Joe Biden is now POTUS
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He who lives by the sword dies by the sword. Between Barr and Trump, they neutered
the Special Counsel. Barr was hired to hurry Mueller to a finish and to cull the extent
of his report. If he thinks Durham will be able to hound Biden at will, he should remember
that he set a precedent on how to nullify the work of a special counsel. The next Attorney
General will come in and demand Durham show his progress. Durham will show that he has
been eating free money and not found anything. The AG will ask Durham to turn in his
report, bury it in the vaults of the DOJ, and let Durham go. At the same time, the AG will
release the unredacted Mueller Report showing that Trump was guilty of crimes and charge
Barr for obscuring them...
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I doubt it. Barr knows there is nothing there. This is just to placate Trump. As soon as Biden is in the WH this will get wrapped up as nothing found.
This is for placating Trump, but if Barr had intended on relieving
Durham of his assignment, I doubt that he have given him the
powers of special counsel. Barr is hoping that Durham hounds
Biden on the Russia probe for some time. However, the Special
Counsel was defanged by Barr. That precedent will be the modus
operandus of the new AG, and Durham wont have too much of
an operation once the new guy is in charge. His work will be all
examined and found bereft value or progress. It will be summarily'
terminated together with its principal author, Durham himself.
Waste of time. Trump knows that he lost and there is no way he can reverse the loss.
Appearing to try, is however extremely lucrative to him personally, and that is why he
will not stop, as long that that is the case.
It's to placate Trump. This report was supposed to come out before the election. There was nothing bad to report. So now they changed the focus and elevated his title. Biden wouldn't interfere with an investigation anyway. I don't know how much say the next AG would have but this is just Barr giving Trump a bone to chew on so he keeps hope alive in his deranged lil brain.
and Trump will throw them bones right back in Barr's face because he didn't make up that this election was fraudulent.
THE PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION
A construction crew working on the platform for Biden’s inauguration next month.Doug Mills/The New York Times
President-elect Joe Biden’s picks for economic advisers suggest his administration will focus on workers and organized labor, including pushes for a higher minimum wage and a stronger social safety net. It’s unclear how much Biden can accomplish if Republicans keep a Senate majority after the Georgia runoff elections in January.
Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris received their first President’s Daily Brief, a top-level intelligence report. Previous incoming presidents received their first only days after the election.
President Trump has raised about $170 million since Election Day, as his campaign has solicited donations for an “Election Defense Fund.” The cash could also fund his next political move.
Election officials certified Biden’s wins in Arizona and Wisconsin despite the Trump campaign’s efforts to overturn the results. And Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, rejected Trump’s calls for him to invalidate mail ballots.
A construction crew working on the platform for Biden’s inauguration next month.Doug Mills/The New York Times
President-elect Joe Biden’s picks for economic advisers suggest his administration will focus on workers and organized labor, including pushes for a higher minimum wage and a stronger social safety net. It’s unclear how much Biden can accomplish if Republicans keep a Senate majority after the Georgia runoff elections in January.
Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris received their first President’s Daily Brief, a top-level intelligence report. Previous incoming presidents received their first only days after the election.
President Trump has raised about $170 million since Election Day, as his campaign has solicited donations for an “Election Defense Fund.” The cash could also fund his next political move.
Election officials certified Biden’s wins in Arizona and Wisconsin despite the Trump campaign’s efforts to overturn the results. And Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, rejected Trump’s calls for him to invalidate mail ballots.
There's a reason this didn't come out until today, even though it was enacted in Oct. It's to counteract the no fraud statement and make it seem like Barr is still working against his enemies.
There was another investigation before this that only found misconduct by one agent. Remember Barr was dragging his feet over the Durham appointment when the first one was basically a bust and Trump wasn't satisfied. Barr said he would release the report before the election, but I'm starting to think that was still for Trump's benefit. Don't get me wrong, I think Barr is still on his side, but Trump was asking them to fabricate evidence that didn't exist, so part of his actions were just a distraction.
Biden Pick for Treasury’s No. 2, a Moderate Voice, Breaks Racial Barrier
www.nytimes.com
WASHINGTON — Speaking at a Washington think tank in the summer of 2016, Adewale Adeyemo, President Barack Obama’s international economics adviser, warned about the perils of protectionism, explained how a growing Chinese economy was good for the world and talked up the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal he helped negotiate that Democrats ultimately rejected.
Four years later, such talk might sound out of touch with a Democratic Party that has become even more hawkish on China and increasingly wary of sprawling international trade deals. But that was not a concern for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., who this week tapped Mr. Adeyemo to be deputy Treasury secretary, solidifying his team with another stalwart veteran of the Obama administration who would bring center-left economic ideas, deep experience and diversity to Mr. Biden’s top ranks.
