‘Obsessed’: Jim Jordan and GOP defend Barr against 'absurd' attacks by Democrats

Republicans plan to mount an all-out defense of Attorney General William Barr against the “absurd” attacks leveled against him when he appears before the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, calling him “the right man” for the job. Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the ranking GOP member on the committee, released a 50-page Republican staff report titled “Examining Democrat Allegations Against Attorney General William Barr” shortly before the top DOJ official was scheduled to appear on Capitol Hill. The report, obtained by the Washington Examiner, provides a lengthy defense of Barr’s actions since taking over the job in early 2019, making the case that Barr has responded properly to the coronavirus pandemic and to the violence in a number of cities nationwide. The tome also hammers President Barack Obama's Justice Department and argues that Democrats are upset that Barr is exposing misdeeds committed during the Trump-Russia investigation. “Attorney General William P. Barr is a serious and experienced leader with a sterling reputation who came into office at the right time to clean up the mess left behind by the highly politicized Obama-Biden Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation,” the Republican report says, adding, “Democrats, led by Chairman Jerrold Nadler, have been obsessed with attacking Attorney General Barr precisely because he is exposing the Obama-Biden abuses.”

Barr appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham to conduct an inquiry into the origins of the Russia investigation. Barr said he expects developments in that investigation, which Democrats have criticized as a political smear job, by the end of the summer. Last month, Nadler claimed that Barr was putting Trump's personal interests above that of the country. “Mr. Barr’s actions make clear that in his Department of Justice, the president’s allies get special treatment, and the president’s enemies — real and imagined — are targeted for extra scrutiny. He is the president’s fixer. He has shown us that there is one set of rules for the president’s friends, and another set of rules for the rest of us," the New York Democrat said. The Republican report retorts: “Democrats have alleged that it is Attorney General Barr who has ‘politicized’ the Justice Department, saying that he is doing the personal bidding of President Trump. This allegation is absurd, especially in comparison to the actions of the Obama-Biden Justice Department.” Jordan noted that Eric Holder, an attorney general under Obama, openly referred to himself as Obama’s “wingman.” “Most notoriously, the Obama-Biden Justice Department weaponized its law-enforcement apparatus against the campaign of Donald Trump,” the Republican report says. “Attorney General Barr has led the effort to expose how the Obama-Biden DOJ and FBI targeted the Trump campaign.”

DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s lengthy December report criticized the DOJ and the FBI for at least 17 “significant errors and omissions” related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against Trump campaign associate Carter Page and for the bureau's reliance on British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s Democrat-funded unverified dossier. Declassified footnotes show the FBI was aware that Steele’s dossier might have been compromised by Russian disinformation, and a newly-public FBI interview revealed Steele’s primary subsource cast doubt on the dossier’s allegations. Jordan notes the host of FBI records recently unearthed in the case against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, which have been deemed exculpatory by Republicans and Flynn’s team and which the DOJ pointed to when moving to dismiss its charges against Flynn. Newly-declassified FBI documents show the counterintelligence briefing the bureau gave Trump during the 2016 campaign was used as a pretext to gather investigative evidence against the Trump campaign and Flynn. “Democrats oppose the Attorney General’s work to expose the Obama-Biden abuses,” the Republican report says. “As Attorney General Barr works to restore integrity to the Justice Department, Democrats continue to play political games.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/obsessed-jim-jordan-and-gop-defend-barr-against-absurd-attacks-by-democrats

EXAMINING DEMOCRAT ALLEGATIONS AGAINST ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM P. BARR

https://republicans-judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020-07-28-Examining-Democrat-Allegations-Against-Attorney-General-William-P-Barr.pdf

This should be a good read. Talking points for memes.

This bitch doesn't have the same healthcare as the average american..HYPOCRITE

Trump reroutes pharmaceutical manufacturing from China to New York Kodak plant

The Trump administration has awarded Kodak a $765 million government loan under the Defense Production Act to help speed the domestic manufacturing of certain medical drugs. A new division, Kodak Pharmaceuticals, is expected to create 350 jobs, senior administration officials said during a call with reporters Tuesday. The move is billed as part of a larger effort to secure a United States supply of critical pharmaceutical ingredients and modernize the Strategic National Stockpile. The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, the agency that engineered the deal, has been working with the Department of Defense to relocate important supply chains out of China for months at the president's direction. Billed as the first of many such deals, Trump officials are calling it a win for President Trump's "America First" doctrine. "It's a big win for the Defense Production Act," said Development Finance Corporation CEO Adam Boehler on the call. "It's a big win for New York. It's a big, big win for blue-collar jobs."

Boehler, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, will travel to Kodak's Rochester, New York, facility, accompanied by White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Director Peter Navarro and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Rear Adm. John Polowczyk, who leads the Supply Chain Stabilization Task Force. Touting the plan, Navarro said that it heralded "literally the industrial renaissance" of New York, notably in the Northwest, "which has been absolutely decimated by foreign competition." At peak production, the company will be able to produce 25% of the active ingredients needed for U.S. pharmaceuticals. "It's unacceptable going forward that American pharmaceuticals — the generic form of pharmaceuticals — are made in China and outside of the United States," Boehler said on the call. "We will be self-reliant, and that will ensure our safety."

Companies such as Bayer, Fuji, and 3M have successfully retooled their chemical and material science know-how into drug-making, and Kodak, Navarro said, was well-established to do likewise. The company has an expansive 12,000-acre facility in northern New York with 50 million square feet of manufacturing, lab, warehouse, and office space, their own on-site power plants, and a wastewater treatment facility that can process 30 million gallons per day. "Back in February, [Trump] pulled me into the office and said, 'Look, we are dangerously dependent on the rest of the world, particularly China, not just for our medical supplies like masks, gloves, medical equipment like ventilators, but also for essential medicines,'" Navarro said, with the president insisting, "'We need to attack this problem from all different sides.'" Navarro praised Development Finance Corporation for the deal, calling it a win for the U.S. "because it's going to get production going" and for taxpayers because of the structure of the 25-year loan, which he said was collateralized with assets and performance contracts. "What we are trying to do now with projects like Kodak is to become an arsenal of medicine," said Navarro, referencing the wartime slogan 'Arsenal of Democracy' that President Franklin Roosevelt used to tout the prowess of U.S. industrial manufacturing during World War II. For Kodak, "this may well be one of the greatest second acts in American industrial history," Navarro said. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo "couldn't have been more happy" when Navarro called him last Friday to relay the news, indicating that the state "would do everything it could to streamline any regulatory barriers" and provide additional assistance.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-reroutes-pharmaceutical-manufacturing-from-china-to-new-york-kodak-plant