'We caught them': Trump blasts 'corrupt' Biden after release

of Flynn unmasking list

by Anthony Leonardi

May 14, 2020 07:48 AM

"President Trump blasted former Vice President Joe Biden after the release of a newly declassified list.

In a Thursday interview with Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo teased Wednesday, the president reacted to records from acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell that show a list of people, including Biden, who received information in response to "unmasking" requests targeting then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn.

“This was all Obama. This was all Biden,” Trump said.

Sixteen of the more than 30 people on the list made requests for Flynn's identity to be unmasked, and Trump claimed it implicated Biden in what he has called "Obamagate." However, it is not yet known if Biden made one of the requests or even looked at the information.

“These people were corrupt. The whole thing was corrupt. And we caught them. We caught them,” Trump told Bartiromo.

“And what you saw just now. I watched Biden yesterday, he could barely speak. He was on Good Morning America, right? And he said he didn’t know anything about it. And now, it just gets released right after he said that, it gets released that he was one of the unmaskers, meaning he knew everything about it," he added.

Biden, during a Tuesday interview, corrected himself after initially claiming he was not aware of the FBI investigation into the retired lieutenant general."

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Once uncontroversial, Bill Barr is the Trump aide liberals love

to hate

by W. James Antle III

May 14, 2020 07:00 AM

"Attorney General William Barr has emerged as a top liberal boogeyman in the Trump administration, owing in part to his efforts to flip the script on the investigations that have plagued the White House since 2017 by turning inquiries once thought likely to bring down the president into serious scrutiny of the investigators themselves.

Rep. Adam Schiff, the California Democrat at the center of this year’s impeachment inquiry, accused Barr of “the worst politicization of the Justice Department in its history.” Former President Barack Obama said of recent Barr decisions that, “[Y]ou begin to get worried that basic, not just institutional norms, but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk.” House Judiciary Committee Democrats, led by New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, alleged “corruption and unacceptable political influence.”

Politico described Barr as “working to dismantle and discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, injecting Trump-friendly political considerations into criminal case decisions along the way.” Brookings Institute senior fellow and former intelligence community lawyer Susan Hennessey protested on Twitter: “This moment represents the full collapse of an apolitical Justice Department. An astonishing assault on the rule of law and in a functional DOJ it would prompt mass resignation.”

When President Trump tapped him to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Barr had already been attorney general under President George H.W. Bush at just 41 years of age. Barr was staunchly conservative but also seen as solid and uncontroversial — he was confirmed by a Senate voice vote in 1991, receiving the unanimous support of a majority-Democratic Judiciary Committee then chaired by Joe Biden — while Sessions had been a lightning rod proponent of the president’s populist and nationalist policies. But Sessions recused himself from the Trump-Russia investigation, paving the way for Mueller’s appointment and rupturing his relationship with Trump, while Barr has zealously defended the president’s prerogatives.

Barr has appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, which found no criminal conspiracy between Moscow and the Trump campaign. Instead, a subsequent review concluded questionable FISA applications were used to surveil at least one Trump aide. Under Barr’s leadership, the Justice Department has also dropped federal charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn."

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