Rachel Maddow looks at a newly released DOJ memo that shows all Ukraine-related investigations being consolidated in such a way that even investigations already in progress, like those the SDNY is reportedly conducting of Rudy Giuliani now have to be processed through Main Justice. Aired on 02/18/20.
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DOJ Memo Shows Barr's Lid On Reported Giuliani Investigation | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
No wonder DOJ troops are starting a revolution…..to bring down the corrupt dictator and his cronies….the leaks will never end.
David Carter Trump 2020
Get it done FBI
John Connor What else can you say?
LLC Common sense from their leaders.
It shows how compromised American justice is that not one patriot in justice leaked this in over a month. There is no federal justice anywhere in America. We have been a Banana Republic for at least a month.
@Crystal Giddens
Your ill informed and delirious…
@Eddie Lugo
Talking Heads – Life During Wartime LIVE Los Angeles ’83
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jShMQw2H2cM
@Shiroi Ryu
“”TOUCHÉ”” !!!
I told her to STOP TAKING THOSE MAGIC MUSHROOMS.
@Crystal Giddens
“”SAY NO TO DRUGS””
Trump didn’t drain the swamp, he pardoned it instead.
@Crystal Giddens Yep. Just like he lied in the impeachment. Not a far stretch, really.
@Be Best, Be Gone Satan Has a Son
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK_JUg22efs
And Dem constituents SAT and watched!
Lame!
Where are the Dems? 3 years sitting on the couch!!!
Wake up!
Contact STAND UP America
JUST DO IT! 😁
RUDY HITS A GRAND SLAM TODAY !!!!!!
https://youtu.be/jSGxGgqy8zg
@Dawn Oceanside You mean as the Dems impeached him and the repubs have him a BJ???
#OrangeMenace and #SlobBarr represent two catastrophes merging into a larger catastrophe.
The president is a to the core corrupt criminal and traitor who wants to be King or Dic(k)tator but ultimately must stay in office to stay out of prison. The other guy, the attorney general, is a ideologue and lunatic who believes a president should be like a King, above the law and accountable to nobody. He tried that as AG under Bush senior but Bush wasnt interested in being an autocrat. Now he found trump, the perfect vessel for his ideology – and he is determined to get his satisfaction out of making the donald a King, no matter what the damage will be!
I think it is safe to assume that both are mentally ill.
Trumpers? *sigh*….let’s hear the spin. …
Spin??? They’re too dumb to spin a top!
Their latest talking point is that he has the right to do it, therefore it’s fine. Just remember, these are the SAME people that called Obama a dictator for eight YEARS. It’s like hypocrisy on steroids.
The corruption is so disgusting trump can spread lies and ruin the reputation of anyone who tells the truth. While all the time he lets criminals off. We have to get trump and barr in jail befor its to late
The President is quite within the LAW. To issue pardons, to anybody, who is held in legal custody. He is at liberty to order these Pardons. Full stop.
@Ian Ripp. And we are at liberty to point out his corrupted intent and disregard of the public trust that he would use the power we grant him for his own personal agenda.
Ultimately we can take it away and if 2018 is any indication we will end this and have the means to make sure it doesn’t happen again any time soon.
@Ian Ripp. While you are technically correct, please note that Presidents have been investigated for criminality in conjunction with some pardons in the past. And a debate of the purport and the motives of those pardons can, rightfully, raise rancor, which is what you are hearing now. Some pardons have been widely seen as noble, and for the good of the country. These, not so much so. But anyways, you missed 4/5s of the topic of this thread in your reply, as the the original poster did not state that “[Trump] lets criminals run free” was a crime, and only evinced a generally shared public sentiment that THEY personally feel that many of his acts are corrupt and criminal in nature, and that we must continue to expose them.
@jordan matthei
And the GOP is immune to the electorate? I doubt that very much.
Big problem as long as Moscow Mitch stays in his seat, he stops everything. He must leave!
Vote-by-mail with ballot tracking. Postage paid.
Which is the way we do it in both Oregon and Washington State.
Just voted for Bernie in CA, through the mail.
AMERICA: YOU HAVE TO REMOVE THE ENTIRE CABINET! EVERYONE OR YOUR DOOMED!😬😳
The new President gets to pick his own cabinet, so we need to elect a new one this year.
RUDY HITS A GRAND SLAM TODAY !!!!!!
https://youtu.be/jSGxGgqy8zg
Wow Barr shutting down SDNY. We are losing our justice system.
The most corrupt and criminal Administration in American History.
No wonder why those federal lawyers are meeting over Barr but what are they going to do?! How can they help us? Disbarr Barr?!
It’s almost as if the chief executive controls the executive branch.
Who woulda thunk it?
Only everyone with common sense
@Joshua Deeds – It’s almost as if the chief executive is using his control of the executive branch to shut down investigations that will embarrass the president? Who woulda thunk it? I hope you hold the same opinion when Democrats are doing it? Because everything you justify now… I expect later. Remember that Banana-Republicans and CONS-ervatives.
