{"id":46735,"date":"2020-09-14T14:31:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T21:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46735"},"modified":"2020-09-14T14:31:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T21:31:48","slug":"wannabe-dictator-trump-orders-ag-barr-to-prosecute-clinton-for-following-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46735","title":{"rendered":"Wannabe Dictator Trump Orders AG Barr to Prosecute Clinton for Following the Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always to easy to see when Donald Trump is freaking out over some perceived slight or the unforgivable offense of someone daring to tell the truth about him. If he were a poker player his <em>&#8220;tell&#8221;<\/em> would be throwing a tantrum and overturning the table. He has the emotional response mechanism of a four year old, if that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-barr-red.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Bill Barr\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43555\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning Trump overturned the figurative table in a frantic tweetstorm that was clearly intended to deflect from some of the more serious news stories of the past week. For instance, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/338sP3U\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Woodward&#8217;s new book, Rage<\/a><\/strong>, exposed Trump for having known just how deadly the coronavirus is, but <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46642\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">lying about it to the American people<\/a><\/strong>. An <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2020\/09\/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers\/615997\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">article in The Atlantic<\/a><\/strong> revealed Trump&#8217;s disregard for America&#8217;s war dead as <em>&#8220;losers&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;suckers.&#8221;<\/em> And his polling versus Joe Biden continues to decline, as does <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/09\/09\/biden-outraised-trump-150-million-410832\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">his fundraising<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, Trump needed a distraction to avoid having to deal with these problems. So he reached back into his bag of golden oldies and pulled out a moldy conspiracy theory regarding cell phones used by Hillary Clinton and others in the Obama administration. The nightmare tale that Trump unfolded suggests that these folks conspired to hide damning evidence of some imaginary crimes by deleting the contents of their phones before returning them to the government inventory. Trump posted eight tweets on this subject. The substance of his commentary consisted of profound remarks like <em>&#8220;Action must be taken!,&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;DOJ?,&#8221;<\/em> and this classic that also trivializes a threat to lynch a black NASCAR driver:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pathetic! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pncz3G0hg3\">https:\/\/t.co\/pncz3G0hg3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1305494850943418368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump has tweeted and spoken about these bogus allegations dozens of times in recent weeks. And he has been helped by Sean Hannity of Fox News, who hosted Trump&#8217;s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, Friday night to disseminate the same falsehoods <em>(video below)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, absolutely no credibility to these charges. In fact, Clinton, and every other government employee, are actually required to wipe the contents off of their phones and other electronic devices, or physically destroy them, as a security precaution to prevent confidential information from being exposed. A State Department official <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/09\/actually-clinton-destroyed-phones-better\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">explained this directive to Wired Magazine<\/a><\/strong> in 2016, saying that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8216;&#8230;department security policies mandate that all electronic devices are cleared of sensitive or classified information prior to reuse or disposal.&#8217; Some devices are wiped and reused, in other words, while others are destroyed as part of the recycling process.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Trump&#8217;s purported scandal is that Clinton et al are following the rules. Nevertheless, Trump is improperly pressuring his Attorney Genuflect, Bill Barr to <em>&#8220;take action&#8221;<\/em> against his political foes. And all because of this fictional <em>&#8220;crime&#8221;<\/em> that is really just another example of Trump&#8217;s flaming ignorance of the government that he pretends to lead. And Barr is likely to follow those orders, just as he has with regard to dropping charges against Michael Flynn, and siccing his <em>&#8220;special&#8221;<\/em> prosecutor on Joe Biden. Fortunately, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46720\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the American people are not falling for it<\/a><\/strong>, and Trump is just digging himself into an ever deeper hole.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PressSec<\/a> seems VERY upset that people who worked on a sensitive investigation would, at the conclusion of that investigation, ensured that their issued phones did not contain any confidential data before handing them over to whatever random IT\/HR people collected them. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Cxu5Vyec1\">pic.twitter.com\/1Cxu5Vyec1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewFeinberg\/status\/1304596503206465541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always to easy to see when Donald Trump is freaking out over some perceived slight or the unforgivable offense of someone daring to tell the truth about him. If he were a poker player his &#8220;tell&#8221; would be throwing a tantrum and overturning the table. He has the emotional response mechanism of a four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,1200],"tags":[554,33,31,1375,129,1364],"class_list":["post-46735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-kayleigh-mcenany","tag-sean-hannity","tag-william-barr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-barr-red.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-c9N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55125,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55125","url_meta":{"origin":46735,"position":0},"title":"HUH? 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