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Trump Announces Bill Barr As His Attorney General Pick


President Trump announced Friday his intention to nominate William Barr to be attorney general, according to the White House pool.

“He was my first choice since day one,” Trump said. “He’ll be nominated.”

Barr previously served as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush. If confirmed, he would replace acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker, who was named to the role after Trump fired former Attorney General Jeff Sessions last month.

While he has an extremely conservative record, Barr would also bring to the role seasoned experience and is well regarded in the legal community. While some Democrats have already said they’d oppose Barr — who the Washington Post reported Wednesday was the front-runner for the nomination — others signaled their openness to him. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), a former Judiciary chairman who remains on the committee suggested Wednesday that Barr would get bipartisan support in the Senate.

Regardless, Barr’s confirmation process is likely to take months.

Trump’s choice of Barr comes after his decision to name Whitaker as Sessions’ temporary successor was widely criticized. Whitaker was previously Sessions’ chief-of-staff and had only been in the Department for little over a year, since his previous stint as a U.S. attorney under the Bush administration. Just as concerning, however, were the comments Whitaker made as a TV pundit before joining the Department criticizing special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, which he now in theory manages. On top of that, he sat on the board of a company that has been called a scam and is now being investigated by the FBI, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Democrats would presumably want reassurances that Barr, who as attorney general would be in position to oversee Mueller’s investigation, would not do anything to interfere with the probe. An attorney general opposed to the investigation could theoretically move to cut funding or block certain investigative steps. But depending on how long the confirmation process takes, it is not clear how much of the investigation would remain by the time a new attorney general takes office.

“What I have said, without mentioning Mr. Barr — I’ve said, the best thing the administration can do is to get somebody who had majority support from Republicans and Democrats alike for attorney general. Those are the best attorneys general,” said Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which would hold hearings on a nominee.

Barr, he said, could fit that bill.

Still, while in private practice, Barr has occasionally weighed in on hot-button investigative matters in ways that could prompt concerns among Democrats.

He told The New York Times in November 2017, in a story about Sessions directing his prosecutors to look into actions related to Trump rival Hillary Clinton, that “there is nothing inherently wrong about a president calling for an investigation” — though Barr also said one should not be opened just because a president wants it.

He said there was more basis to investigate a uranium deal approved while Clinton was secretary of state in the Obama administration than potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

“To the extent it is not pursuing these matters, the department is abdicating its responsibility,” Barr told the newspaper.

He also wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post in May 2017 defending Trump’s decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey, one of the actions Mueller has been examining for possible obstruction of justice.
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TheNightKing said:
His team's counter report compared to Mueller's thorough report is just going to expose him even more. His team is notoriously unqualified for even the smallest jobs.
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I was just going to type the same thing......his team is incompetent to the highest order. The counter report will mostly be the equivalent of "Look, there was 6 people living in that house and I only killed 2. The arresting officer had a DUI back in 2011. The judge has a gambling problem.....the justice system is rigged "
 
The way Trump is buggin this morning...

@ Mueller
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Trump acts like just because there's some far flung conflict of interest that absolves him of any crimes they find.

Nah, evidence is evidence and facts are facts. Perceived conflicts of interest do not make them false.
 
I'm extremely curious to see yall reaction if nothing happens to Trump.

For 2 years damn near on a daily basis some of yall have been saying "the walls closing in, Mueller got what needs, so so is snitching, it's about to happen" yet nothing for 2 years has happened.

Mueller doing his thing and due diligence for sure but this shit is bigger than Trump and exposing Trump shit might expose and fuck up some shit that can't be let out. If in order to lock Trump up said things might become public Trump is going to walk. If that happens not sure how some of yall might deal with that. LLS
 
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/un-ambassador-downgrade-non-cabinet-position

WH Official: UN Ambassador Will Be Downgraded To Non-Cabinet Position


WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House official says the Trump administration is downgrading the U.S. diplomatic post at the United Nations to a non-Cabinet position.

President Donald Trump on Friday announced that he had chosen State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

If confirmed, the former Fox News Channel reporter who has little foreign policy experience would replace Nikki Haley, a former South Carolina governor who said she was stepping down at the end of the year.

While Nauert will be a leading administration voice on Trump’s foreign policy, a White House official told The Associated Press that her post would be a non-Cabinet position. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the change.
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GOP Sen: Stop Nominating People With ‘Questionable Records On Race’


Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) submitted a letter to The Wall Street Journal on Thursday in response to an editorial on judicial nominee Thomas Farr this week that argued Democrats should stop calling racism to advance their agenda.

Scott agreed that while a nominee’s history “should be seen through a wider lens, the solution isn’t simply to decry ‘racial attacks.'”

“Instead, we should stop bringing candidates with questionable track records on race before the full Senate for a vote,” he wrote. “What this means, regardless of the obvious issues the Democratic Party has on race, is that the Republican Party must strive to do better. We can build on the momentum of opportunity zones and criminal-justice reform to show we are serious about tackling real issues facing people of color. I know conservative solutions can transform lives, but if folks don’t trust us, implementing those solutions becomes impossible.”

Democrats opposed Farr’s nomination to a federal district court, citing his past defense of a voter ID law in North Carolina that was designed to suppress the black vote. After Scott joined Democrats in their opposition to Farr last month — and with Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) continuing his opposition to judicial nominees while he pushes for legislation to protect the special counsel — Farr’s nomination will likely be ill-fated.
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