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William Barr

Saturday 20th of April 2024

2020 Presidential election I was somewhat demoralized because I thought, boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has, you know, lost contact with — detached from reality. … There was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were. William Barr, testimony presented to the Select Committee to Investigate the Attack on the United States Capitol concerning Trump's professed belief in allegations of widespread voter fraud and vote flipping by machines from Dominion Voting Systems, which Barr called “bullshit”  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Asslickers Bill Barr is so far up Trump's ass, he bumped into Hannity. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, May 3, 2019, © 2019 Kwiple.com
Baby killers This week we found out that Robert Mueller wrote more than one letter to the Attorney General – wink, wink – William Barr, saying, Why did you mischaracterize what I wrote? And Barr responded, Well, the report was “my baby.” I thought the Republicans were against killing babies. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, May 3, 2019, © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I don't even know what he tweets. William Barr, Trump's lapdog Attorney General © 2020 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I'm not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody. William Barr, Trump's lapdog Attorney General © 2020 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say In the United States of America we do not prosecute people based on politics and we don't cut them a break based on politics either. William Barr, Trump's fixer, who interfered in Michael Flynn's case, Roger Stone's case, Rudy Guiliani's case, the Mueller investigation, etc. © 2020 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say The Attorney General must insure that the administration of justice – the enforcement of the law – is above and away from politics. William Barr, during his confirmation hearings to become Attorney General © 2020 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary barr (bär), v., barred, barring To pander to presidential power. © 2019 Kwiple.com
Liars say It was a complete and total exoneration. Donald Trump, commenting on William Barr's letter quoting special counsel Mueller's findings about possible obstruction of justice: “while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Lies When the attorney general lies to Congress, it is a crime. When the president does it, it is the state of the union. Stephen Colbert, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, 5/2/2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Presidency Constitutionally, it is wrong to conceive of the President as simply the highest officer within the Executive branch hierarchy. He alone is the Executive branch. William Barr, apologist for unlimited presidential power © 2020 Kwiple.com
Selfie He became a different man when the Democrats viciously stated that they wanted to impeach him. They went wild. We want to impeach him. We're gonna impeach Bill Barr. We're gonna impeach him. He became different. I understand that. I didn't become different. I got impeached twice. I didn't change. I became worse. I became worse.  Donald Trump, July 11, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It's not that they like him, or care if he goes to jail. They are getting so much power out of this and they don't want it to stop. William Barr, Mike Pompeo and Mitch McConnell portrayed by Mary Trump, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Barr and Trump are pursuing very different projects – the one a crusade to align government with his idea of religious authority, the other a venal quest for self-aggrandizement. But they serve each other's purpose by collaborating to destroy the independence of anything – federal agencies, the public servants who work in them, even the other branches of government – that could restrain the president. William Barr and Donald Trump portrayed by George Packer, The Atlantic, April 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest I am confident that the Attorney General will work with the IC [intelligence community] in accordance with the long-established standards to protect highly-sensitive classified information that, if publicly released, would put our national security at risk. Dan Coats, Director of National Intelligence, commenting on Trump's direction to Attorney General William Barr to declassify and divulge anything related to the origins of the Russia probe that might suggest it was an attempted coup to overthrow a duly elected president © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say [T]he evidence developed during the special counsel?s investigation is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction-of-justice offense. William “Whitewash Willie” Barr, Trump's self-proclaimed Exonerator General  and Republican-proclaimed Attorney General, superseding Congress's authority to decide the issue left unresolved by special counsel Mueller's investigation © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I think spying did occur. Yes, I think spying did occur. William “Whitewash Willie” Barr, Trump's self-proclaimed Exonerator General, legitimizing conspiracy theories propular with Trumpists that his 2016 campaign was subjected to unlawful surveillance by the FBI and intelligence agencies as part of their investigation into Russian meddling in the election © 2019 Kwiple.com
 
Wannabe autocrats The president, Barr argued, has “complete authority to start or stop” investigations and can “give direction” on individual cases, including those that touch on his political or financial interests. “The Constitution itself places no limit on the president's authority to act on matters which concern him or his own conduct,” Barr wrote. Law enforcement, he argued, was a power exclusively held by the president, because “he alone is the executive branch.” Mattathias Schwarta, New York Times Magazine, June 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com