Like many of Mr. Biden’s hires so far, Mr. Adeyemo, who goes by Wally, brings a mainstream policy perspective with a background that breaks barriers. Mr. Adeyemo would be part of a history-making duo at Treasury: He would be the first Black deputy at the Treasury, serving with the first female secretary, Janet L. Yellen.
And like some of Mr. Biden’s picks, the selection of Mr. Adeyemo is coming under scrutiny from the left over his private-sector work. In 2017, after the Trump administration took over, Mr. Adeyemo went to work for BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, as a senior adviser and interim chief of staff to Larry Fink, its chief executive. He left last year to become president of the Obama Foundation, where he managed day-to-day operations and carried out its strategic plan.
If confirmed, Mr. Adeyemo will have risen to the Treasury’s No. 2 spot from humble beginnings. Born in Nigeria, he emigrated with his parents to the United States when he was a baby and settled in Southern California outside Los Angeles. His father was a teacher, his mother a nurse. Mr. Adeyemo, 39, and his younger brother and sister grew up sharing a room in a two-bedroom apartment.
As he was introduced by Mr. Biden on Tuesday, Mr. Adeyemo talked about his desire to reduce inequality in the United States and increase the fortunes of the middle class. He described his roots growing up in a state that was hit hard by the 2008 financial crisis.
“In California’s Inland Empire, where I had grown up in a working-class neighborhood, the Great Recession hit us hard,” he said. “We were one of the foreclosure capitals of the United States. The pain of this was real for me.”
Mr. Adeyemo attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he was the president of the students’ association, and went on to get a law degree from Yale. His interest in policy percolating, he worked on the presidential campaigns of John Kerry, John Edwards and Mr. Obama.
Mr. Adeyemo joined the Treasury Department in 2009, working as deputy executive secretary to Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. Just over a year later, he was dispatched to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to help get the new agency up and running. There, he worked as chief of staff for Elizabeth Warren, now a senator from Massachusetts, who had come up with the idea for the consumer bureau and was picked by Mr. Obama to oversee the agency’s establishment.
The ability to toggle between the likes of Mr. Geithner and Ms. Warren was an early sign of Mr. Adeyemo’s knack for straddling the moderate and progressive wings of the Democratic Party’s policymaking machine. At his 2015 confirmation hearing to be the Treasury’s assistant secretary for international markets and development, Ms. Warren offered effusive praise.
“He remembers who he grew up with, and he tries every day to make this a better country,” said Ms. Warren, who became one of the most prominent progressives within the Democratic Party. A spokeswoman said Ms. Warren would support Mr. Adeyemo’s nomination as deputy secretary.
Mr. Adeyemo ultimately became deputy chief of staff at the Treasury, serving under Jacob J. Lew. In that role, he was immersed in many issues including sanctions and international trade. During the negotiations over the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership, Mr. Adeyemo was focused on brokering a deal over currency provisions in the agreement’s foreign exchange chapter.
Mr. Lew recalled Mr. Adeyemo’s flying across the world from Asia to Latin America and engaging in economic shuttle diplomacy to broker an agreement that would create greater transparency and enforcement of foreign exchange policy in the deal.
“He put together an approach that frankly has withstood the test of time, even though TPP has not had U.S. participation,” Mr. Lew said in an interview. “It became the model of how currency issues were dealt with in subsequent trade agreements.”
In 2015, Mr. Obama recruited Mr. Adeyemo to the White House to be his international economic adviser on the National Security Council. He represented the president at the Group of 20 and Group of 7 summits and steered the international economic policy agenda across government agencies.
Biden Pick for Treasury’s No. 2, a Moderate Voice, Breaks Racial Barrier (Published 2020)
Adewale Adeyemo’s role in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations and work at BlackRock could complicate his confirmation hearings.
WASHINGTON — Speaking at a Washington think tank in the summer of 2016, Adewale Adeyemo, President Barack Obama’s international economics adviser, warned about the perils of protectionism, explained how a growing Chinese economy was good for the world and talked up the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal he helped negotiate that Democrats ultimately rejected.
Four years later, such talk might sound out of touch with a Democratic Party that has become even more hawkish on China and increasingly wary of sprawling international trade deals. But that was not a concern for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., who this week tapped Mr. Adeyemo to be deputy Treasury secretary, solidifying his team with another stalwart veteran of the Obama administration who would bring center-left economic ideas, deep experience and diversity to Mr. Biden’s top ranks.
