Now It’s William Barr: When Will Christians And Conservatives Stop Making Excuses For Donald Trump?
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Now It’s William Barr: When Will Christians And Conservatives Stop Making Excuses For Donald Trump?
By Chuck Baldwin
January 24, 2019
January 24, 2019
Okay, we all know how awful Hillary Clinton is. We all know that Donald
Trump said all the right things (well, many of the right things) on the
campaign trail. We all know—at least believed—that Trump was not an
establishment insider. We all know that Trump promised to “drain the
swamp,” dramatically reduce America’s out-of-control deficit spending,
protect the Second Amendment, get America out of its endless foreign
wars, terminate taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, overturn Roe v
Wade and build a wall on our southern border—that Mexico would pay
for—in order to stop the flow of illegal immigration into America.
Now, after two full years of a Donald Trump administration in which he
enjoyed both houses of Congress being held by fellow Republicans, we all
know (and if we don’t, it’s because we don’t WANT to know) that none of
the above has happened. Yet, Christians and conservatives by the
millions continue to make excuses for this faker.
First, a brief comment about the border wall: All of the drama regarding
a partial government shutdown and incessant public theater by actors
from both political parties is quite nauseating. Republicans had control
of both houses of Congress and the White House for two years. Why
wasn’t money appropriated for the wall then? Why was there no government
shutdown over the lack of funding for the border wall then? Why wait
until Democrats take over the House to shut down (partially) the federal
government and threaten to declare a State of National Emergency?
Forgive me, but this stinks to high heaven. This is nothing but smoke
and mirrors. All of the high profile theatrics over the border wall is
the biggest distraction to envelop our country in quite a spell. While
everyone is fighting over the wall, some very serious attacks against
our liberties are being waged almost without notice. And all of the
hullabaloo over the wall is completely covering up Trump’s failure to
carry out the rest of his campaign promises—and the fact that Trump
himself has often worked in direct opposition to many of his campaign
promises.
Secondly, his rhetoric notwithstanding, President Trump has NOT drawn
down America’s involvement in endless foreign wars. Trump’s promise to
bring U.S. forces home from Syria is so much hot air. Trump’s
“immediate” withdrawal order is now mired in an indefinite time
schedule. In other words, there is no time schedule. Our troops that are
still fighting in Syria are not only still based in Syria, but they are
also still using bases in Iraq as launching pads for military
excursions into Syria. Of course, Trump promised that the U.S. bases in
Iraq were not going anywhere—and that’s one promise he will keep.
Our troops are still fighting endless wars in Afghanistan and Somalia.
In fact, Trump has shoved record military spending through Congress and
has done nothing to reduce America’s global military presence (U.S.
troops are stationed in over 160 countries, which
equates to 95% of the world’s foreign military bases). America is as
much the global cop as it was when Trump was elected. No, that’s not
quite true: We are MUCH MORE the global cop than when Trump was elected,
as Trump has expanded our military presence in Eastern Europe to
unprecedented levels—levels not even seen during the Cold War.
Thirdly, as we have just passed the 46th anniversary of the ignoble Roe v
Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion-on-demand nationwide,
unborn children continue to be legally murdered—in spite of the fact
that Donald Trump was President and Republicans controlled both houses
of Congress during the past two years. All of Trump’s “pro-life”
rhetoric hasn’t saved the life of a single unborn baby. Since Trump was
elected, over 2 million unborn children have been mercilessly murdered
in the wombs of their mothers—with the complete approbation of a
Republican-led federal government.
The GOP controlled the entire federal government for 4.6 years of G.W.
Bush's eight years in office—and they controlled the entire federal
government for the past two years of Donald Trump’s presidency. They did
NOTHING about Roe v Wade under Bush, and they have done NOTHING about
Roe v Wade under Trump. These phony pro-life GOP congressmen and
senators haven't even defunded America's largest abortion provider,
Planned Parenthood.
