Trump and Barr have a plan

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https://crooked.com/articles/barr-trump-plan/

Crooked said:
The Attorney General of the United States has revealed the contours of a shocking plan to deploy the federal government’s law enforcement powers, and exploit the U.S. court system, to bolster President Trump’s re-election campaign, and even help him retain office against the will of national majorities.

This scheme, which they have begun to carry out already, was the most important upshot of Bill Barr’s long-overdue testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, and easily divined from the statements he made under oath. That it didn’t loom large in national media is a consequence of journalists approaching the event not to pinpoint and amplify the most newsworthy disclosures, but to convey how watching the hearing felt—a wholly subjective experience colored by the jading effect of repetition, and the pressures members of the political press corps feel to avoid the appearance of bias.

Those who didn’t or couldn’t watch the hearing live will thus learn that its defining quality was “a thick fog of partisan bickering” in which “Democrats tried to portray [Barr] as a dangerous errand boy for the president” while Barr “insisted he was trying to enforce the law against what he characterized as rioters using demonstrations as cover to commit crimes.” In other words: that the hearing did not advance our understanding of America’s political reality at all.

In reality, it provided the clearest confirmation yet of what many of Barr’s and Trump’s staunchest critics have long suspected. And both Democrats and the general public will suffer if they assume based on these news reports that the hearing was useless partisan spectacle, freeing Barr and Trump execute their scheme without sustained scrutiny.

Across several disjointed lines of questioning, Barr revealed that he and Trump, along with other cabinet secretaries—who are supposed to run federal agencies in the public interest—discuss the election as a matter of course. He acknowledged that he has assumed the role of deciding where to deploy paramilitary forces to stoke violent conflict with protesters, in service of Trump’s campaign message. He asserted that he intends (or at least hopes) to release a propaganda report in the coming weeks, in defiance of DOJ policy against meddling in elections. Most alarmingly, he promised that he (and only he!) would leave office if the results of the election are “clear,” but only after stipulating that he and Trump will question the results of any election in which larger-than-normal numbers of people vote by mail and that he won’t hesitate to throw the weight of DOJ behind Trump if he tries to enlist the justice system to throw out ballots rather than concede defeat.

Stripped of most critical gloss, here’s Barr in his own words:

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I'm tired, too...

They've made no secret that this has been a coup in all but name, and every day of every month of every year since 2016 has made it more and more clear that not only was it a coup but that the institutions and heroes everyone's counting on to set things right are neutered or compromised beyond hope.
 

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Hopefully, they are planning on dying in prison.