Like many of Mr. Biden’s hires so far, Mr. Adeyemo, who goes by Wally, brings a mainstream policy perspective with a background that breaks barriers. Mr. Adeyemo would be part of a history-making duo at Treasury: He would be the first Black deputy at the Treasury, serving with the first female secretary, Janet L. Yellen.
And like some of Mr. Biden’s picks, the selection of Mr. Adeyemo is coming under scrutiny from the left over his private-sector work. In 2017, after the Trump administration took over, Mr. Adeyemo went to work for BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, as a senior adviser and interim chief of staff to Larry Fink, its chief executive. He left last year to become president of the Obama Foundation, where he managed day-to-day operations and carried out its strategic plan.
If confirmed, Mr. Adeyemo will have risen to the Treasury’s No. 2 spot from humble beginnings. Born in Nigeria, he emigrated with his parents to the United States when he was a baby and settled in Southern California outside Los Angeles. His father was a teacher, his mother a nurse. Mr. Adeyemo, 39, and his younger brother and sister grew up sharing a room in a two-bedroom apartment.
As he was introduced by Mr. Biden on Tuesday, Mr. Adeyemo talked about his desire to reduce inequality in the United States and increase the fortunes of the middle class. He described his roots growing up in a state that was hit hard by the 2008 financial crisis.
“In California’s Inland Empire, where I had grown up in a working-class neighborhood, the Great Recession hit us hard,” he said. “We were one of the foreclosure capitals of the United States. The pain of this was real for me.”
Mr. Adeyemo attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he was the president of the students’ association, and went on to get a law degree from Yale. His interest in policy percolating, he worked on the presidential campaigns of John Kerry, John Edwards and Mr. Obama.
Mr. Adeyemo joined the Treasury Department in 2009, working as deputy executive secretary to Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. Just over a year later, he was dispatched to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to help get the new agency up and running. There, he worked as chief of staff for Elizabeth Warren, now a senator from Massachusetts, who had come up with the idea for the consumer bureau and was picked by Mr. Obama to oversee the agency’s establishment.
The ability to toggle between the likes of Mr. Geithner and Ms. Warren was an early sign of Mr. Adeyemo’s knack for straddling the moderate and progressive wings of the Democratic Party’s policymaking machine. At his 2015 confirmation hearing to be the Treasury’s assistant secretary for international markets and development, Ms. Warren offered effusive praise.
“He remembers who he grew up with, and he tries every day to make this a better country,” said Ms. Warren, who became one of the most prominent progressives within the Democratic Party. A spokeswoman said Ms. Warren would support Mr. Adeyemo’s nomination as deputy secretary.
Mr. Adeyemo ultimately became deputy chief of staff at the Treasury, serving under Jacob J. Lew. In that role, he was immersed in many issues including sanctions and international trade. During the negotiations over the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership, Mr. Adeyemo was focused on brokering a deal over currency provisions in the agreement’s foreign exchange chapter.
Mr. Lew recalled Mr. Adeyemo’s flying across the world from Asia to Latin America and engaging in economic shuttle diplomacy to broker an agreement that would create greater transparency and enforcement of foreign exchange policy in the deal.
“He put together an approach that frankly has withstood the test of time, even though TPP has not had U.S. participation,” Mr. Lew said in an interview. “It became the model of how currency issues were dealt with in subsequent trade agreements.”
In 2015, Mr. Obama recruited Mr. Adeyemo to the White House to be his international economic adviser on the National Security Council. He represented the president at the Group of 20 and Group of 7 summits and steered the international economic policy agenda across government agencies.
Damn, them fools don’t even believe Barr and he been riding with Trump in the passenger seat.
I think the Deep State has come to be anyone who will impede trump from instituting a white nationalist state.
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He's not gonna stop saying there was fraud https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/01/...han-170-million-since-election-day/index.html
you can’t script these kind of things in movies. They actually have to play out in life
you can’t script these kind of things in movies. They actually have to play out in life
This shit is the dumbest fucking storyline of all time
I'm betting Kushner or one of Trump's kids was the one who received the money for the pardon. I don't think government officials would do it, but with the quality of the people he hires, who knows.
This dudes level of fucks stay on zero. There has to be some serious donors to Trump to raise that much money in a month. He probably raised more these last few weeks than he did in October.
Could be Rudy also with the recent reports of pardon talk.
There was a really good breakdown of this just now on Joy Reid. There may be an attorney involved. I don't think it's Mike Flynn's attorney or case, because no one would need to be bribed over that, but it's interesting that this comes out right after he was pardoned. The investigation has been over several months. I wonder who it is.