Fourthly, as to ending the federal government’s extravagant spending habits, what a crock! During 8 years of a Republican majority in the House of Representatives, the federal debt INCREASED $7.9 trillion. And
a Trump presidency did nothing to reduce Washington’s out-of-control
spending—even with Republicans in control of both houses of Congress.
Fifthly, what about Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp”? This is one of
Trump’s biggest lies of all. Trump never intended to drain the swamp.
From the outset of his presidency, he began appointing mostly CFR
globalists, neocons, warmongers, Zionists, corporate elitists and
corrupt government insiders to his administration. And he hasn’t
stopped.
I am absolutely sick and tired of hearing my conservative Christian
brethren say things like, “Trump is trying his best, but he’s getting no
help from his cabinet and staff.” Well, DUH! Who picked his cabinet and
staff? Trump did.
Then they say things like, “Trump doesn’t really understand these
issues; he really wants to do right, but he’s getting bad advice.” BARF!
If he didn’t understand the issues, he’s had two full years as
President of the United States to get caught up. But he continues to
make the same unconstitutional, big-government, warmongering decisions
over and over again. The excuse that “he wants to do right, but is
getting bad advice” just doesn’t wash anymore. It’s time for Trump’s
supporters to wake up and realize that Donald Trump is a great big boy,
not a little kid, and is fully capable of thinking for himself.
Donald Trump knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s known exactly what he’s
been doing from day number one. He is the consummate con man. He is a
charlatan. He is a double-tongued pretender. He has filled the executive
branch of the federal government with the same crooks as presidents
before him.
And now Trump’s selection of William Barr as America’s next attorney general is the final straw. There can be NO MORE DOUBT.
William Barr is the swamp creature’s Swamp Creature. He is the
personification of all of the evil and wickedness that has gone on in
Washington, D.C., during the past 30 years. Name the act of criminality,
cover-up or act of chicanery that has taken place in Washington D.C.,
over the last 30 years, and William Barr is probably neck deep in it.
*Barr was a full-time CIA operative, recruited by Langley out of high
school, starting in 1971. Barr’s youth career goal was to head the CIA.
*CIA operative assigned to the China directorate, where he became close
to powerful CIA operative George H.W. Bush, whose accomplishments
already included the CIA/Cuba Bay of Pigs, Asia CIA operations (Vietnam
War, Golden Triangle narcotics), Nixon foreign policy (Henry Kissinger),
and the Watergate operation.
*When George H.W. Bush became CIA Director in 1976, Barr joined the
CIA’s “legal office” and Bush’s inner circle, and worked alongside
Bush’s longtime CIA enforcers Theodore “Ted” Shackley, Felix Rodriguez,
Thomas Clines, and others, several of whom were likely involved with the
Bay of Pigs/John F. Kennedy assassination, and numerous southeast Asian
operations, from the Phoenix Program to Golden Triangle
narco-trafficking.
*Barr stonewalled and destroyed the Church Committee investigations into CIA abuses.
*Barr stonewalled and stopped inquiries in the CIA bombing assassination of Chilean opposition leader Orlando Letelier.
*Barr joined George H.W. Bush’s legal/intelligence team during Bush’s
vice presidency (under President Ronald Reagan). Rose from assistant
attorney general to Chief Legal Counsel to attorney general (1991)
during the Bush 41 presidency.
*Barr was a key player in the Iran-Contra operation, if not the most
important member of the apparatus, simultaneously managing the operation
while also “fixing” the legal end, ensuring that all of the operatives
could do their jobs without fear of exposure or arrest.
*In his attorney general confirmation, Barr vowed to “attack criminal
organizations,” drug smugglers and money launderers. It was all hot air:
as AG, Barr would preserve, protect, cover up, and nurture the
apparatus that he helped create, and use Justice Department power to
escape punishment.
*Barr stonewalled and stopped investigations into all Bush/Clinton and
CIA crimes, including BCCI and BNL CIA drug banking, the theft of
Inslaw/PROMIS software, and all crimes of state committed by Bush.
