Scarborough Hammers Barr For ‘Laughing’ About ‘Breaking The Law’

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Attorney General William Barr has made light of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s recommendation that he be held in contempt at least twice (that we know of).

During a farewell event for former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein earlier this month, Barr joked that he set a “record” for how quickly an attorney general had been held in contempt. On Wednesday, Barr reportedly approached House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and asked her if she brought “your handcuffs.”

And “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough isn’t having it.

“Actually, he’s laughing about breaking the law,” Scarborough said. “He’s laughing about being held in contempt of Congress. The White House is laughing. The attorney general is laughing about them breaking the law that requires the president of the United States, the IRS, to turn over the president’s tax returns to the Ways and Means committee. And, Mika, of course he committed perjury not just once but most likely twice while testifying before the United States House of Representatives and the Senate and he’s laughing about it.”

Pelosi has been vague about if or when she intends to bring a vote to hold Barr in contempt to the House floor, but the House Judiciary Committee remains in a gridlock with the White House over the committee’s demands to view the unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

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  1. Barr laughed about it because he knows he’s bulletproof. He won’t have to testify, he won’t be held accountable.

    That’s where we are, folks. I appreciate Nadler and all the others that are trying to do something about it, but it will all come to naught unless the subpoenas get some teeth in them. The Dems keep moving the goalposts.

    It’s time to kick ass and take names.

  2. I think Walter Dellinger’s point, that the focus on seeing the materials beneath the redactions distracts from the report’s descriptions of crimes in plain sight, is an important one. I am not sure that this was a conscious strategy, but creating controversies around things like redactions and negotiations around conditions for testimony have completely taken the oxygen away from media attention to the campaign and the deeds of the president.

  3. It will be hard to blame the criminals in the GOP for killing American Democracy, when in fact it’s Nancy Pelosi who failed to defend it at the moment of crisis.

    Like the scorpion the corrupt republican is following his nature; and the House Leadership’s inaction speaks to theirs.

  4. Avatar for sfaw sfaw says:

    Thanks for your inciteful and oh-so-helpful comment of stunning something-or-other.

    BernOrBust-er or one of Vladi’s elves? I can’t decide which you are.

    Moron.

  5. Avatar for sfaw sfaw says:

    Lock Barr up.

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