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> Skullduggery
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noun: skullduggery
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>>21829430 skullduggery 2018
Trump first wanted his attorney general pick William Barr for another job: Defense lawyer
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-first-wanted-g-pick-bill-barr-another-job-defense-lawyer-231509009.html
Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman -
Sat, December 8,
2018
In late spring 2017, President Trump was having a hard time finding a topflight lawyer to spearhead his defense in the sprawling Russian investigation conducted by the new special counsel Robert Mueller. Some of the most prominent litigators in Washington had turned aside overtures to represent the president in the case, expressing concerns that he would not listen to their advice anyway.
Around that time, sources tell Yahoo News, White House officials reached out to a man they thought would be an ideal candidate: William P. Barr, the attorney general under President George H.W. Bush. An outspoken conservative, Barr had gotten on Trump’s radar screen that spring after he had written a newspaper op-ed vigorously defending the president’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey. At one point, Barr was ushered into a brief White House meeting with Trump, who asked him if he was interested in the job, according to a source who was present for the meeting. Barr demurred. He had other obligations, he said. He would have to think about it.
The talk among Trump and his top advisers about hiring Barr as chief defense lawyer did not stop there. It arose again this year after the departure of John Dowd, Trump’s lead lawyer for the special counsel investigation, and continued until the summer, when the president found another candidate far more eager for the job: Rudy Giuliani. But now in a twist few could have anticipated, Trump has tapped Barr for an even more important position: attorney general, a post that, if he is confirmed, would put him in charge of the Mueller investigation.
The decision to nominate Barr has won applause by many of his former colleagues, who praise him as a savvy Washington veteran with expansive, hard-edged views about executive power, but who at the same time is steeped in the culture of the Justice Department and its tradition of fiercely resisting improper influences on pending prosecutions.
But Barr’s nomination has also raised potentially thorny political questions about how independent he would be in overseeing the Russia probe and whether his previously expressed views defending the president — and criticizing some aspects of the Mueller investigation — could potentially compromise his leadership.
Timothy Flanigan, who served under Barr as assistant attorney general in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel, told the Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast Saturday that those concerns are misplaced. Barr, he said, was “blunt” and “direct,” and would have no problem standing up to Trump — or brushing back against the kind of tweetstorm attacks that Trump leveled against his last attorney general, Jeff Sessions. “Bill is tough and he’s not likely to be pushed around,” Flanigan said. “If it came to it, and Bill is being attacked — I don’t know that Bill has a Twitter account — but he just might get one.”
Still, Flanigan and others who worked with Barr at the Justice Department expressed surprise that he would even agree to take the job. White House officials “have been talking to him on and off for a long time. It started with the Russia defense job and then it was for the AG’s job as well,” said one source familiar with the conversations. “They talked to him multiple times. They were trying to convince him.”
Notably, the source said, Barr had watched with dismay Trump’s attacks on Sessions and had no interest in putting up with the same sort of abuse. What finally changed his mind? “Patriotism,” said Flanigan. He and others say Barr genuinely felt the call of duty, especially after the turmoil the Justice Department has experienced in recent weeks with the selection as acting attorney general of Matthew Whitaker, an obscure and inexperienced former U.S. attorney from Iowa whose main apparent credential was that he had previously defended Trump on cable TV.
Barr has deep, ongoing and personal ties to the Justice Department. His daughter, Mary Daly, a former federal prosecutor in New York, was named director of opioid enforcement earlier this year in a newly created position under Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. After Barr’s name was floated as a likely attorney general pick this week, several department veterans reached out to him, pleading with him to take the job, saying they were “lighting candles” hoping the reports of his nomination were true, said one knowledgeable source.
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But before he returns to the Justice Department, Barr will have to undergo a confirmation process where he will be questioned by Senate Democrats about his past discussions with Trump and others at the White House — as well as his public comments that touch on key aspects of the Mueller probe.
One starting point is likely to be Barr’s May 12, 2017, Washington Post op-ed that ran three days after the firing of Comey that run under the headline: “Trump Made the Right Call on Comey.” At the time, Trump was facing a storm of controversy over the Comey firing, especially after he acknowledged that “this Russia thing” was a factor in his decision — a motivation that has since blossomed into a central issue in the portion of Mueller’s investigation focused on potential obstruction of justice.
