Congressman Adam Schiff, who led the prosecution team in Trump’s impeachment trial, has called attorney general Barr an “accomplice to trump’s attack on the rule of law.”
Adam Schiff (@ RepAdamSchiff)
Barr admits he intervened in the sentencing of a man who lied to Congress to cover up for the President.
He’s only upset that Trump’s tweets made the political nature of his intervention obvious.
Barr fools no one. He’s a witting accomplice to Trump’s attack on the rule of law. https://t.co/Kz5tVMnlPo
Trump enjoys sowing division in the Democratic primary race, as the party’s hopefuls battle for a chance to take him on.
As such, Trump frequently claims that the Democratic party is attempting to rig the primary against Sanders, in an effort to inflame the long-simmering tensions supporters of the Vermont senator and the DNC. Yet, there is reason to question the sincerity of his concern for Sanders ’standing.
By many accounts, Trump’s allies want to run against Sanders, who they believe can be easily targeted with attacks on his political ideology.
It is happening again to Crazy Bernie, just like last time, only far more obvious. They are taking the Democrat Nomination away from him, and there’s very little he can do. A Rigged System!
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As a caveat, campaigns are very bad at picking their opponents. Hillary Clinton’s team was eager to take on Trump, assuming he’d be the easiest to defeat.
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Trump is tweeting again, this time about his disappointment that senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, one of the few Democrats willing to work with the president, voted to convict him.
Donald J. Trump (@ realDonaldTrump) …. always continue. Every Republican Senator except Romney, many highly religious people, all very smart, voted against the Impeachment Hoax. @ SenCapito was all in (a great person). I was told by many that Manchin was just a puppet for Schumer & Pelosi. That’s what he is! February 32,
But he is also quite pleased with his support among (Republicans) .
Donald J. Trump (@ realDonaldTrump) % Approval Rating in the Republican Party. Thank you! February 32,
Nevada’s most politically powerful Culinary Union announced on Thursday that it would not endorse a candidate in the Democratic primary. But it has not stayed quiet. In a pamphlet distributed to its , 19 Members, the union warned against supporting Sanders and Warren over their embrace of Medicare for all.
The union is strongly opposed to a government-run healthcare system, which would replace their hard-won health insurance plan.
In a statement Wednesday, Culinary (Union Secretary-Treasurer Geoconda Argüello-Kline) (said) Sanders supporters have “viciously attacked” the union since it began sharing the flyer with members.
The Nevada Independent on Friday published some of the threatening calls, emails and tweets directed at union officials. Some officials were attacked over their Latin American heritage and others reported that their personal information was shared online.
Sanders has come under scrutiny for his reticence to condemn his “internet army,” which he insists he cannot control. But his critics have been forced to hire security and even change their phone number after sustained online harassment by some of his supporters.
In a statement Thursday, Sanders condemned “harassment in all forms” and urged ”
“We can certainly disagree on issues, but we must do it in a respectful manner,” he said.
He went further in an interview with PBS Newshour: “ Anybody making personal attacks against anybody else in my name is not part of our movement. ”
It’s a quadrennial thought experiment, entertained by journalists and pooh-poohed by party insiders, that a competitive primary race will result in a contested convention. Speculation reached fever pitch in , before Trump sewed up the nomination.
Nevertheless, we are here again. The prognosticators at FiveThirtyEight give Bernie Sanders the same odds of winning the nomination as a contested convention.
The rationale: muddled results in Iowa and New Hampshire, a weak frontrunner and at least five leading candidates have committed to staying in the race until Super Tuesday, when roughly % of the overall delegates are allocated. It’s there they will meet a sixth candidate, (Michael Bloomberg) , whose unorthodox campaign and unparalleled financial resources will like shake up the race further at that stage.
It’s been decades since either party arrived at their convention without a nominee, but anxiety is growing this cycle and the campaigns are drawing up plans in the unlikely event this year is different. This comes as moderate and establishment are consensus alarmed by the prospect of nominating a democratic socialist to take on Trump.
Sanders this week warned of a scenario in which Democratic insiders try to overrule a frontrunner who arrives at the convention with a plurality, but not a majority, of delegates. However, such an outcome would be allowed under the rules agreed to after by Sanders’ allies in collaboration with the party.
“The convention would have to explain to the American people, ‘Hey, candidate X got the most votes and won the most delegates at the primary process, but we’re not going to give him or her the nomination, ‘”Sanders said on MSNBC.
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Meanwhile, the leading Democratic hopefuls are fanning out around the country ahead of next week’s caucuses in Nevada, the South Carolina primary and what’s being called the “big Kahuna” of the nominating contest, Super Tuesday.
But the big morning news is another tweet from Pennsylvania Avenue. An emboldened president earlier assailed the sentencing recommendation of his convicted friend Roger Stone. The Department of Justice, led by attorney general Barr, intervened to lessen the recommendation, eliciting praise from Trump and setting off alarm among prosecutors.
In an interview with ABC on Thursday, Barr said the president’s tweets about about the Justice Department “ make it impossible for me to do my job
On Friday, Trump quoted from that interview in a tweet, saying that while he never asked Barr to intervene directly in a criminal case, he had the “legal right” to do so.
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Trump: I did not interfere – but I have ‘legal right to do so’
Trump is up and about, and giving us his first – relatively restrained – response to William Barr’s criticism last night ( see earlier .
To Summarise: I didn’t interfere in the Roger Stone case, but I could have if I wanted to, and if I had, that would have been fine. But I didn’t.
Donald J. Trump (@ realDonaldTrump) “The President has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case. ” A.G. Barr This doesn’t mean that I do not have, as President, the legal right to do so, I do, but I have so far chosen not to! (February) , ()
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