Why is Barr holding a news conference tomorrow?

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  1. Sandy Shanks

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    We were provided another example today of the screwed up Trump administration. According to The Hill, President Trump announced Wednesday that Barr would be holding a press conference and that he also might hold his own conference. Strange, this came from the President, not the Department of Justice.

    It gets even stranger. Attorney General William Barr will hold a press conference Thursday morning on the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report before or soon after the Mueller Report is released. He will take questions, the DOJ got around to saying.

    It’s not clear if the press conference will come before or after the release of the final 400-page report and its color-coded redactions.

    How in the world can reporters ask intelligent questions about the Mueller Report without seeing its contents? Now that his strange. It is also pure Trump.

    There are also questions about Barr;s objectiveness based upon his findings late last month. Barr and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, determined that Trump did not illegally obstruct justice and said the special counsel found no conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia’s 2016 election interference. Also, Barr told lawmakers that FBI officials were “spying” on the Trump campaign. Now that is strange. Again, pure Trump.

    On another front, members of Congress will be able to see the Mueller Report "without certain redactions" after its public release, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. The disclosure of a version of the report without "certain redactions" came in a filing late Wednesday in the Roger Stone prosecution.

    Again, the Trump administration is being coy with the English language. Unveil two sentences from the redacted version and you get the report "without certain redactions." What exactly does "without certain redactions" mean other than allowing as many redactions as Barr desires?

    Barr refuses to give our representatives in Congress an unredacted version of the Mueller Report. There is very little doubt that Barr is trying to protect Trump from the report. He wants to put his spin on the report before Americans see it.

    It won't work.
     
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    Spooky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    He can't give them an unredacted version, that would be illegal.

    Much of the testimony in that report was done under granted confidentiality from Mueller.

    Exposing it would be a crime.

    This isn't rocket science here.

    But you have both Mueller and Barr saying there is nothing in there connecting Trump to anything so what more do you want?

    We have been asking you guys if you would accept Mueller's findings and down to a tee you all said yes, but now none of you are.

    Typical liberals.
     
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    jack4freedom Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Barr got pretty weasely when he was asked if he forwarded a copy of the report to Trump’s legal team. He refused to answer. I would find it highly suspect if he did and refuses to release an unredacted copy to the US Congress if he did indeed give it to Trumps team. Also, it is not only liberals who expect to see the results of this investigation released to the congress and the public. Only those who are trying to hide from what has been discovered will defend any action which clouds the issue.
     
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    Once again, it would be illegal for him to give an unredacted version to Trumps legal team.

    Barr is a by the books kind of guy, he is not going to risk prison time for Trump.

    And Trumps legal team does not need to see the details because nobody else will so it would never come up in a court of law.

    Barr, Mueller and his team, and the witness are the only one's that will know what was said.

    That testimony probably contains a high amount of information that Mueller used to get all his other convictions which would then be in jeopardy if it was exposed.

    It would be beyond a legal mess.

    This is Barr's job.
     
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    From The Hill

    Barr to hold Thursday press conference on Mueller report

    "Attorney General William Barr will hold a press conference Thursday morning on the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday."
    https://thehill.com/policy/national...conference-on-release-of-mueller-report-early

    What we have here is another faux issue.
     
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    Golem Well-Known Member Donor

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    Trump is not the AG of the United States. He was hired to be Trump's personal lawyer at taxpayer's expense.

    It's beyond detestable!
     
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    Because he wants to make sure that you understand how innocent Trump, happens to be and to secure in your mind for all time that there was no collusion with Russians to tweak the 2016 Presidential election. Why else, would the nation's Top Cop be holding a pathology conference tomorrow.

    It does not get more pathological than this administration.
     
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    Or, Barr, is going to raise the bar on ethics tomorrow. Take your pick. A pathology conference or raising the bar on ethics. My money is on the former not the latter.
     
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    You made this up. Where did you get it? The Trump website? You are suggesting Congress wishes to break the law? :roflol:

    Have you seen the Mueller Report? If so, that would be a first. No one has seen the report. So, how do you know what is in it?

    The short answer is, you don't.
     
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    Why don't you wait and see? Then you can start complaining that nobody understands you.
     
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    Um Mueller already said there was no collusion.

    lol at you guys getting upset over a press conference.
     
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    Barr has indicated he intends to redact four categories of information from the report: grand jury evidence, classified information, evidence related to ongoing investigations and information that could be embarrassing to "peripheral third parties."

    It's against the law to release grand jury evidence or classified information to the public without a court order.
     
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    Anyone should know by now there is a coverup afoot.
     
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    "WASHINGTON — Not all of Robert S. Mueller III’s findings will be news to President Trump when they are released Thursday.

    "Justice Department officials have had numerous conversations with White House lawyers about the conclusions made by Mr. Mueller, the special counsel, in recent days, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. The talks have aided the president’s legal team as it prepares a rebuttal to the report and strategizes for the coming public war over its findings."

    The Times.
     
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    Nobody is asking him to release it to the public. They're asking him to release it to the Judiciary Committee.
     
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    I would guess that all people outside of the Hate Trump bubble understand those inside it will never accept anything short of removal from office for the President.

    The training and indoctrination is that complete.

    Why anyone will give them the time of day after the report is released is beyond me. Their reaction has already been written for them.
     
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    That's right.
     
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    That is still the public without a court order.

    Anyone who sees it outside of Mueller who obtained it, the person who said it, or Barr who's job it is to determine it's value, is the public.

    The only exception to this would be a judge to determine it's viability in a lawsuit which is currently being filed.
     
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    In the ongoing Democrat spin machine, transparency is now a bad thing. Won't the media want to ask him what did share with the White House regarding the Mueller exoneration report?
     
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    So you agree that Trump is not an exception.
     
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    Yes, the DOJ confirmed Trump's announcement.

    A hard-copy of special counsel Robert Mueller's redacted report will be made available to members of Congress after 11 a.m. Thursday, but only after a press conference by the attorney general — timing that has infuriated members of Congress.

    That means the document will be handed over to lawmakers on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees 90 minutes after a press conference by Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein about the contents of the 300-plus page report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign.

    This cheap trick will be seen for what it is -- a cheap, infantile trick that can only be seen as the product of the Trump White House. These cheap theatrics will cost Trump. Hard to believe even he would do something so childish and transparent.
     
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    Absolutely.

    If Barr gave that information to Trump he should be sent to prison and Trump impeached for taking it.
     
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    Ok. Thanks
     
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    Exactly. MSM and some members of congress want Barr to break the law.

    You can't get grand jury proceedings from Brewster County, TX, one of the most sparsely populated counties in the USA, without breaking the law.
     
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    Barr, said that. Mueller, said this President could not be exonerated. If you can't be exonerated then you can be found having committed impeachable offenses. Criminal charges and indictments are differential from impeachable offenses. If Clinton, can be impeached for inserting a Cuban where it did not belong, then Trump, can be impeached for having surrogates in contact with Russian agents on matters of election polling data, et al.

    If you forced me to make a decision between selecting which of the two acts I would prefer, I would tell you to pass the Cubans and the Jose Cuervo, cause there's gonna be a party up in here tonight. Getting in bed with Putin, in any way shape or form having to do with our elections cannot ever be tolerated to any degree, whatsoever. Anyone who does that deserved to be investigated at minimum and if connections of any kind are found in that regard, censure needs to take place at absolute minimum.

    Trump's own son knew full well what the meetings were about. He knew it was about Russian involvement in the elections. He knew it was about information that Russians would want to use to upset the election process. He knew that - yet he met anyway and he did so eagerly.
     
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