Donald Trump’s desperate, lie-filled letter to try to contain the damage from Barr’s book

[ataraxia]

As the walls continue to close around Trump, the criminal is looking more and more desperate and outlandish with his lies- lies which at this point only the most die hard, true believer cultists could possibly believe anymore.

“ In advance of the release of Bill Barr's memoir of his time in the Trump administration on Tuesday, NBC's Lester Holt sat down with the former attorney general to talk about his time as the nation's top cop.

Ahead of the airing of the interview, former President Donald Trump sent a three-page letter to Holt repeatedly criticizing Barr, while also continuing to push the 2020 election fraud conspiracy.”

Analysis: The 20 most outlandish lines from Donald Trump's letter to Lester Holt

In advance of the release of Bill Barr's memoir of his time in the Trump administration on Tuesday, NBC's Lester Holt sat down with the former attorney general to talk about his time as the nation's top cop.

www.cnn.com

 

[ataraxia]

Are there any of Trump’s former associates, employees, or cabinet members left who have have anything nice to say about this contemptible human being? From Barr to Tillerson, Pence, Cohen, Mattis, etc… anyone who has gotten to know him have warned the public about what a snake this guy is. At some point you have to start wondering if there is really something to this guy just being a contemptible human being.

 

[ataraxia]

Some highlights from the letter:

“ letter:"Despite massive amounts of evidence, with far more produced after his leaving, he refused to go after the fraud and irregularities that had so openly taken place in the 2020 Presidential Election."

Comment: "The fact is, we have looked at the major claims your people are making, and they are bullshit." -- Barr said in an excerpt of his forthcoming book published by The Wall Street Journal.

Letter: Even the Mueller investigation, which came out with a finding of NO COLLUSION, should have gone much faster, especially after knowing all of the information that was available and already at their disposal."

Comment:What Mueller found was that there wasn't an express agreement between Trump's campaign and the Russians to collude in hopes of getting Trump elected. As Mueller put it: "Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."

"As everyone knows, my campaign was SPIED on, and Bill Barr did nothing about it."

Comment: Way back in 2017 Trump -- (another of just crazy sh-t he just says, without any proof)-- suggested that former President Barack Obama had ordered wiretaps of Trump Tower phones during the 2016 campaign. And again earlier this year, Trump insisted that a filing by special counsel John Durham confirmed the spying. It did not. As Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler put it last month: "The Durham filing says much less than what Trump claims. Thus far, Durham has not charged anyone with spying on Trump. In fact, the statute of limitations has already expired for a key meeting cited in the filing."

 

[ALiberalModerate]

Are there any of Trump’s former associates, employees, or cabinet members left who have have anything nice to say about this contemptible human being? From Barr to Tillerson, Pence, Cohen, Mattis, etc… anyone who has gotten to know him have warned the public about what a snake this guy is. At some point you have to start wondering if there is really something to this guy just being a contemptible human being.

Don’t you understand? All those people are the swamp and deep state.

 

[ataraxia]

Letter: "As it turned out, they spied in 2016 and if possible, did far worse than that in 2020 -- they RIGGED the Election."

Comment: It's worth repeating Barr here: "The fact is, we have looked at the major claims your people are making, and they are bullshit."

Letter: "Despite the many crimes committed by the Biden family, I did not push Barr to go after them."

[narrator voice] There is no evidence that the Biden family committed any crimes, much less "many" crimes.

 

[ataraxia]

Don’t you understand? All those people are the swamp and deep state.

Yes of course- as are every single scientific organization on the entire planet on climate change, and every single medical and scientific organization on the entire planet on the pandemic. Only Trump knows more than all the doctors, scientists, and generals, and can be trusted. Because obviously he always tells the truth, right?

 

[less right]

Trump demands loyalty but refuses to give any.

And his minions love it.

 

[Argent]

Bill Barr is worse than pond scum. He's the slimy dead detritus on the bottom of the pond. In spite of denouncing *Rump, he recently said he'd vote for him if he was the 2024 nominee. There isn't a low low enough to which these people can sink.

