Do not let William Barr pretend to have been on the side of the angels.
Had Trump been reelected with William Barr at his side, how much rule of law would remain in the United States?
Here was your Attorney General at work, a year ago this month. Do not forget: #AP
As early as October 1992, William Safire in NYT called William Barr the “Coverup General”:
Remember how William Barr campaigned to help Trump subjugate the Justice Department to himself and how he muffled and covered up the most damaging evidence in the Mueller Report.

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28 Jun
“I guess you’re not here to open an I.R.A.”—“Wall Street,” 1987:
"It's gonna be hard on you, but maybe, in a kind of screwed-up way, it’s the best thing that could have happened to you. Stop going for the easy buck, and produce something with your life.”
—Martin Sheen to son Charlie as “Bud Fox” about his imprisonment, in “Wall Street,” 1987:
"Bud, I like you — just remember something.
Man looks in the abyss.
There's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character.
And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.”
—“Wall Street,” 1987:
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Someone lounging at a New Jersey country club has issued a nasty statement denouncing Mitch McConnell and William Barr.
We can only imagine what the guy lounging at the NJ country club must have looked like while dictating his diatribe against McConnell and Barr:
Why would the guy in N.J. choose this particular week to rant against those involved in his 2020 election defeat, which denied him the protective legal immunity that is granted to a sitting President? Anything newsworthy about to happen?
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Plot summary of “Trackdown: The End of the World” (CBS, May 1958): “Walter Trump, a confidence man…tells the people a cosmic storm will hit the town and he is the only one who can save them."
In “Trackdown: the End of the World” (CBS, 1958), the con man “Walter Trump” tells a crowd, “I am the only one! Trust me! I can build a wall around your homes that nothing will penetrate!"
In “Trackdown: The End of the World” (CBS, 1958), when someone asks the sheriff how long he will let “this con man” called "Walter Trump" walk around town, “Trump" threatens, “Be careful son, I can sue you!”
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Before a crowd in Ohio, some guy in a red tie is reading a poem called “The Snake” from a script.
He’s talking a lot about crime and prisons.
Haven’t heard these old, shopworn “sir” stories for awhile.
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Program about cousins in Brooklyn:
Patty Duke Show theme song must have been designed to stay in your head:

“Flintstones” and “Patty Duke” theme songs were both sung by the Skip-Jacks:

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Ex-President’s lawyer is probably not happy about his suspension today from practicing law in New York State:
Maybe now more time for him to pursue his movie acting career:
Ex-President’s lawyer was a giant of the American courtroom:
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