Trump thinks he is the silk purse made from a sows ear. But he is really Just a 🐖pig.
DONTHECON IS RUNNING THE CON OF HIS LIFE ON AMERICA
@15k DOW 2022
Little mushroom dk pussygrabber DRUMPF is no man 😝
What do you expect from a pig only a grunt.
Don’t offend pigs please.
The corruption,the shredding of the reputation and credibility of the United States of America in such a few short years by trump is fascinating and sickening to observe. In the words of your Clown in Chief himself it’s very #sad to see #bigly.
I have to state again: Donald never said “bigly”.
He said “big-league”.
But he did say all other kinds of dumb stuff.
And by the way; the hair is all his.
Trump didn’t empty the swamp, he is the swamp. Welcome to an overthrow of democracy. All hail Captan Corruption!
Do you even know how many genders exist? MAGA Country 2020 for Jussie Smollett.
TRUMP MADE THE SWAMP WORSE BRINGING THOUSANDS OF ALLIGATORS TO THE SWAMP.
It doesn’t matter because nothing is going down on Rudy till 2021, and a special prosecutor will be assigned to look into any cases Barr got personally involved with. Then another special prosecutor will be assigned to look at all the smoke that was coming out of the Trump Whitehouse. Trump and Barr have been spending so much time committing crimes it probably will take 2 Mueller efforts to sort it out, and you see all the crimes Stone was charged with when it’s hard to say what he actually did, how many charges do you think they will be able to drop on the Trump administration. It will probably end up like the Flynn case and they will just pick a half dozen of the easiest to prove.
Doug Thomson we’ll pull out of this! Don’t lose faith…✌🏼
They are doing this RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR FACES!!!!!! This administration is OVERTHROWING our government. They ALL need to go!!!!
Andy You have a point for sure. I just get so angry at the blatant disregard and hypocrisy coming from that side. Grrr. Lol.
@NYC1927 Listen, I get it. I’m Canadian and I’m loosing it lol, but with distance comes perspective, like they say in painting…
Andy Lollol, so true! And please tell your fellow countrymen that it’s the ignorant who back this man and not the true Americans. We just never knew we had so MANY fools here. Lol!
NYC1927 what government
@NYC1927 I always say: Einstein got it best! ” Only two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the Universe.” Enjoy the debate!
It is so painful to see how far our country has fallen under this incredibly corrupt Administration.
jeez, and america is sitting there and silently watching how these people are turning your country into a dictatorship. not even voting for a democrat will change that. stand up!
@Flashy Paws maybe he will get Coronavirus…just tell him it has crowns.
We did stand-up what you want us to do go in there and punch the banana Republicans in the face we didn’t have the vote to impeach him
Putin will make trump win again
shonenlad one agree, the problem is we all assume there will be a vote come November. He will probably enact Marshall law for some made up reason and its over…..all constitutional norms breakdown and he becomes the dictator in charge……it’s really that simple.
Barr is gagging his own prosecutors, how long will they put up with it?
THEY’LL PUT UP WITH IT TO KEEP THOSE CUSHY, DO-NOTHING JOBS. PROFESSIONAL LIARS THAT CAN’T DO REAL WORK. MOST OF THEM DON’T EVEN KNOW HOW TO DRIVE.
For my friends everything,
for my enemies the LAW.
This is what a BANANA REPUBLIC looks like.
Ole Rudy once prosecuted criminals and now he is one.
RUDY HITS A GRAND SLAM TODAY !!!!!!
https://youtu.be/jSGxGgqy8zg
He the trade
The inmates are running the prisons. No body moves without getting permission from the inmates now in charge.
Every day in every way we are moving closer and closer to true Fascism.
Yes. And in every other democracy—especially those in Europe that have experienced fascism and communism—citizens would be protesting in masses already a few month ago if “a Trump” would happen in their nations (although it is probably harder for a single person to get power in the modern parliamentary system they mostly have). H*ll, even in totalitarian nation people protest in masses, risking their lives, just for a few drops of freedom or justice.
That is why fascism will happen in the US. Because people are too comfortable and believe someone else will/must do something about it. More then 99,99% of Americans will accept fascism. Because it seems like it is less then 0,01% that actively do something about it. And it is appearance that matters when fighting fascism. If the fascists see that they get away with it easy without any resistance… they continue… every day in every way. Like if 10’000 showed up outside Barrs office for a few days, he would most likely become reluctant in his strife to make Trump a tyrant.
No… commenting on social media doesn’t count. And it’s a long time until November. Trump and the GOP may have corrupted the voting system fully by then. And placed enough ever-Trumpers in charge of courts, the police forces, the military, etc. to make him untouchable…. it is often enough with just a handful in the right positions to be able to control a nation.