Go Nadler! The look on Barr’s face as he is called out for his Roy Cohn-ing for ⁦ @realDonaldTrump⁩ says it all. Shame. #RemoveBarr
Damn. Already time to mute as #GymJordan takes the mic. I don't know about y'all, but I don't trust a guy who looks the other way when his students are being sexually abused. #BarrHearing
Barr is so unconvincing. He had nothing to prove to come out of almost retirement? Feigned concern for black Americans, efforts by some to 'demonize the police', using Floyd's death as an excuse for 'stepping up and bolstering activity of anti crime tasks forces'? #BarrHearing
Here we go about the 'anarchists' hijacking protests. #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow
Nadler: "Americans are very suspicious of your motive here,"
asks Barr if he did this to assist Trump's reelection campaign.
Barr blathers on and blames covid for interrupting law enforcement activities. #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow
Asks Barr if he discussed Trump's reelection, Barr gets testy and says he's a member of the cabinet during an election year. Nadler asks if he discussed the deploying of federal law enforcement in conjunction w his discussions about Trump reelection. Testy Barr stutters, blathers
Nadler says Barr is projecting fear nationwide, says shame on you. #GymJordan tries to interject. #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow
Barr tries to make excuses for use of fed force in Portland, says "we are on the defense, we're not looking for trouble," blames the state and the city. Mike Johnson starts by kissing Barr's ass and thanking him for impartiality. Howl. Barr talks about 'restoring the rule of law'
Barr asks what enemies of the president has he indicted? Says "You say I help the president's friends." Says Stone and Flynn cases "some intervention was necessary to rectify the rule of law.' Says Stone should go to jail. Says the 'lying prosecutors' were treating Stone harshly'
Johnson spews lies about Obama spying on Trump, blah blah blah, impeachment scam, blah. Goes in on Eric Holder calling himself Prez Obama's wingman. Is it the duty of the AG to be the president's wingman? Barr lies and says no. He acts independently of the prez. #BarrHearing
Zoe Lofgren says it's clear that the president's playbook is to divert attention from his catastrophic failure in handling covid. #BarrHearings #RemoveBarrNow
Lofgren talking about the Wall of Mothers being teargassed, pepper sprayed. Asks Barr: Has your department started any investigations about executive order that asks for deployment of troops protecting fed monuments? Barr says yes, we've made arrests. #BarrHearing #removeBarrNow
Lofrgren asks Barr about surveillance tools. Barr says most cyber activities are done by FBI. Lofgren: I think American public should know about your surveillance techniques. Privacy of all Americans being violated by president. #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow
Barr talking to GOP Steve Chabot about US Marshals protecting fed courthouses in Portland. Says they are defending the courthouse. Chabot says they were trying to burn the courthouse down, says people were in danger. Barr agrees, of course, trying to justify, talks about medieval
slingshots used by protesters, lasers, blah, blah. Chabot throws blame on Mayors, local government. Barr agrees. #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow
Semantics discussion on whether these feds are 'storm troopers.' FFS. Barr says they're special ops, tactical teams. #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow
Barr bloviates on how he is protecting federal buildings. Yawn. Sheila Jackson Lee takes over, starts by quoting John Lewis, says he seems to have a difficult time understanding systemic racism. Asks Barr if he knows about The Talk black mothers have with their sons.
Barr says, "I think I do." Jackson Lee asks Barr if Trump admin attempts to end systemic racism. Do you understand violent impact of racial profiling? Brings up Brianna Taylor, George Floyd. Talks about police use of force against black men. Says if you understand, why has your
office only pursued one case against systemic racism? Barr tries to say his DOJ is strong. Jackson Le e says his focus was to let out Stone, Manafort more than pursue cases like Taylor's, Rashard Brooks, Floyd etc. #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow
Gohmert's up. Asks Barr if he's ever seen such violence against peaceful protests. Barr talks about 'instigators' looking to endanger police. Gohmert goes back to Trump's fake China travel ban and calls it an allegation that this admin is spreading covid. Asks if feds should shut
down protests to 'satisfy our colleagues' to prove you're doing more to stop 'the spread of covid.' Talks about Bolsheviks, Chairman Mao, communism, Marxism. Demented. Going to pee now. #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow
Oh good. Back for @RepCohen, talking about the 'world watching in horror' as they used force to clear Lafayette Park for a photo op at St. John's Church. Calls it an affront to the Constitution and American people. Asks when Barr learned about these plans. Barr said sometime in
afternoon, later in afternoon. Cohen lights into Barr, talks about violation of 1stA freedom of assembly, 4thA illegal search & seizure. Cohen: maybe your secret police were poorly trained. Goes in on Epstein, who was able to 'conveniently able to commit suicide.' Amazing!