 

[Buckeyes85]

It never ceases to amaze me that this man is so freaking narcissistic and/or stupid that he cannot appreciate how terrible a leader it proves him to be when he vilifies former employees/members of his staff and cabinet.

He promised to hire only the best and brightest. All of them either quit, or got fired for ever disagreeing with him. And then he labels every one of them absolute lazy idiots who were terrible at their job. Hey dumbass, you hired all of them!!!!!

 

[post]

As the walls continue to close around Trump, the criminal is looking more and more desperate and outlandish with his lies- lies which at this point only the most die hard, true believer cultists could possibly believe anymore.

“ In advance of the release of Bill Barr's memoir of his time in the Trump administration on Tuesday, NBC's Lester Holt sat down with the former attorney general to talk about his time as the nation's top cop.

Ahead of the airing of the interview, former President Donald Trump sent a three-page letter to Holt repeatedly criticizing Barr, while also continuing to push the 2020 election fraud conspiracy.”

Analysis: The 20 most outlandish lines from Donald Trump's letter to Lester Holt

In advance of the release of Bill Barr's memoir of his time in the Trump administration on Tuesday, NBC's Lester Holt sat down with the former attorney general to talk about his time as the nation's top cop.

www.cnn.com

It Is Not News that Bill Barr Lied to Protect Kleptocracy - emptywheel

Before Russia invaded a peaceful country, it attempted to achieve the same ends by cultivating Trump, by trading him electoral wins for Ukrainian sovereignty. Bill Barr was a central part in letting that effort continue unchecked until January 20, 2021. Yet TV journalists are interviewing him as...

www.emptywheel.net

March 8, 2022
"...Even before Jeff Sessions was fired, Barr decided — based on the false claims he saw on Fox News — that the allegations against Donald Trump were bullshit. He wrote up a memo suggesting that it was okay for the President to fire the FBI director to cover up his own crimes. And based on that audition, he was nominated and confirmed as Attorney General.

When the investigation into the aftermath of that firing shut down weeks after he was confirmed, Barr lied to downplay the degree to which the President had enthusiastically welcomed the help of a hostile country to get elected. Among the things his lies did was to hide that the investigation into whether Roger Stone conspired with Russia — with Trump’s full knowledge — remained ongoing, a detail that remains unreported everywhere but here. Barr also issued a prosecution declination for crimes still in progress, Trump’s ultimately successful effort to buy the silence of witnesses against him with pardons. Barr poured whiskey to celebrate his old friend Robert Mueller’s frailty before Congress.

Then Barr turned to protecting Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Sean Hannity when a whistleblower objected that Trump was extorting Volodymyr Zelenskyy for help on his reelection campaign. He did so in a number of ways, including interfering in legally mandated congressional and election oversight. He also stripped the whistleblower complaint to ensure that investigative steps put into place to protect national security in the wake of 9/11 wouldn’t tie Trump’s extortion attempt to an ongoing investigation into Ukrainian efforts to exploit Rudy Giuliani’s corruption to protect (Russian-backed) Ukrainian corruption. Barr’s efforts to hide the national security impact of Russian-backed Ukrainian efforts to corrupt American democracy gave Republicans cover — cover that every single Republican save Justin Amash and Mitt Romey availed themselves of — to leave Trump in place even after he put his own personal welfare above national security.

Then Barr turned to undoing the work of the Russian investigation. After Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled that the case against Mike Flynn was sound and Michael Horowitz concluded that the Russian investigation was not a partisan witch hunt, ..."

 

[Gateman_Wen]

As the walls continue to close around Trump, the criminal is looking more and more desperate and outlandish with his lies- lies which at this point only the most die hard, true believer cultists could possibly believe anymore.

“ In advance of the release of Bill Barr's memoir of his time in the Trump administration on Tuesday, NBC's Lester Holt sat down with the former attorney general to talk about his time as the nation's top cop.