But Barr argued in his op-ed that Trump was well within his rights to fire Comey and had legitimate grounds for doing so, given that the FBI director bypassed the Justice Department when he publicly announced his recommendation during the 2016 election not to prosecute Hillary Clinton over her private email server. Arguing that the FBI director was never “in charge” of the Russia investigation anyway — that was a responsibility that Justice officials had — Barr contended: “Comey’s removal simply has no relevance to the integrity of the Russian investigation as it moves ahead.”
Download or subscribe on iTunes: “Skullduggery” from Yahoo News
Barr has made other comments that are potentially more problematic. He raised questions about political contributions made by a number of Mueller’s prosecutors to Democrats. “I would have liked to see him have more balance on this group,” he said. And Barr suggested that there were legitimate grounds to investigate Clinton’s ties to a uranium mining firm that benefited from a decision approved while she was secretary of state — a criminal probe repeatedly urged by Trump.
“There is nothing inherently wrong about a president calling for an investigation,” Barr told the New York Times last year, adding that “to the extent [the Justice Department] is not pursuing these matters, the department is abdicating its responsibility.”
Another wildcard in the mix is Barr’s past relationship with Mueller. When Barr was attorney general, Mueller was a key member of his team, serving as an assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division. The two men worked closely together on major issues, including the indictment of Libyan intelligence agents in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and the prosecution of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega on drug trafficking charges. (Barr would years later recall Mueller excitedly coming to his office to tell him about Noriega’s conviction, pumping his arm and shouting the Marine Corps battle cry, “Oorah!”)
Although former colleagues describe Barr and Mueller’s relationship as professional and mutually respectful, they say the two men were not especially close. And Flanigan recalls incidents during Justice Department senior staff meetings when Barr would occasionally challenge Mueller on some issues, usually with humorous asides.
Perhaps one of of the more telling moments from Barr’s tenure at the Justice Department came toward the very end when, during his final days in office, President George H.W. Bush announced the controversial decision to pardon six former Reagan administration officials who had been caught up in the Iran-Contra affair — one of whom, ex-Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger, was due to go to trial days later. The move drew angry protests from then-independent counsel Lawrence Walsh. Barr was a key adviser to the Bush White House on the move and gave his green light. It is advice he may have to give once again should Trump choose to pardon anybody charged by Barr’s former deputy, Mueller, in the Russia probe.
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>>21829430 skullduggery 2018
Trump first wanted his attorney general pick William Barr for another job: Defense lawyer
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-first-wanted-g-pick-bill-barr-another-job-defense-lawyer-231509009.html
https://youtu.be/jkeM13jMVK0?si=ZBB6-fep-_Gizw3p
Trump threatens adversaries who 'cheat' with jail if he wins election
SOON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GTNxPpiZnA
https://whyy.org/articles/trump-election-2024-kamala-harris-elizabeth-cheney-threat-civil-liberties/
October 22, 2024
Trump has made more than 100 threats to prosecute or punish perceived enemies
NPR's investigation found that Trump has repeatedly threatened to investigate, prosecute, jail or otherwise punish his political opponents, rivals and even private citizens.
With just two weeks remaining until the presidential election, former President Donald Trump has used his most recent appearances on podcast and cable interviews to escalate attacks on fellow Americans whom he calls “the enemy from within.”
In one recent interview, Trump said that if “radical left lunatics” disrupt the election, “it should be very easily handled by — if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military.”
<fellow Americans whom he calls “the enemy from within.”
>SOON
>>21829463 KEK
EVERYONE FORMER COLLEAGUE WHO WAS A FAIR WEATHER FRIEND TO TRUMP OVER THE YEARS
ALL
GONNA RUN LOOKING TO WORK WITH TRUMP
ALL WILL BE BLOCKED
If
Obama or Kamala
ever had a
Rapper name:
HIGHLY DUBIOUS
KEK
"Highly dubious" is an adjective that means:
something is not considered to be completely honest, safe, or reliable.
For example, you might describe a claim as "highly dubious" if you think it's probably wrong.
'Love me some Eminem': Obama raps on stage at Harris campaign rally
I>21829669
<If Israel attacks Iran this weekend
Any event of election is proof they, Israel, are not for America. Event makers, disruptors.
Not fren.
<ANYBODY THAT CHEATS ON THE ELECTION IS GOING TO JAIL!!!