*Barr provided legal cover for Bush’s illegal foreign policy and war crimes.
*Barr left Washington, and went through the “rotating door” to the
corporate world, where he took on numerous directorships and counsel
positions for major companies. In 2007 and again from 2017, Barr was
counsel for politically connected international law firm Kirkland & Ellis.
Among its other notable attorneys and alumni are Kenneth Starr, John
Bolton, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and numerous Trump
administration attorneys. K&E’s clients include sex
trafficker/pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital.
If all of this isn’t bad enough, William Bar is a co-conspirator in the murders of Vicki and Sammy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. James Bovard tells the story:
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Attorney General nominee
William Barr have focused heavily on Barr’s views on Special Counsel
Robert Mueller. But nobody is asking about Barr’s legal crusade for
blanket immunity for federal agents who killed American citizens.
Barr received a routine questionnaire from the Judiciary Committee
asking him to disclose his past work including pro bono activities
“serving the disadvantaged.” The “disadvantaged” that Barr spent the
most time helping was an FBI agent who slayed an Idaho mother holding
her baby in 1992. Barr spent two weeks organizing former Attorneys General and
others to support “an FBI sniper in defending against criminal charges
in connection with the Ruby Ridge incident.” Barr also “assisted in
framing legal arguments advanced… in the district court and the
subsequent appeal to the Ninth Circuit,” he told the committee.
That charitable work (for an FBI agent who already had a federally paid
law firm defending him) helped tamp down one of the biggest scandals
during Barr’s time as Attorney General from 1991 to early 1993. Barr was
responsible for both the U.S. Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, two federal agencies whose misconduct at Ruby Ridge “helped to weaken the bond of trust that
must exist between ordinary Americans and our law enforcement
agencies,” according to a 1995 Senate Judiciary Committee report.
After Randy Weaver, an outspoken white separatist living on a
mountaintop in northern Idaho, was entrapped by an undercover federal
agent, U.S. marshals trespassed on Weaver’s land and killed his
14-year-old son, Sammy [by shooting him in the back]. The following day,
FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi killed his wife, Vicki, as she was standing in
the cabin doorway [holding her baby in her arms]. Horiuchi had
previously shot Randy Weaver in the back after he stepped out of the
cabin. The suspects were never given a warning or a chance to surrender
and had taken no action against FBI agents. Weaver survived.
After an Idaho jury found Weaver not guilty on almost all charges,
federal judge Edward Lodge slammed the Justice Department and FBI for
concealing evidence and showing “a callous disregard for the rights of the defendants and the interests of justice.” A Justice Department internal investigation compiled a 542-page report detailing
federal misconduct and coverups in the case and suggested criminal
charges against FBI officials involved in Ruby Ridge.
Barr told the New York Times in 1993 that he was not directly involved in the Ruby Ridge operation. Two years later, the Washington Post revealed that
“top officials of the Bush Justice Department had at least 20 [phone]
contacts concerning Ruby Ridge in the 24 hours before Vicki Weaver was
shot,” including two calls involving Barr.
In January 1995, FBI director Louis Freeh announced wrist slaps for the
FBI officials involved, including his friend Larry Potts, who supervised
the operation from headquarters and who approved the
shoot-without-provocation orders that “contravened the constitution of
the United States,” according to the Justice Department internal report.
When Attorney General Janet Reno later nominated Potts for deputy
director of the FBI, top newspapers and members of Congress protested,
but Barr told the New York Times that his friend Potts “was deliberate and careful, and I
developed a great deal of confidence in his judgment… I can’t think of
enough good things to say about him.” A few months later, the FBI suspended Potts after suspected perjury regarding Ruby Ridge. (Potts was not charged and retired two years later.)
The Justice Department paid $3 million to settle a wrongful death
lawsuit from the Weaver family. But when Boundary County, Idaho filed
criminal charges against Horiuchi, Barr sprang to action seeking
immunity for FBI snipers. He spearheaded efforts to sway the court to
dismiss all charges because holding a sniper liable would “severely undermine, if not cripple, the ability of future attorneys general to rely on such specialized units in moments of crisis such as hostage taking and terrorist acts.”
