats = tyrants with oligarch power circle
Maduro = tyrant with oligarch power circle
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“I think it’s important that we not, in this period of intense partisan feeling, destroy our institutions. I think one of the ironies today is that people are saying that it’s President Trump that’s shredding our institutions. I really see no evidence of that,” Barr said in an interview that aired Friday. “From my perspective, the idea of resisting a democratically elected president and basically throwing everything at him and, you know, really changing the norms on the grounds that we have to stop this president, that is where the shredding of our norms and our institutions is occurring.” – USA AG, Barr
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– Democrats WANT to destroy USA institutions
– because they want to wreck the country
– so that they can subjugate the citizenry
– chaos always benefits tyrants
– because it helps them grab power
– tyrants are the same everywhere, since 350 BC
– they goal is to grab all the power and money
– and subjugate the people by wrecking the country
– because people who are poor, sick and hopeless
– are easy to subjugate
4 years ago
Reply to
SoftwareBabeOHIO
Sometime in the 1940’s – Communist HQ communique to all party members : “When certain obstructionists become too irritating, label them, after subtle buildups, as Fascists or Nazis or AntiSemetics, and use the prestige of anti-fascist and tolerance organizations as a means to discredit them. In the public mind, constantly associate those who oppose us with names that already have a bad smell, the association will, after lengthy repetition, become fact”.
Similar propaganda techniques were developed and used by the Nazi regime and were quite effective – Goebbels infamous “Tell a lie often enough…”, and his “Truth becomes the enemy of the state” lines are well crafted, evil instruments of public opinion control. Those who are behind all this (remember Bush’s speech, late 1990’s, “We will establish a New World Order and it will be great”) are employing all these techniques to accomplish their goals, but I don’t think that just because they are using Communist or Nazi propaganda methods, that they are communist forces.
These methods are being used because they are effective, proven so in the real world as revealed in history. I think that the only way to understand what is happening on the global scale is to look at this from a “spiritual” perspective ; the source of “light” and of “darkness” – good vs evil. With a temporary exception for the US, the West has fallen from God’s grace and evil has filled the vacuum just as darkness will engulf a room once the light is gone. These “tools” are simply the best means of aiding and abetting their goals for civilizational collapse.
Luciferians comprise the cabal at the core of the NWO ; their plan for a one world government, religion and currency is right out of prophetical scripture – the “beast” system, and is near fruition. They will be successful for a short while, but it will quickly turn to hell on earth before the end comes. The shear number of end time prophecies converging with world events is telling anyone who would listen that this time is upon us. God’s great and final judgement isn’t coming – it has already begun.
4 years ago
Reply to
James Jones
I agree with all that you said. WE ARE IN A SPIRITUAL BATTLE FOR AMERICA(NS). And, I KNOW how it all ends. JESUS WINS. SATAN AND HIS MINIONS LOSE.
But, people need to understand what is at stake. ANY AND ALL LIBERTIES/FREEDOMS ARE AT STAKE, not just souls.
4 years ago
Reply to
SoftwareBabeOHIO
I am with you as well. Liberties and freedoms are indeed at stake and are worth whatever effort we can make to preserve them for as long as we can. As much as I believe Islam is a tool of our real enemy, I also think that wherever it spreads the most, is likely to suffer the worst as judgement proceeds. I could be wrong, but a bloodthirsty “religion” (Rev.13:11-20) that especially likes to use beheadings (Rev.20:4) as its’ means to murder, fits in well with the scriptures.
I also realize though, that America in the near future, is not the America she has been – she will not escape what is coming. Exactly how and when that happens is not clear enough to say with certainty, but is very likely not far away (less than 10yrs.) and does not seem to fit with a Trump presidency. That a “beast” from the above scriptures is able to act as it will in that day, is evidence of a radically changed America that no longer either is able to intervene or perhaps “cares” what geopolitical events are occurring worldwide.
But, as you say, God’s will wins out. His kingdom becomes established on earth, and for all those who are His, it will be a day of great glory and final victory. We should not fear it. We should embrace it, and let it inspire us to seek to do His business as best we can in the short time that is left. Maranatha
4 years ago
Reply to
James Jones
One key thing
– is to spread the idea that socialist tyrant ‘Democrats’
– make people’s lives worse on purpose
– they do this deliberately, in every place they hold power
– every vigorous State will have political disagreements
– but there is no point in debating those who seek our obliteration
– and we need to convince all democratic countries of that
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Not that I’m endorsing him and neither am I discrediting him, but way back in Reagan’s presidency and likely well before that, people saw the danger within the Democrats, “If tyranny ever comes to America, it will come in the form of Liberalism”.
