Anonymous ID: ac83b8 Oct. 7, 2022, 11:04 a.m. No.17660856   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0967

Republicans still can’t shake their Hillary Clinton obsession

Five years ago, Hillary Clinton joked about Republicans, “It appears they don’t know I’m not president.” It's vastly worse now.

June 2, 2022, 1:05 PM EDT

 

By Steve Benen

 

In theory, former Attorney General Bill Barr finds himself in a difficult position. The Republican tapped special counsel John Durham to investigate the investigation into the Russia scandal, and the entire three-year effort is proving to be a fiasco. Durham’s failed and misguided prosecution of Michael Sussmann this week was the latest embarrassment, but it doesn’t stand alone.

 

It was against this backdrop that Barr turned to Fox News last night to brag about how “very proud” he is of the prosecutor’s work. The former attorney general added:

 

“While he did not succeed in getting a conviction from the D.C. jury, I think he accomplished something far more important…. I think he crystallized the central role played by the Hillary campaign in launching as a dirty trick the whole Russiagate collusion narrative and fanning the flames of it.”

 

In all likelihood, Barr knows better. Donald Trump’s Russia scandal wasn’t just some “narrative,” launched as a “dirty trick”; it was a genuine scandal about a Republican presidential candidate whose political operation sought, embraced, capitalized on, and lied about assistance from a foreign adversary — and then took steps to obstruct the investigation into the foreign interference.

 

What’s more, as the former attorney general also probably knows, Hillary Clinton and her campaign didn’t “launch” the scandal; federal law enforcement began scrutinizing the controversy on its own based on ample evidence.

 

But putting these relevant details aside, Barr’s on-air rhetoric last night was jarring for a reason: The Republican effectively made the case that Durham’s pointless prosecution doesn’t matter because the politicized special counsel investigation contributed to a partisan smear of Hillary Clinton.

 

Sure, federal prosecutors obtaining convictions is nice, but for Barr, fueling anti-Clinton theories is “far more important.”

 

>https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-still-cant-shake-hillary-clinton-obsession-rcna31670

Anonymous ID: ac83b8 Oct. 7, 2022, 11:05 a.m. No.17660871   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1068

Dallas man broke into museum, damaged art worth millions because he was ‘mad at his girl,’ police say

 

A 21-year-old man was arrested Wednesday evening after allegedly breaking into the Dallas Museum of Art and damaging pieces worth upwards of $5 million.

 

Brian Hernandez broke into the museum shortly before 10 p.m. and began a destructive rampage, according to police. He allegedly broke into a display case and smashed a 6th century B.C. Greek amphora and a Greek pot dating to 450 B.C. and worth about $5 million.

Brian Hernandez is charged with criminal mischief and faces five years to life in prison.

 

Brian Hernandez is charged with criminal mischief and faces five years to life in prison. (Dallas Police Department)

 

Also smashed were a bowl from 6th century B.C., worth about $100,000, and a ceramic Caddo effigy bottle valued at about $10,000.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/dallas-museum-man-damaged-art-worth-millions

Anonymous ID: ac83b8 Oct. 7, 2022, 11:06 a.m. No.17660942   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>17660846

Are you fucking kidding me, we are and they are just getting started. No one is exhausted about Trump, it's Bidan/Obama destruction of this country.Shut to fuck up, this is the second day you've been making this idiotic argument. If you are too exhausted, leave and don't come back until you head is on right!