@TedDeutch takes the mic, questioning Barr about Roger Stone's sentencing and about the firing of US Attorney Geoffrey Berman. Deutch goes after Barr, says Stone threatened the life of a witness. Points out Barr's spesh treatment for Stone bc he's a friend of the prez.
Turd Reich toady Martha Roby takes over. Going to make lunch for my son. #BRB #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow
Karen Bass asks Barr about George Floyd's death, the white guy who shot people in the theater in Aurora, Co, Dylan Roof, who killed people in church. Says the white murderers were treated better than Floyd, who was arrested for using a counterfeit $20. Asks Barr about chokeholds.
Barr says coming up with criteria on limitations of use of force, including chokeholds. Bass asks about registry of LEO, saying Tamir Rice would have been alive today if they had known the police chief was fired. Barr says it's in POTUS execu order. #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow
Ooof, it's Matt Gaetz time. Talks about Andrew McCabe, talks about discrediting president, says Stone isn't killing anyone, isn't burning down buildings. Wants to focus on 'most acute need country has'--wait for it--ANTIFA. Asks Barr about antifa being terrorist org. #RemoveBarr
Barr says Antifa isn't a myth, it can be best thought of as an umbrella term for a movement loosely organized around the country." Gaetz asks if ANTIFA is a terrorist org, forgetting about the white supremacist Holocaust denier he brought as his date to the State of the Union.
Shouldn't Matt Gaetz be home feeding and home schooling his son right now? #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow #MattGaetzIsaTool
Cedric Richmond chastises Barr for not hiring black people, says keep John Lewis out of the DOJ motto. Asks Barr if Russia is attempting to interfere in 2020 prez election. Barr says, "I think we have to assume that they are." Asks if sitting prez can move election date. Says
hasn't looked into it, has no reason to think election will be rigged. Asks if mail in voting will lead to voter fraud. Barr says yes. Says voted by mail once. Richmond presses him on voter fraud. Barr blathers. Johnson asks if Barr is aware that African Americans
are at greater risk of dying of covid. Barr says yes . Asks if their ability to vote by mail will lead to fraud. Barr says if you have wholesale mail in voting, it increases risk of fraud. Asks if a prez can protest if he loses an election? Can he contest? Barr cites Bush v. Gore
Then says no, can't contest an election, "Not that I'm aware of." Richmond cites percentages of police deaths of African Americans v white. "According to your numbers," Richmond emphasizes. Barr says police are more likely to shoot white people. WTF? #RemoveBarrNow #BarrHearing
Nadler yells at @GOP Jordan, Biggs and Johnson for violating safety of the committee by refusing to wear their masks #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow #TrumpVirus #WearADamnMask
Gym Jordan screaming about the edited video he aired showing burning buildings and him looking the other way while college wrestlers were being sexually abused--oh, wait, never mind. Thank you mute button. #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow
Hakeem Jeffries says Barr has consistently undermined democracy, the Constitution and the well being of the American people all to defend Donald Trump. What will you do if Trump loses on Nov 3 but refuses to leave office on Jan 20? Barr says if results are clear, I would leave.
You praised Trump's coronavirus response. Barr: who did? Jeffries: you did. Barr: ok. Jeffries talks about 150,000 deaths, record unemployment, etc. Barr says I disagree. Jeffries: says Trump takes no responsibility, was that superb? Barr blames Obama! OMG! #RemoveBarrNow
Jeffries asks if Trump's suggesting of injecting bleach was superb,asks if lack of PPE was superb.Barr bloviates. Jeffries: the answer is 'no, it was not superb.' Jeffries asks about Trump's refusal to wear masks.Barr says which guidance,the earlier one that said masks dont work?
