You Just Can’t Make this Up
File under You Can’t Make this Up, the almost new Attorney General, Bill Barr, has a son in law named Tyler McGauhey is leaving the Justice Department to avoid conflicts of interest with Barr when he’s confirmed. Where’s he going, you ask? To the White House, of course, to work for White House counsel to fight off the Russia investigation. That’s right, folks, the new Attorney General’s son-in-law will be helping Trump…against the Justice Department.
EJ, I don’t want to appear to be teaching my granny how to suck eggs, but you have a mistake there. It should be ” the new Attorney General’s son-in-law will be helping Trump…WITH the Justice Department.”
That’s the whole reason they’ve oozed Barr into the position. Sure, he talked the talk in front of the senators. But (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) that’s just the fluffage you gotta do to get the position. Once in place, he’ll do what he’s been hired to do: protect Trump.
1That has to be a first in taking the bad straight to the worst. Moving from “conflict of interest” to direct collusion between Donnie’s man in the DOJ and the WH counsel.
2But, but… it can be justified as just one of the “Best People.”
3By the way, where’s Rudy? We haven’t heard from him lately.
East River?
Just another fool who’s gonna find that his career, reputation, etc., etc. will be in the toilet for working with Benedict Donald. He’ll be lucky to stay out of jail before this is all over.
4These are damn good today! Linda, love the ‘East River,’ and it’s likely to be fillin’ up. There must be something we can do fast to get rid of the current occupant at 1600 . . . something faster than the 25th Amendment? Anyone?
5There is no “conflict of interest” in the typical sense. Lots of sons and daughters are hired by a law firm in which a parent is a senior partner. Barr is aware that government service has rather stricter nepotism rules and for appearance sake he has farmed the son-in-law off to a job where nepotism is the prime qualification and in doing so we NOW have a huge conflict of interest.
6Bill Barr is the ultimate expert on pardons. That’s why he was chosen.Barr was intimately involved in securing pardons for Abrams and five other members of the Iran-Contra conspiracy back in 1992 — and speaks with pride of the achievement.
7“I went over and told the President I thought he should not only pardon Caspar Weinberger, but while he was at it, he should pardon about five others,” Barr told historians from the University of Virginia’s Miller Center in 2001. Yep, by the time the feds get done, there will be a whole lot of folks from Trump’s administration to pardon. Barr can show them the ropes when he is not busy sucking his teeth.
Shovels won’t work with this load of manure, they need one of the giant excavators used in quarries.
8McGauhey, like all the rest of the peons in the White House, definitely has an expiration date. Lets see how long he lasts.
9nepotism is a thuglican sin that is always overlooked and excused.
10From the bevy of conflicts of interest when the thuglican majority on the dishonorable scotus appointed the twit to destroy the US.
Thomas’s wife worked for the twits transition, sold out sandra day was seen and quoted that she a) wanted to retire and b) would only do so if a thuglican president could appoint another ideological hack to replace her, scalia’s son working for the twits law firm etc.
So this is just S.O.P. for the crooks.
A ps maybe Barr knew he would need help from inside the wh to assemble a complete list of people to print pardons for.
11maybe he could borrow the US mint’s printing press’s to run off enough pardons that will be needed by this administration.
New question in regards to Pardons will a autosigner be acceptable or will the demented one actually be required to risk writers cramp in signing them all.
(ahem)Re: nepotism; does the name Robert F. Kennedy ring any bells????
So, yeah, D’s do/did it too.
12RFK had been a staff attorney on high profile cases ( Mob cases).
13Ivanka is a failed bimbo.
Jared is a crooked developer.
ginni thamas is a whack job.
cheney’s daughter insisted on illegaly carrying guns in public buildings.
powells son was a corporate shill ( FCC)
I do NOT accept ones “bothsiderism” to protect flagrent and abusive appointments that fly in the face of reason and sanity.
Gee your analogy is comparable to comparing FDR’s dec;aration of war ( “a Day that will live in infamy”) to the twits inane invasion of Iraq.
Inane.
A hundred years from now, should humans survive that long, political historians are going to have such fun with this administration! They’ll be forever sorting out the mess, and spend as much time shaking their heads in disbelief as they do in whatever replaces typing their theses. I’m glad somebody is going to get to enjoy it.
14So cocktails before the weekly family dinner should be time enough to pass on the latest news of Mueller to the White House, including memory stick with doc copies.
15@WA not so Skeptical: When you find the Senate confirmation of Ivanka, Jared or Tyler, get back to us.
16@WA had to go back to the case that generated the anti-nepotism law. The screams from R’s re Bobby K. are still echoing through the canyons of my mind.
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