Needs to be posted near all polling places make viral and viral allover social media in spanish andcenglish
MEGA PHONES TO TRANMIT THE MESSAGE
CHECK HOW FAR YOU NEED TO BE FROM ACTUAL POLLING PLACES
GET HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE IN ALL STATES, ESPECIALLY SWING STATES TO GO DO THIS ELECTION DAY ALL DAY
NEEDS TO BE BLASTED BY PATRIOTS OVER BULLHORNS
NEAR POLLING PLACES,
NOT AT POLLING PLACES, ILLEGAL,
BUT NEAR PARKING AREAS AND WHERE PEOPLE ARE WALKING UP TO VOTE,
SPREAD ON SOCIAL MEDIA
ENGLISH SPANISH
<ANYBODY THAT CHEATS ON THE ELECTION IS GOING TO JAIL!!!
THE DAILY BEAST
TRUMP PRESIDENT AGAIN IS CRAZY
https://www.thedailybeast.com/if-trump-seems-crazy-now-imagine-him-ruling-america-again/
THE ENEMY WITHIN
Should Trump defy history and return to the White House
as a convicted felon, he will send a message to the world that elections don’t matter.
Eleanor CliftUpdated Oct. 23 2024 12:50PM EDT /
HAHAHAHAAAAA LISTEN ENTIRE
BUT ESPECIALLY
@ 5:17 RE: TRUMP " HE IS TELLING YOU RIGHT TO YOUR STUPID FUCKING FACE"
HAHAHAHAAAAA
JAMES CARVILLE LOSING IT. @3:17
SAYS ABOUT TRUMP AND WHAT WILL HABBEN:
"GOING TO ARREST POLITICAL OPPONENTS, USE THE MILITARY, PELOSI, HILLARY, ELISABETH, ME INCLUDED"
"LET'S GET OUT THE HANDCUFFS, THE NIGHTSTICKS AND PICK UP A PACK OF LIBERALS AND BEAT THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF THEM"
THEY ARE LOSING THEIR "FUCKING" MINDS
I'M LOVIN' IT
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA JAMES CARVILLE
WHILE SITTING IN FRONT OF A DICK JIZZ ART PAINTING ON HIS HOME WALL
SO FUNNY TO SEE THIS PANIC
https://youtu.be/6Hlq2Gnd–s?si=7zjae4OYvS1Bg1sR
<ANYBODY THAT CHEATS ON THE ELECTION IS GOING TO JAIL!!!
why does this make me think of kamala and obama
king prawn
>>21829954 carville
he says "even me" when talking about libs being rounded up and shit kicked out of them
every one always says
frazzle drip
it is
frazzled rip
showing the effects of exhaustion or strain
think adrenoline, then the ripping for pineal
> drag $100 bill through a trailer park and see what it attracts
white trash republicans and much moar 1 year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSOgDWLnRr0
>>21829862 regarding carville: paula jones sitting with huge MAGA sized popcorn soon
<regarding carville: paula jones sitting with huge MAGA sized popcorn soon
Trump convenes meeting of Bill Clinton accusers ahead of debate
By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson Reuters Oct 10, 2016
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sits with (from left) Kathleen Willey. Juanita Broaddrick, Kathy Shelton, and Paula Jones in a hotel conference room in St. Louis, shortly before the second presidential debate at Washington University on Sunday.
getting comfy I bet
gearing up for nov 5
https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/voters/trump-convenes-meeting-of-bill-clinton-accusers-ahead-of-debate/article_8c4d6fe6-3b95-594c-9ada-aff277b7e8c0.html
very notable
The 5th Circuit has just ruled that ballots must be received BY ELECTION DAY to be counted — not days after — following an RNC lawsuit.
the days after election arriving ballots have always been a main avenue for the steal
reminder one month ago: listen
Trump Visits Sprankle’s Market: Takes Home Popcorn and Spreads Smiles | Asianet Newsable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HllXwl-FWm8
>>21830116 mika emile leonia brezinski scarborough
melbs
"Melbs" is an acronym for Melbourne, Australia
Today Friday 10/25/2024
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/mississippi-federal-court-to-decide-fate-of-late-arriving-ballots-for-2024-after-5th-circuit-ruling/
Mississippi Federal Court to Decide Fate of Late-Arriving Ballots for 2024 After 5th Circuit RulingBy Rachel Selzer
October 25, 2024
A panel of Trump-appointed judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) request to invalidate a Mississippi election law that allows for the counting of timely postmarked mail-in ballots for up to five business days after an election.
But with the Nov. 5 general election just 12 days away, the fate of late-arriving ballots in the Magnolia State still remains uncertain: The case will now return to a federal district court judge to determine how to implement the 5th Circuit’s ruling in light of legal precedent that counsels against making last-minute changes to election rules.