Ahead of the airing of the interview, former President Donald Trump sent a three-page letter to Holt repeatedly criticizing Barr, while also continuing to push the 2020 election fraud conspiracy.”

Analysis: The 20 most outlandish lines from Donald Trump's letter to Lester Holt

In advance of the release of Bill Barr's memoir of his time in the Trump administration on Tuesday, NBC's Lester Holt sat down with the former attorney general to talk about his time as the nation's top cop.

www.cnn.com

When a sleaze like Billy the Bagman thinks you're a scumbag...

 

[Gateman_Wen]

It Is Not News that Bill Barr Lied to Protect Kleptocracy - emptywheel

Before Russia invaded a peaceful country, it attempted to achieve the same ends by cultivating Trump, by trading him electoral wins for Ukrainian sovereignty. Bill Barr was a central part in letting that effort continue unchecked until January 20, 2021. Yet TV journalists are interviewing him as...

www.emptywheel.net

March 8, 2022
"...Even before Jeff Sessions was fired, Barr decided — based on the false claims he saw on Fox News — that the allegations against Donald Trump were bullshit. He wrote up a memo suggesting that it was okay for the President to fire the FBI director to cover up his own crimes. And based on that audition, he was nominated and confirmed as Attorney General.

When the investigation into the aftermath of that firing shut down weeks after he was confirmed, Barr lied to downplay the degree to which the President had enthusiastically welcomed the help of a hostile country to get elected. Among the things his lies did was to hide that the investigation into whether Roger Stone conspired with Russia — with Trump’s full knowledge — remained ongoing, a detail that remains unreported everywhere but here. Barr also issued a prosecution declination for crimes still in progress, Trump’s ultimately successful effort to buy the silence of witnesses against him with pardons. Barr poured whiskey to celebrate his old friend Robert Mueller’s frailty before Congress.

Then Barr turned to protecting Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Sean Hannity when a whistleblower objected that Trump was extorting Volodymyr Zelenskyy for help on his reelection campaign. He did so in a number of ways, including interfering in legally mandated congressional and election oversight. He also stripped the whistleblower complaint to ensure that investigative steps put into place to protect national security in the wake of 9/11 wouldn’t tie Trump’s extortion attempt to an ongoing investigation into Ukrainian efforts to exploit Rudy Giuliani’s corruption to protect (Russian-backed) Ukrainian corruption. Barr’s efforts to hide the national security impact of Russian-backed Ukrainian efforts to corrupt American democracy gave Republicans cover — cover that every single Republican save Justin Amash and Mitt Romey availed themselves of — to leave Trump in place even after he put his own personal welfare above national security.

Then Barr turned to undoing the work of the Russian investigation. After Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled that the case against Mike Flynn was sound and Michael Horowitz concluded that the Russian investigation was not a partisan witch hunt, ..."

I don't think anyone is suggesting Barr isn't a criminal.

 

[ataraxia]

It never ceases to amaze me that this man is so freaking narcissistic and/or stupid that he cannot appreciate how terrible a leader it proves him to be when he vilifies former employees/members of his staff and cabinet.

How stupid does that make his cult believers?

 

[Schism]

As the walls continue to close around Trump, the criminal is looking more and more desperate and outlandish with his lies- lies which at this point only the most die hard, true believer cultists could possibly believe anymore.

“ In advance of the release of Bill Barr's memoir of his time in the Trump administration on Tuesday, NBC's Lester Holt sat down with the former attorney general to talk about his time as the nation's top cop.

Ahead of the airing of the interview, former President Donald Trump sent a three-page letter to Holt repeatedly criticizing Barr, while also continuing to push the 2020 election fraud conspiracy.”

Analysis: The 20 most outlandish lines from Donald Trump's letter to Lester Holt

In advance of the release of Bill Barr's memoir of his time in the Trump administration on Tuesday, NBC's Lester Holt sat down with the former attorney general to talk about his time as the nation's top cop.

www.cnn.com

Which walls are closing in, can you tell us or is it a secret?

 

[ataraxia]

Which walls are closing in, can you tell us or is it a secret?

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