“Not every abuse of power, no matter how outrageous, is necessarily a federal crime,”
Okay. here’s my take on that crap-for-brains statement. Barr is simply another gubbermint minion trying to hold things together so the high level bureaucraps, and the president, can do what they want, when they want to do it in the future as they’ve done in the past.
He sort of reminds me of the civil servants in the English TV comedy ‘Yes Minister’ who feel their burden is to protect the status quo of the corrupt power acquired by gubbermint from a clueless executive.
If a former president could be prosecuted for what he did while in office, he believes the nation would see nothing but a never ending series of such when the presidency changed parties. He considers what Obammy did merely a bit more ‘over the top’ than what he’s previous seen, and probably considers the current uproar just standard operational political grandstanding.
He might be right about the latter, but then again, he might be wrong.
The problem with all this is, reverse the players and does anyone really believe that an AG Holder or Lynch wouldn’t prosecute the dickens out of Trump?
Trump’s attorney general dismisses possibility of ‘Obamagate’ investigations
William Barr says review of origins of Russia inquiry highly unlikely to lead to criminal investigation of Obama and Biden
As Donald Trump continued to propagate his “Obamagate” pseudo-scandal on Monday, the US attorney general, William Barr, said he did not expect a justice department review of the FBI’s handling of 2016 election interference to lead to the criminal investigation of Barack Obama or Joe Biden.
“As to President Obama and vice-president Biden, whatever their level of involvement, based on the information I have today, I don’t expect Mr Durham’s work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man,” Barr said.
He was referring to federal prosecutor John Durham, who is reviewing the origins of the investigation of Russia’s 2016 election interference which expanded to include links between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
“Not every abuse of power, no matter how outrageous, is necessarily a federal crime,” Barr said.
With Biden the presumptive Democratic nominee for president in November, and leading in most polls, Trump has repeatedly referred to a supposed scandal he calls “Obamagate”, saying without evidence that his predecessor and his vice-president were tied to what he claims was “the biggest political crime in American history, by far!”
Without identifying who he was talking about, Barr said on Monday: “Our concern over potential criminality is focused on others.”