William Barr dishes on McConnell’s cowardice, Trump as ‘madman’ in self-serving version of events
First, Barr wants you to know that Sen. Mitch McConnell is a gutless coward. Barr is willing to recount several conversations with McConnell in which McConnell, who in public spent most of the post-election period dodging questions about Trump’s increasingly outrageous and dangerous claims claims, pleaded with Barr to be the one who contradicted Trump by telling the world that Trump’s election “fraud” claims were utter bullshit.
McConnell told Barr in mid-November that Trump’s hoaxes were “damaging” to both the country and to the Republican Party—no guesses on which of those was the more pressing concern, for Mitch—but Republicans “cannot be frontally attacking [Trump] right now,” because Mitch and the others were trying to keep on Trump’s good side for fear an open declaration of Biden’s victory would result in an angry Trump sabotaging Republican election chances in the two Georgia Senate runoff races. Barr was “in a better position to inject some reality” into Trump’s claims of election fraud.
Barr replied, according to Barr, that he was “going to do it at the appropriate time.” So here we have one slightly interesting tidbit, then: Even in Barr’s own accounting, he was urged to combat Trump’s “damaging” election hoaxes and could only muster up an assurance that he would be getting right on that … eventually. After it played out a bit more. In Barr’s account, he was bravely using the Department of Justice to gather evidence of which claims might be true or might be false; in the actual news stories of each day, the claims being peddled by Trump’s minions were brazenly fraudulent to begin with.
The second tidbit is that William Barr is, along with multiple other people inside Trump’s inner circle, perfectly willing to tell Karl that after Barr eventually did publicly nix Trump’s claims Trump became quite bats unhinged, when finally meeting Barr again. Trump had “the eyes and mannerism of a madman,” sez a source, which we can probably take to mean “even more than usual,” and Barr compared him to the madman brigadier general of Dr. Strangelove.
“You must hate Trump. You must hate Trump,” Trump is said to have told Barr, which is a pretty dead-on example of a malignant narcissist in the throes of a decompensating episode. You there, who have asserted that reality is something other than what I have claimed it to be? You must have been plotting against me all along.
Great, super. So again we have a situation in which everyone around Trump was pretty damn certain he had gone off the rails, jumped the trolley, sprung a brain-leak, and had become devoid of marbles but nobody in government, from Secret Service on down, was willing to toss him in a burlap sack, tie it shut, and declare that Mike Pence was taking charge because the sitting president had developed a serious case of bananapants.
The rest is not of note. Barr says Barr acted with integrity, despite everyone else in Trump’s orbit pressuring him to help topple the national government. Barr says Mitch was a spineless weasel who wanted someone else to save the country from potential violence so Mitch wouldn’t have to. Barr says Trump was an unhinged, raging monster but Barr, having Integrity and stuff, was loyally willing to stay and then two weeks later was forced to resign because of the same Integrity after Trump continued to push the same hoaxes and the likely consequences of those acts began to become more and more concrete.
Barr didn’t do the right thing when it counted. He’s a freaking traitor in my book, and no attempts to validate his behavior should be tolerated. And if Ex-45r were re-elected (God save us all and our Country with us!), Barr would be back sucking up in an LA Minute.
Trump aides considered trying to blame Antifa for Capitol riot while it was underway, new book claims
The then-president was convinced that the media was overblowing the riot to try to make him look bad
While insurrectionists attacked police officers and broke windows at the US Capitol in a desperate bid to derail American democracy, former president Donald Trump’s aides were trying to get him to blame the entire event on Antifa, according to a new book.
Journalist Michael Wolff describes the scene in his new book, Landslide, which documents the closing days of the Trump presidency, including the Capitol riot.
According to Mr Wolff’s reporting, published in New York Magazine, Mr Trump was more concerned with continuing his crusade to prove that the election had been stolen from him, and was so single-mindedly focused on his goal that he almost seemed aloof to the severity the insurrection.
“The president, though, was digging in his heels. He remained singularly focused on the electoral challenge and had blinders on to everything else – at least, that was how everybody was rationalizing something close to his total failure, willful or not, to understand what was going on,” Mr Wolff wrote.
The author explained that even among Mr Trump’s inner circle, allies like his daughter Ivanka viewed the riot as more of an “optics issue” than a violent attack on democracy.
Eventually that perspective morphed. By 3pm, about an hour after the first Trump supporters breached the Capitol, the then-president and his allies were trying to put distance between themselves and the attacks.
Ivanka Trump wrote a tweet around 3.15, calling the rioters "American Patriots”, and asking them not to attack law enforcement officers. But even calling them patriots showed some level of support for the insurrectionists, so she deleted the tweet.