When the Justice Department won an initial appeals court victory in the
case in 2000, federal judge Alex Kozinski warned in a dissent of a new James Bond “007 standard for the use of deadly force” against
American citizens. The same court reversed that decision the following
year. Kozinski, writing for the majority, declared: “A group of FBI agents formulated rules ofengagement
that permitted their colleagues to hide in the bushes and gun down men
who posed no immediate threat. Such wartime rules are patently
unconstitutional for a police action.”
Does William Barr still endorse “wartime rules” and a “007 standard”
that absolve federal agents for questionable shootings of Americans?
Does Barr consider “illegal government killings” to be an oxymoron?
Best of all, can Barr explain to us his understanding of the phrase
“government under the law”?
See also this report in The American Conservative.
In addition, as far as William Barr is concerned, the Fourth Amendment
does not even exist. Senator Rand Paul notes that Barr "has been a big
supporter of the PATRIOT Act, which lowered the standard for spying on
Americans, and he even went so far as to say the PATRIOT Act was pretty
good — we should go much further."
Rand also said that Barr is a “big fan” of seizing people’s property
through civil asset forfeiture. Rand continued by saying that “the first
things I’ve learned about him [Barr] being for more surveillance of
Americans is very, very troubling.”
Furthermore (yes, there is more), William Barr told liberal gun grabber
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in his senate confirmation hearing for
becoming America’s next attorney general that he fully intends to push
forward with Donald Trump’s Hitlerian “take the guns first, go through
due process second” gun confiscation laws, also known as “red flag”
laws. And remember: It was Donald Trump, not Barack Obama, who gave us
more gun control by outlawing “bump stocks.”
Yep! The promise to protect the Second Amendment is another promise Trump has broken (that’s Number Six).
I have written previously about these Stalinesque “red flag” gun confiscation laws. And
I will continue to warn people about these unconstitutional, draconian
“red flag” laws as long as they continue to pose a threat to our
liberties.
Of course, not only are most of the individual states currently in the
process of considering “red flag” gun confiscation laws (13 states have
already passed them), Republican Senator Marco Rubio (FL) has also introduced a national “red flag” law.
“Red flag” gun confiscation laws are the same kind of laws that were
used to confiscate the weapons of undesirables (meaning anyone the state
doesn’t like) in Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China—and in
every despotic nation of the world.
And here is William Barr’s statement that “red flag” gun confiscation laws are the “single most important thing” government can do regarding gun control.
Internet blogger and longtime supporter of Donald Trump, Carl F. Worden, recently wrote this:
Now I can understand how Trump fell for the wrongful nominations of
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher
Wray. That was early-on in Trump's presidency and Trump had no way of
knowing those he trusted for advice were in fact Deep State maggots
intent on destroying his presidency. But this is a solid two years into
Trump's first term, and it is more than obvious that Barr will not be a
team player for Trump -- or us! In fact, Barr has a very troubling
record on Second Amendment issues.
At this time, I have no confidence left in Donald J. Trump. He is
either a complete fool, or he knows exactly what he's doing, and either
way he's not fit to represent me anymore.
No more excuses, Mr. Trump!
Bravo, Carl!
Sadly, a host of Trump’s supporters continue to be bamboozled by the
elaborate psyops misinformation (translated: propaganda) entity known
as QAnon,
which keeps reassuring the Trump faithful that he is covertly waging
war against the globalist insiders and that any day now the curtain is
going to collapse on the swamp creatures. It’s all a hoax to give Trump
cover—and more time.
If the nomination of William Barr as America’s next “Top Cop” doesn’t
awaken the “Always Trumpers,” there is absolutely no hope for them. Even
worse is the fact that the longer Christians and conservatives continue
to make excuses for Trump’s lies and deceptions, there is less and less
hope for America.
© Chuck Baldwin
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