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The Department of Justice is dropping its case against Michael Flynn, who lied to investigators about having conspired with the Russian ambassador to undermine sanctions on Russia.
In other words: Barr has done his job as Trump’s new Roy Cohn. apnews.com/ae1ad252bb1349…
Incredibly, Barr and his cronies aren’t even pretending to argue Flynn didn’t do what he pleaded guilty to doing.
Instead, they’re going with Trump’s favorite lie: that, despite years of evidence to the contrary, Flynn’s interview was part of a witch hunt. apnews.com/ae1ad252bb1349…
This is just the latest example of how Barr has spent more than a year undermining the Justice Department and turning it into Trump’s sword and shield.
Read the whole Barr file here: themoscowproject.org/explainers/the…
Rewriting history around the Russia investigation is central to Trump’s re-election campaign.
Sessions wouldn’t help him do it, so he replaced Sessions with Barr, who’s done exactly what Trump picked him to do. themoscowproject.org/dispatch/trump…
Here’s why that’s crucial:
“In the Trumpian narrative, the Russia scandal was where the witch hunt began...It thus remains a kind of lodestar. Discredit it, and you can discredit all the subsequent scandals and investigations with reference to it.“
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Why? Because “Bob Mueller’s findings were actually devastating for the president, and only by continually promoting belief in the evils of the investigation can Trump’s defenders evade the importance and magnitude of those findings.”
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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Reminder: Barr very publicly opening investigations into Trump’s political opponents with no evidence and discussing what he expects them to find is the exact opposite of the 2016 Russia investigation, which was carefully kept secret until post-election.
(If anything, it’s much more similar to how the FBI handled its investigation into the *other* candidate in 2016, which Comey—a top target of Trump and Barr’s conspiracy theories—went out of his way to repeatedly publicize, to Trump’s political advantage.) americanprogressaction.org/issues/securit…
These are happening because they can’t actually dispute the *results* of the investigations into Trump’s criminal presidency; even the motion to undo Flynn’s prosecution didn’t dispute his guilt. It’s just distraction and deception.
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Selective declassification has always been one of Trump and his accomplices' favorite tools. Now, they're using it to manufacture a scandal about Trump's political opponents while covering up the evidence of Trump's actual wrongdoing. Here's how:
themoscowproject.org/dispatch/creat…
They released the scope memo for the Mueller investigation, which Trump's cronies have long claimed would show Trump was the victim of a witch hunt. Meanwhile, they got the Supreme Court to help them keep actual evidence from the investigation secret. washingtonpost.com/politics/court…
Acting DNI Richard Grenell gave out a list of officials who signed off on unmasking requests that revealed Flynn's name, claiming it showed they were targeting Flynn (even though that's not possible, given how unmasking actually works). cnn.com/2020/05/13/pol…
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In case anybody doubted that Trump‘s Ukraine scheme was still going: A pro-Russia Ukrainian politician who met with Giuliani in December claims he will release recordings of Biden discussing the firing of Viktor Shokin with Ukraine’s former prime minister.
en.interfax.com.ua/news/press-con…
Notably, the politician doesn’t claim they show anything other than Biden discussing the need to fire Shokin—which was part of a legitimate, international, and bipartisan effort to oust a corrupt official who was notably *not* investigating Burisma.
en.interfax.com.ua/news/press-con…
Here’s the reporting from December on Giuliani’s meeting with the politician in question, Andrey Derkach, as part of the continuing effort to manufacture a bogus investigation into Trump’s political opponents: washingtonpost.com/world/europe/u…
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