Barr continues to lie for Trump> It's remarkable. Thank you @RepJeffries for proving this so adeptly. #RemoveBarrNow #BarrHearing
GOP ghoul Biggs on Lafayette square: leading up to it, you had violent mobbs, blah blah. Barr; very violent rioters. park police, officers injured. Secret Service recommended Trump go down to the 'shelter' aka BUNKER BITCH. Barr tries and fails to portray a pic of violent chaos
@RepSwalwell presses Barr on swapping pardon to silence a witness, which he said was a crime. Swalwell: Stone bragged that he lied to save Trump's butt. You would agree that it is a fed crime to lie under oath right? Barr: yes. Barr says he doesn't read Trump's tweets. Swalwell
says he should start reading them because there's a lot of evidence in Trump's tweets including the one in which Trump tweeted that Roger Stone 'had guts.' Swalwell pushes Barr on Stone statements. Barr says no. Swalwell, how can you tell us 'why should I investigate POTUS if
you're not even aware of the facts concerning the POTUS using pardon and commutation power to swap the silence of a witness? Barr bumbles that answer too. Well done, Rep. Swalwell. #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow
@GOP ghoul Tom McClintock now on, saying Flynn's confession was extorted. Barr fumbles response, says he defended actions of prosecutors in court. Babbles on proof beyond reasonable doubt, blah blah. #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow
McClintock back to the protests: Calling these mostly peaceful protests is like calling Scott Peterson a mostly faithful husband, calling Al Capone a mostly law abiding businessman. Where does the right to peacefully assemble stop? Barr: when it becomes violent. #BarrHearing
@RepTedLieu Zooms in, asking about legal standard for seizing and arresting protesters, citing 4th Amendment that requires probable cause. Lieu: probable cause is particularized to a specific protester. There's no such thing as probable cause by mere association, asking Barr if
there's no prob cause you can't arrest a protester. Barr says no. Lieu: under the law, in effect for 40 years, what feds did in Portland was unconstitutional. That's what police states, authoritarians do. Was illegal, bc no probable cause. Klein admitted it on nat'l tv. Barr:
Obviously I don't know all the particulars of any individual case. When they (the Feds) tried to effectuate arrests of ringleaders, they were swarmed by people in black and couldn't effectuate the rest. Barr bloviates more bullshit about lasers and probable cause. #BarrHearing
GOP ghoul Lesko saying Americans are scared of rioting, looting, and of course, she goes straight to Antifa. As predictable as Trump's twitter meltdowns. Yawn. #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow
Lesko pledges loyalty to Barr and Trump. Recess. #RemoveBarrNow #BarrHearing
@RepCicilline going after Barr on Russia. "Is it ever appropriate for the prez or prez candidate to accept or solicit foreign assistance of any kind in elections." Blundering Barr: No. "Sorry you had to struggle w that one, Mr. AG." Now on to peaceful protests. Barr: I haven't
condemned peaceful protests. Cicilline: Is it ok for officers to use force against peaceful protesters? Barr: not peaceful protesters. Cicilline talks about elected officials being teargassed. Do you think it's ever appropriate to use tear gas against peaceful protesters? Barr
stutters again, blathers on and says sometimes peaceful protesters are affected. Cicilline shows video of a navy vet being beaten and teargassed by officers. Barr: I didn't see him gassed, there seems to have been gas in the area. Barr has an excuse for everything. No wonder
he is Trump's Roy Cohn. Cicilline asks if peaceful protesters should expect to be beaten, pepper sprayed or have their bones broken by feds? Barr throws another excuse out. Cicilline says he is doing this to further Trump's political agenda as his 'personal bully.' #RemoveBarrNow
'One of America's most beloved & effective protesters, John Lewis, lies in state a thousand feet from here in a deserved place of honor and sir, your failure to respect the role of peaceful protest in this country is a disgrace, it's un-American, and it's important to remember
what these protests are about-- #BlackLivesMatter , the abuse at the hands of police by black Americans." Shows video of peaceful protesters. Amazing, @RepCicilline! #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow
#GymJordan complaining Barr can't reply. Now on to Turd Reich henchman, Florida man, Greg Steube who yields his time to Gym. Mute. #BarrHearing #RemoveBarrNow
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