I LOVE the video of people LEAVING “Loserpalooza ’21” in Ohio in droves the other day while Agolf Twitler was droning on, and on, and on, spreading the same tired old LIES, and B.S. !!
Hey, those of us to the left of J. Strom Thurmond are uneasily awaiting the imminent coup d’etat when the entire US military revolts against the Bolshevist usurper and rightfully re-enthrones His Perpetual Corpulence. The people of Montana will this.
A very apt description…………..two slavering, snarling, opportunists arguing over who knew what and when, before being asked in for an interview with prosecutors. Well drawn Jeff.
Mitch could care less about the country. He is all about political power and his own self interest. He counts on the ignorance of his supporters and they come through for him every time.
rionmorrison69 almost 3 years ago
There’s a great meme out there that basically says the same thing about Germany and Hitler.
kentmarx36 almost 3 years ago
If you knew Donald Dimwit, you must still know Dimwit. Otherwise, why are you scared out of your odorized black and white suit by him?
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
William Barr dishes on McConnell’s cowardice, Trump as ‘madman’ in self-serving version of events
First, Barr wants you to know that Sen. Mitch McConnell is a gutless coward. Barr is willing to recount several conversations with McConnell in which McConnell, who in public spent most of the post-election period dodging questions about Trump’s increasingly outrageous and dangerous claims claims, pleaded with Barr to be the one who contradicted Trump by telling the world that Trump’s election “fraud” claims were utter bullshit.
McConnell told Barr in mid-November that Trump’s hoaxes were “damaging” to both the country and to the Republican Party—no guesses on which of those was the more pressing concern, for Mitch—but Republicans “cannot be frontally attacking [Trump] right now,” because Mitch and the others were trying to keep on Trump’s good side for fear an open declaration of Biden’s victory would result in an angry Trump sabotaging Republican election chances in the two Georgia Senate runoff races. Barr was “in a better position to inject some reality” into Trump’s claims of election fraud.
Barr replied, according to Barr, that he was “going to do it at the appropriate time.” So here we have one slightly interesting tidbit, then: Even in Barr’s own accounting, he was urged to combat Trump’s “damaging” election hoaxes and could only muster up an assurance that he would be getting right on that … eventually. After it played out a bit more. In Barr’s account, he was bravely using the Department of Justice to gather evidence of which claims might be true or might be false; in the actual news stories of each day, the claims being peddled by Trump’s minions were brazenly fraudulent to begin with.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/27/2037324/-William-Barr-says-William-Barr-did-all-the-right-things-before-Trump-launched-an-insurrection
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
The second tidbit is that William Barr is, along with multiple other people inside Trump’s inner circle, perfectly willing to tell Karl that after Barr eventually did publicly nix Trump’s claims Trump became quite bats unhinged, when finally meeting Barr again. Trump had “the eyes and mannerism of a madman,” sez a source, which we can probably take to mean “even more than usual,” and Barr compared him to the madman brigadier general of Dr. Strangelove.
“You must hate Trump. You must hate Trump,” Trump is said to have told Barr, which is a pretty dead-on example of a malignant narcissist in the throes of a decompensating episode. You there, who have asserted that reality is something other than what I have claimed it to be? You must have been plotting against me all along.
Great, super. So again we have a situation in which everyone around Trump was pretty damn certain he had gone off the rails, jumped the trolley, sprung a brain-leak, and had become devoid of marbles but nobody in government, from Secret Service on down, was willing to toss him in a burlap sack, tie it shut, and declare that Mike Pence was taking charge because the sitting president had developed a serious case of bananapants.
The rest is not of note. Barr says Barr acted with integrity, despite everyone else in Trump’s orbit pressuring him to help topple the national government. Barr says Mitch was a spineless weasel who wanted someone else to save the country from potential violence so Mitch wouldn’t have to. Barr says Trump was an unhinged, raging monster but Barr, having Integrity and stuff, was loyally willing to stay and then two weeks later was forced to resign because of the same Integrity after Trump continued to push the same hoaxes and the likely consequences of those acts began to become more and more concrete.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/27/2037324/-William-Barr-says-William-Barr-did-all-the-right-things-before-Trump-launched-an-insurrection
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
DC investigators seek Weisselberg testimony as they compile case against Trump kids for ‘self-dealing’
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-kids-inauguration/
Kurtass Premium Member almost 3 years ago
The so-called congressman from my district is going to the border with trump. The moron thinks trump is still president.
ferddo almost 3 years ago
Soon that elephant will begin denying that he really ever supported Trump, or even know him…
casonia2 almost 3 years ago
Barr didn’t do the right thing when it counted. He’s a freaking traitor in my book, and no attempts to validate his behavior should be tolerated. And if Ex-45r were re-elected (God save us all and our Country with us!), Barr would be back sucking up in an LA Minute.
