This miscarriage of justice
The mafia boss issues instructions.
He says “cannot allow” as if he were a literal dictator.
Barr leaps to obey as if Trump were a literal dictator.
The president sent his message a little before 2am on Tuesday, after a rally in New Hampshire and a visit to Delaware to honour two US soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, it seemed the tweet would have its desired effect.
The Washington Post quoted a “senior justice department official” as saying: “The department finds the recommendation extreme and excessive and disproportionate to Stone’s offences. The department will clarify its position later today.”
The Post characterised the move as “a stunning rebuke of career prosecutors that will surely raise questions about political meddling in the case”.
Questions which will go unheeded as the Trump mafia tightens its hold on everything.
Tighter and tighter.
Barr is a frightening character. He is more competent than Trump, and he is a true believer, unlike Trump. Trump is just in it for the egoboo and the grift. Barr is in it to destroy American democracy as we have known it.
And now two of the prosecutors have withdrawn from the case.
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944/3012363602115414/?type=3&theater
(Count von Count voice)
Four! Four prosecutors have withdrawn!
(/CvC)
DoJ had to get the Acting Chief of the Criminal Division in D.C. to sign the new sentencing memorandum. Why Acting? Oh, because the regular chief of that division resigned yesterday. I’m sure that’s a coincidence.
I hope Berman tells them to stuff it.