Dems show their bias
Upset over Barr medling, but were silent in the past
If Democrats didn’t have double standards they’d have no standards at all.
Just look at the way they’re viciously attacking Attorney General Bill Barr over the Justice Department’s intervention in the extremely harsh sentencing recommendation of Roger Stone, a longtime associate of the president. Partisan prosecutors handling the case — three of whom served on the “Get Trump” special counsel Russia investigation — recommended a seven- to nine-year prison sentence for Stone for lying and alleged witness tampering.
In no way do the charges justify such a severe jail sentence — years more than a rapist would get — or even a bank robber.
The DOJ was absolutely justified to intervene in the political persecution of Stone by not only partisan prosecutors but, as we now know, one of the lead jurors as well. That juror, the jury’s foreperson, no less, has been revealed in numerous social media posts as a Trump foe, posting against the president — and his supporters. She should never have been allowed to serve on the jury, a miscarriage of justice now prompting Stone’s lawyers to demand a new trial.
But none of that stopped over a thousand former Justice Department employees and other “hate Trump” Democrats including Sen. Elizabeth Warren from going after Barr over recommending a lighter sentence for Stone.
Warren trashed Barr during a recent CNN interview and tweeted, “Congress must act immediately to rein in our lawless Attorney General. Barr should resign or face impeachment. And Congress should use spending power to defund the AG’s authority to interfere with anything that affects Trump, his friends, or his elections.”
Many on the left and in the #FakeNews media also lambasted the president for tweeting about the case and accused him of interfering in a criminal trial. But of course none of them cried foul when former President Barack Obama or his then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch interfered in legal matters concerning their friends and associates.
Take the 2016 FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s rogue emails. Obama didn’t sit on the sidelines, nor did Lynch. Far from it. The former president made a public statement saying Clinton may have made “a mistake” but her mishandling of classified information didn’t threaten national security. Undoubtedly that sent a loud signal to FBI officials to go easy on his pal Hillary.
Lynch also met with former President Bill Clinton on the tarmac days before his wife’s FBI interview. Lynch also instructed James Comey the former FBI director, not to refer to Clinton’s email investigation as a criminal “investigation” but rather as a “matter” to minimize her potential criminal exposure amid the 2016 presidential election.
Why no “outrage” from Sen. Warren and others back then?