Katie Benner, Justice Department reporter for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that Bill Barr pressured federal prosecutors at the Southern District of New York office on cases with ties to Donald Trump. Aired on 6/25/2020.
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Barr Micromanagement Out Of Proportion On Trump-Tied Cases: NYT | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
No surprise here. This is what happens when the Attorney General of the United States reduces himself to being a defence attorney of the most incompetent, corrupt and immoral reality show president!
Ash Roskell Democrats better get used to losing and stuff. IMHO
Defense attorneys don’t break the law to protect their criminal clients.
Do all you guys share the same publicist, you all sound alike.
@Selah Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
he won’t be fit to defend a baby raper when this ends
Barr will be insane
Did I read that right? 🤔
Barr is micromanaging t’rump’s problems? 🤔🤔
Isn’t that Melania’s job? 🤔🤔🤔
Or Stormy’s?? 😄😅😂🤣
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No, their job is to awaken his Super Duper Missile!
@democrats Ah a true republican…got kiddies on your mind.
@Adam Roberts huh? Do you speak the same as you write? 🤔
@Adam Roberts – sounds like you do.
Unfortunately Barr is another absolute Trump’s sycophant!!!
janeen harris you’re witnessing the uneducated in action, basking in the glory of ignorance and stupidity.
@janeen harris just report him and move on
@15k DOW 2022 You’re a moron. The society is a complex place and many things happen in parallel. The protect is NOT ABOUT TRUMP!! but then, from the Premise of sentence, I know you’re thick and even if i told you, You’ll be too stupid to understand.
@From Surrey I’m def not on 15k’s side but there are too many grammatical errors in your reply for you to be calling anyone out as stupid. The switching of tenses multiple times in one sentence, for example (so you know I’m not simply referring to a misspelled word)
@15k DOW 2022 – hahaha, nutbag. Time to flatten the foil.
OH COME ON – LET’S GET RID OF THE FAKE “very stable genius,” and let’s go back to mental sanity!!!
How people think that scary protestors, looting, defying police and lighting businesses on fire evicts Trump is a moronic mystery. All of that gets him re-elected.
We all just want to sleep at night. Not happening right now based on the actions of trump and barr. EVERYBODY NEEDS TO VOTE ON NOVEMBER 3RD. GET THIS ADMINISTRATION OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE. If Joe Biden defeats trump, I will cry in relief.
@15k DOW 2022 – cutting and pasting gibberish, so original for tin foil hat wearers.
Making fun of the name of a virus that has killed over 122,000 people, think about that for a moment. Is this the part when America becomes great again?
No it”s not, actually is shameful and outrageous!! Unfortunately this describes millions of Americans that have no shame or moral values!
How in the world did someone as clearly corrupt as Barr ever get a law degree? That is unless he got it from Trump University.
In a 2016 lawsuit. National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard assured Trump’s personal lawyer at the time, Michael Cohen, “that they would track down the woman with ra. pe allegations against Trump and see what they could do about her.”
In the past, AMI has helped Trump by purchasing damaging stories about Trump in order to keep them from going public. AMI admitted that in 2016, it made a $150,000 payment “in concert” with Trump’s election campaign to former model McDougal, who had an affair with Trump a decade earlier. The publisher made the pact with McDougal to ensure that the she did not publicize damaging allegations about Trump before the election, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
The lawsuit filed against Trump in the lead-up to the 2016 election were claims that Trump £aped a teenager when she was 13 years old in 1994. The anonymous plaintiff, identified as “Katie Johnson” in an initial legal filing that was dismissed in California, and “Jane Doe” in two subsequent legal filings in NY—said that she was £aped by Trump during a party hosted by J. Epstein at his NYC apartment. In the third and final lawsuit, Doe alleged she had numerous 5exual encounters with Trump and Epstein at the latter’s parties..
Jane Doe alleged Trump tied her to a bed, “forcibly £aped her and threatened her and her family with physical harm, if not d€ath, if she told anyone about the assault. “I understood that Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein knew that I was 13 years old,” Jane Doe wrote in an affidavit.
After the suit was filed in September 2016, the Enquirer editor and Trump lawyer Cohen were in contact frequently. But there was no opportunity for them to buy this story and stop it from going public. AMI chief, Trump’s longtime friend, only found out about the lawsuit after it was filed.
In November 2016, just days before the election, Doe’s attorney Lisa Bloom, suddenly announced in a press conference that Jane Doe had been canceled, saying Doe had become frightened after receiving d€ath threats. Two days later, Doe’s lead attorney, Thomas Meager, filed to dismiss the case. “After we received numerous d€ath threats and my law firm’s website and emails were hacked, she did not want to go forward,” Bloom added. Jane Doe has not been heard from since..