He should have said something at the time. You do not ceded the megaphone
to 30 year old former bar tenders from safe New York districts ...
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Obama: You lose people with 'snappy' slogans like 'defund the police'
Justine Coleman 29 mins ago
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Obama: You lose people with 'snappy' slogans like 'defund the police'
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Former President Obama said political candidates lose support when using "snappy" slogans like "defund the police," in an interview scheduled to be released Wednesday.
© Getty Images Obama: You lose people with 'snappy' slogans like 'defund the police'
Obama told Peter Hamby, who hosts a Snapchat political show "Good Luck America," that those who use the slogan could jeopardize their goals of enacting meaningful reforms for police.
"You lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less likely that you're actually going to get the changes you want done," the former president said in the interview scheduled to go live at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, according to Axios.
"The key is deciding, do you want to actually get something done, or do you want to feel good among the people you already agree with?" Obama added.
The former president's comments align with other top Democrats who have considered the phrase to be damaging to the Democratic Party.
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told NBC News's "Meet the Press" last month that he believed the slogan hurt some Democratic candidates, like Rep. Joe Cunningham (D-S.C.) who lost to Rep.-elect Nancy Mace (R-S.C.).
The phrase was widely used in connection with the racial justice protests over the summer, following George Floyd's death in May after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes, pinning him to the street.
The killing of Floyd, who was Black, triggered calls to defund the police across the country.
The slogan refers to reallocating funding for police departments to social services for minority communities.
Obama participated in the three-part Snapchat interview as part of his press tour for the first volume of his memoir "A Promised Land." Portions of the interview will become available on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, according to Axios.
In the interview, the former president also acknowledged that President Trump made gains among young Black men in the presidential election.
"I think men generally are more susceptible to public figures who act tough, try to project a stereotypical macho style," he said. "I don't think Black men are immune to that any more than white or Hispanic men are."
Obama also promoted the concept that younger voices in politics should be amplified, commenting on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-N.Y.) speaking time at the Democratic National Convention.
"One thing I will say about the Democratic Party is that promoting young people is really important," he said, according to Axios.
"And I think that there have been times where we stick so long with the same old folks and don't make room for new voices," he added.
to 30 year old former bar tenders from safe New York districts ...
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Obama: You lose people with 'snappy' slogans like 'defund the police'
Justine Coleman 29 mins ago
http://a.msn.com/01/en-us/BB1bxscR?ocid=sf
Obama: You lose people with 'snappy' slogans like 'defund the police'
http://a.msn.com/01/en-us/BB1bxscR?ocid=sf
Former President Obama said political candidates lose support when using "snappy" slogans like "defund the police," in an interview scheduled to be released Wednesday.
© Getty Images Obama: You lose people with 'snappy' slogans like 'defund the police'
Obama told Peter Hamby, who hosts a Snapchat political show "Good Luck America," that those who use the slogan could jeopardize their goals of enacting meaningful reforms for police.
"You lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less likely that you're actually going to get the changes you want done," the former president said in the interview scheduled to go live at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, according to Axios.
"The key is deciding, do you want to actually get something done, or do you want to feel good among the people you already agree with?" Obama added.
The former president's comments align with other top Democrats who have considered the phrase to be damaging to the Democratic Party.
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told NBC News's "Meet the Press" last month that he believed the slogan hurt some Democratic candidates, like Rep. Joe Cunningham (D-S.C.) who lost to Rep.-elect Nancy Mace (R-S.C.).
The phrase was widely used in connection with the racial justice protests over the summer, following George Floyd's death in May after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes, pinning him to the street.
The killing of Floyd, who was Black, triggered calls to defund the police across the country.
The slogan refers to reallocating funding for police departments to social services for minority communities.
Obama participated in the three-part Snapchat interview as part of his press tour for the first volume of his memoir "A Promised Land." Portions of the interview will become available on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, according to Axios.
In the interview, the former president also acknowledged that President Trump made gains among young Black men in the presidential election.
"I think men generally are more susceptible to public figures who act tough, try to project a stereotypical macho style," he said. "I don't think Black men are immune to that any more than white or Hispanic men are."
Obama also promoted the concept that younger voices in politics should be amplified, commenting on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-N.Y.) speaking time at the Democratic National Convention.
"One thing I will say about the Democratic Party is that promoting young people is really important," he said, according to Axios.
"And I think that there have been times where we stick so long with the same old folks and don't make room for new voices," he added.
The audacity of Moscow John taking trips to russia on July 4th then tweeting like he was in the US the same day celebrating fireworks
He still going to catch that beat down in NY and multiple other states... Louis DeJoy bitch ass too lmaoo