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Ivanka Trump called Capitol riot an ‘optics issue’ as it happened while Giuliani drank ‘heavily’: new Michael Wolff book
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-insurrection-2653575486/
Ivanka Trump may have lied under oath during inauguration probe
https://www.rawstory.com/ivanka-trump-inauguration/
Alarming survey finds American conservatives ‘uniquely inclined’ toward authoritarianism
https://www.rawstory.com/right-wing-authoritarianism-2653576332/
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Trump aides considered trying to blame Antifa for Capitol riot while it was underway, new book claims
The then-president was convinced that the media was overblowing the riot to try to make him look bad
While insurrectionists attacked police officers and broke windows at the US Capitol in a desperate bid to derail American democracy, former president Donald Trump’s aides were trying to get him to blame the entire event on Antifa, according to a new book.
Journalist Michael Wolff describes the scene in his new book, Landslide, which documents the closing days of the Trump presidency, including the Capitol riot.
According to Mr Wolff’s reporting, published in New York Magazine, Mr Trump was more concerned with continuing his crusade to prove that the election had been stolen from him, and was so single-mindedly focused on his goal that he almost seemed aloof to the severity the insurrection.
“The president, though, was digging in his heels. He remained singularly focused on the electoral challenge and had blinders on to everything else – at least, that was how everybody was rationalizing something close to his total failure, willful or not, to understand what was going on,” Mr Wolff wrote.
The author explained that even among Mr Trump’s inner circle, allies like his daughter Ivanka viewed the riot as more of an “optics issue” than a violent attack on democracy.
Eventually that perspective morphed. By 3pm, about an hour after the first Trump supporters breached the Capitol, the then-president and his allies were trying to put distance between themselves and the attacks.
Ivanka Trump wrote a tweet around 3.15, calling the rioters "American Patriots”, and asking them not to attack law enforcement officers. But even calling them patriots showed some level of support for the insurrectionists, so she deleted the tweet.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-antifa-capitol-riot-landslide-book-b1874128.html
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Clutching forks and knives, to eat their bacon…
The Love of Money is . . . almost 3 years ago
Shouldn’t they be shown eating “crow” ?
nyg16 almost 3 years ago
we can only hope but cults die hard.
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
’She’s gonna go through some things’: Critics pile on Ivanka Trump as new accusations of perjury emerge
https://www.rawstory.com/ivanka-trump-perjury/
White House staffers sought second-floor offices because Trump hated climbing stairs
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-white-house-2653577726/
Rudy Giuliani claims law license was suspended to ‘shut me up’ because Trump is on verge of winning
https://www.rawstory.com/rudy-giuliani-steve-bannon/
Stonewall was a riot. The Capitol assault was a terrorist attack
https://www.rawstory.com/stonewall-was-a-riot-the-capitol-assault-was-a-terrorist-attack/
Masterskrain Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I LOVE the video of people LEAVING “Loserpalooza ’21” in Ohio in droves the other day while Agolf Twitler was droning on, and on, and on, spreading the same tired old LIES, and B.S. !!
https://twitter.com/waltermasterson/status/1409169346895745036
Godfreydaniel almost 3 years ago
I see the dishonest imbecile Montana Swill is at it again………..He/she/it keeps getting more and more pathetic. Are we positive that isn’t Ivanka?
Vidrinath Premium Member almost 3 years ago
They are cultists. They aren’t giving up. Evil will not willingly surrender.
Michael G. almost 3 years ago
Hey, those of us to the left of J. Strom Thurmond are uneasily awaiting the imminent coup d’etat when the entire US military revolts against the Bolshevist usurper and rightfully re-enthrones His Perpetual Corpulence. The people of Montana will this.
moosemin almost 3 years ago
They are all still eating the same gruel.
grumpypophobart almost 3 years ago
A very apt description…………..two slavering, snarling, opportunists arguing over who knew what and when, before being asked in for an interview with prosecutors. Well drawn Jeff.
CW Stevenson almost 3 years ago
Mitch could care less about the country. He is all about political power and his own self interest. He counts on the ignorance of his supporters and they come through for him every time.
piper_gilbert almost 3 years ago
Sorry to say, but it will really come down to the media coverage of DJT. The media put him in the White House in 2016. We’ll see.
buckman-j almost 3 years ago
Well Montana Bill can now blame the heat for his delusionary rants. Over 100 degrees? What climate change?