How is Barr corrupt?
You’re citing the Enquirer and dropped legal cases… You sorta sound dumb and dumber
@15k DOW 2022 get a braille news paper. Your ears are also failing
Barr has more integrity in his big toe than you have in your entire
Body.
And that’s GOING TO BE FRONT PAGE NEWS ONCE TRUMP LOSES.
Trump doesn’t want her to Speak to the Public.
Summer Xervos is Allowed to Move forward with her Sexual ASSAULT SUIT against Trump. Every time I am reminded of this, it’s Disgusting that people Follow this CULT Leader who has a Mountain of Really Bad intentions to continue inflicting pain and getting away with it.
VOTE BLUE.
It’s not a GAME ANYMORE.
Why couldn’t courts be live on Protected Internet? With juries if need be?
That whole Republican Party is nothing but corruption on a stick. Their motto lie, cheat & steal…
How people think that scary protestors, looting, defying police and lighting businesses on fire evicts Trump is a moronic mystery. All of that gets him re-elected.
Where are you a citizen out of curiosity? Guessing the failing Europe
@15k DOW 2022 – Europe is as large as the U.S. and has the virus under control. The U.S. #1 in cases and #1 in deaths. So much for all that cough, cough winning. Time for a haircut, get your ak.
@15k DOW 2022 But not crap like this! You know how’s killing heros? Putin put a Bounty of our Troops and trump has done nothing about it since March; 20 dead so far! Wake up people, he doesn’t care about you/us or our troops. You are supporting a criminal regime. Full story: https://youtu.be/F_dfQ7aNlwg
Barr now motivated as much by self-preservation – because when Trump falls, Barr falls. And they both fall hard.
What’s happening is treasonous to all of you and your family and the United States of America and Americans all of us.they are killing us.
Aleta Mize killing who? How people think that scary protestors, looting, defying police and lighting businesses on fire evicts Trump is a moronic mystery. All of that gets him re-elected.
Barr didn’t need that job but he saw it as his patriotic duty to save this country. God Bless him and God Bless AMERICA and real AMERICANS, of which I can only assume you are not
@15k DOW 2022 – time for your haircut, go get your gun Anne Oakley, nutbag. There is no god.
15k DOW 2022 q
Clinton lost his licence to practice! Seriously why not BARR! Disbar Barr NOW!
@15k DOW 2022 Once! The Drumpf… over 17,000x… and Barr… at least 1,000x.
15k DOW 2022… you’re a Drumpfuck.
Trump Is Your President 🇺🇸
@Double Dog Dare No, he is Your “acting” president… and he was put into his position by imbeciles and Putin.
@15k DOW 2022 – the list of barrs lies grows longer everyday. Of course when he testifies he puszies out with “I don’t recall.” The lawyers real lie.
@Double Dog Dare – not for much longer! Make America Great Again #VOTEBLUE
I don’t even see Trump supporters defending Barr…
brilliantly said, ty ms benner and dr maddow. low-barr needs to go!
Barr should realise that Trump will blame him when Trump goes down.
@15k DOW 2022 The Trump “university” school system. It’s called dog Trump eats dog Barr.
MountainOf Everest, where did you get your information from? Tell me more….
Well, l had about 20 messages deleted but l expected it as such. They had no profanity or personal comments but refuted some of the group speak nonsense which thrives here. What is the purpose of this site when you must adhere to the fact free ad nauseam Trump bashing or get tossed. Boring!!!!!!
@KZ You know who’s killing heros? Putin put a Bounty of our Troops and trump has done nothing about it since March; 20 dead so far! Wake up people, he doesn’t care about you/us or our troops. You are supporting a criminal regime. Full story: https://youtu.be/F_dfQ7aNlwg
@Obilon Kenobi He has made Russia great again.
According to Barr, Trump is innocent and just had the incredible misfortune of only appointing criminals who committed crimes without his knowledge. How unlucky can one man be!
He only hires the best criminals!
Including Barr.
Barr, a Trump appointee, must be coming close to realising the Catch-22 situation that puts him in….
I think Barr had Epstein knocked off.
You thimk…….l find that supposition questionable.
@gary grine You can’t even spell “think” with a spelling checker and example in front of you, moron.
Let’s see everyone convicted were released from jail by Bar! Justice is dead
We have No More Justice not as long as Thug #2 Bar Is In Office. Both BunkerBoy and Barr can be ” Cell Mates ” 💩💩
The Flying Orange Clown Show has to end ASAP! Then prosecute and send them all to jail!
Put all Republicans and Trumpers in prison.
Sad so sad love.
Barr gets to play bull in a china shop, to distract from his boss’s crimes.
Is America great yet? Cuz I’m tired of winning.