Friday’s decision reverses a district court judge’s prior rejection of the RNC’s lawsuit and could — depending on the district court’s next steps — put mail-in voters in Mississippi at risk of disenfranchisement due to postal delays or other factors beyond their control.
As of now, the consequences of today’s ruling are relatively limited given Mississippi is a non–battleground state that restricts mail-in voting to those who have a qualifying excuse.
However, should state officials or other defendants opt to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, an order from the justices could have nationwide implications. Approximately 20 other states and U.S. territories — including consequential mail-in voting heavy states like Nevada, New York and Ohio — permit ballots to be received after Election Day.
The Mississippi Legislature enacted the state’s five day post-election receipt deadline in 2020 with overwhelming bipartisan support.
Today’s unanimous ruling penned by Judge Andrew Oldham specifically held that Mississippi’s five-day deadline runs afoul of federal law, which sets a uniform day for elections to take place. The staunchly conservative panel’s decision concluded by stating that the case will be sent back to the “district court for further proceedings to fashion appropriate relief, giving due consideration to ‘the value of preserving the status quo in a voting case on the eve of an election.’”
In a lawsuit filed earlier this year, the RNC, Mississippi GOP and individual voters alleged that the state’s five-day deadline conflicts with federal law by “effectively extend[ing]” Mississippi’s federal election past the Election Day established by Congress. A judge promptly consolidated the suit with a nearly identical case from the Mississippi Libertarian Party.
The RNC’s legal challenge maintained that Mississippi’s post-Election Day receipt deadline disproportionately “harms” Republican voters, whom the committee maintained are historically less inclined to vote by mail.
The Republican plaintiffs also argued the challenged deadline impairs their constitutional right to vote because it results in “valid ballots” — especially those cast by Republican voters — being “diluted by untimely, invalid ballots” that they characterize as “fraudulent” and “illegitimate.”
Meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee, voting rights groups and the U.S. Department of Justice underscored how curtailing the state’s receipt deadline would disenfranchise large numbers of Mississippians who rely on mail-in voting — especially elderly voters, voters with disabilities and those serving overseas in the military.
Mississippi’s Republican secretary of state also defended the legality of the state’s five-day deadline, emphasizing that the law at issue does not allow voters to cast their ballots past Election Day as the Republicans averred.
By filing suit in a conservative judicial venue, the RNC hoped to secure a favorable pre-election ruling that would, according to its spokesperson, “have major ramifications in future elections — not just in Mississippi but across the country.”
Neither side has indicated whether it plans to appeal today’s ruling to the nation’s highest court.
Within the past year alone, federal courts have soundly rejected right-wing legal challenges over ballot receipt deadlines in Illinois, Nevada and North Dakota, all of which asserted similar arguments to those made by the RNC’s Mississippi case.
>>21830177 cont:
Within the past year alone, federal courts have soundly rejected right-wing legal challenges over ballot receipt deadlines in Illinois, Nevada and North Dakota, all of which asserted similar arguments to those made by the RNC’s Mississippi case.
Read the ruling here: pdf
(link in article)
Learn more about the case here: https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/mississippi-mail-in-ballot-receipt-deadline-challenge-mississippi/
Mississippi Mail-In Ballot Receipt Deadline Challenge (RNC)
Republican National Committee v. Wetzel
Filed: January 26, 2024
> 5th Circuit has just ruled that ballots must be received BY ELECTION DAY to be counted — not days after — following an RNC lawsuit
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/mississippi-mail-in-ballot-receipt-deadline-challenge-mississippi/
STATUS: On Oct. 25, 2024, the 5th Circuit reversed the district court’s decision upholding Mississippi’s mail-in ballot deadline, declaring it violates federal law. The 5th Circuit remanded the case to the district court to determine what relief can be granted ahead of the November election.
Case Documents (District Court)
Republican plaintiffs' notice of appeal (Aug. 2, 2024)(opens in new window)
Libertarian Party of Mississippi's notice of appeal (Aug. 2, 2024)(opens in new window)
Opinion (July 28, 2024)(opens in new window)
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Case Documents (5th Circuit)
Opinion (Oct. 25, 2024)(opens in new window)
Republican appellants' reply brief (Sept. 16, 2024)(opens in new window)
Libertarian Party of Mississippi's reply brief (Sept. 16, 2024)(opens in new window)
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