There is no “fixing” things any longer, only an effort to make the best of what’s coming. This is only a temporary reprieve under Trump, likely because America had the only “sizeable” remnant of believers left in the West. God has global plans for the power and authority (including spiritual) that has been achieved in America over all other nations, and as such, He has granted a last “revival” for those who needed a push; the boldness of Trump and His hand on his shoulder has been the means by which He has worked this.
The first and most important thing is to be right with God through Christ. The other democratic countries comprising the “West” are for the most part, already past the point of hope for their respective nations as “Christian” nations any longer, and while God will not strive with man forever, He still remains present for the individual.
Were there not such a preponderance of scriptural evidence aligning with world events (and occurring so rapidly in just the last few years), I would not be saying what I’m saying. I would be advocating for aggressive action, political and other ways, to restore our countries to the Judeo/Christian heritage that built them. But the days of repentance have been called and ignored, and whether it is difficult to accept or not, our future is set according to the scriptures and His will.
“When you see these things coming to pass, look up for your redemption draweth nigh”. We are told to be watchful – to discern the times and the seasons. Are we to suppose that all these prophetical things that are happening are telling us that His promised return is at the door, or are we to suppose that it was just a dry run and all of it will now just go away only to be revitalized at some future point. Does God operate that way – tricking people into thinking one thing only to pull the rug out from under our feet. God puts no temptation before us. He said these things would be the signs preceding His return – I think we would do well to take Him at His word.
4 years ago
Reply to
James Jones
James:
– all true
– what I am doing is using economic data
– to prove that the communists / socialists / Democrats
– and all other tyrants
– have no intention of ever building the “City of God”
– because they always wreck the country
– it is true that the
– Democratic Free-Enterprise Constitutional Republic
– is designed to at least approximate God’s plan
– and the research evidence shows
– that all tyrants MUST make our lives worse
– in order to subjugate us and prevent insurrection
– and that explains why communists / socialists / Democrats
– deliberately make our lives worse
– it’s because they need that to rule unopposed
4 years ago
Reply to
SoftwareBabeOHIO
SoftwareBabeOHIO:
– thanks for the Communist Manifesto Link
– an easy pdf download
– the hard copy is also available at Amazon
– it’s vital to actually read the socialist source documents
– because we ‘cannot know the players unless we read the program’
– another eye opener is the novel “Candide” [Voltaire, 1759]
– because it inspired the French Revolution and influenced socialists
– who promoted the idea of the “commune” that inspired communism
– Candide is a really dumb book, but it does show how frustrated the French were
– because the king and his oligarch aristocracy power circle
– were clearly making people’s lives worse
4 years ago
“I think if the shoe was on the other foot, we could be hearing a lot about it. If those kinds of discussions were held, you know when Obama first ran for office, people talking about Obama in those tones and suggesting that ‘Oh that he might be a Manchurian candidate for Islam or something like that,’ you know some wild accusations like that, and you had that kind of discussion back and forth, you don’t think we would be hearing a lot more about it?” Barr said.
Who would think that about Barack Hussein Obama II ?
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
True, but obama wasn’t put through what Trump and associates have been for the last 3 years.
4 years ago
When IG report is issued to Barr, he will issue warrants, and throw the media into a tailspin.
While under indictment all the players will get a taste of what surveillance is like…
Obama, Kerry, Biden, Hillary, Jarrett, Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Rice, Yates, Power, Ohr, Lynch, Holder…and many many more…
All pick up their telephones, and it says “due to national security concerns your conversation is being recorded”
4 years ago
Reply to
762x51FMJ
I think not. Barr is already laying a groundwork of excuses not to indict e.g. “difficult to determine intent”, “transgressions may be unconscious”, etc. I suspect that when it comes down to the wire, indictments will consist of a very few virtue-signalling cases and little else…
4 years ago
Reply to
Marcus Tectus
He may be creating a climate for confessions. Like a “safe space” for ideologues and the criminally insane.
4 years ago
FOR TRUMP!
4 years ago
Doing the right thing is a novelty to Demoncraps. It’s something strange and not understandable to them. They are morally RETARDED.
4 years ago
Dear AG: When lines are crossed, motives are really moot, dontcha think, Mr. Law Enforcement? In fact, “misguided” is inherently more dangerous, isn’t it? Because those misguided folks are truly fanatics.
4 years ago
THE DIM-ocRAT Party follows the Bolsheviks which claimed to be for diversity before idiot & anti-Czarist Russian fanatic, leader of democrats, Kerensky armed the Bolsheviks & allowed their Soviets or union orgs to take over the railroads & arms manufacturing factories in major cities. We saw shades of what the Dems were seeking under The Obama whose affirmative action treatment contrasts so starkly with the treatment of Pres Trump by the media & government orgs! The Obama’s wannabe replacement Hillary had plans to confiscate guns & without due process take Republicans away! THIS LIFE, THE NEXT LIFE AND PRES TRUMP BEATING THE DIM-ocRATS IN 2020!
