Will Bill Barr Go to Jail When This Is All Done?

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🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Attorney General Bill Barr was in on Trump’s scheme to bribe and lean on Ukraine’s president. He let his boss’ criminal cronies off the hook. But the worst part, former DOJ prosecutor Glenn Kirschner says, was Barr’s crackdown in Lafayette Square on people just expressing their First Amendment rights. And if Barr isn’t under criminal investigation in 2021 for that, he tells Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast, then “shame on us.” It’s part of a jam-packed episode of The New Abnormal. Rachel Bitecofer of the Niskansen Center for Public Policy, joined Molly and Rick to present her forecast for this November. Of course, the dynamic duo tackle the ultimate fuckery that is the Donald Trump White House, including the president “playing footsie” with Confederate flag truthers, his Twitter-gasm over his Tulsa rally and how the “Bitch Boy” and his minions did the seeming impossible: became even more racist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi folks, it's Rick Wilson and welcome to the Daily Beasts, the new abnormal.
0:04.6	Hi, I'm Molly Zhangfast, a left-wing pundit and editor at large at the Daily Beast.
0:09.7	I'm also an editor at the Daily Beast, a former Republican political strategist, best-selling
0:14.1	author and full-time troublemaker.
0:16.1	We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media,
0:19.9	politics, business and science that help make what's happening in the country and the world
0:24.9	clear.
0:25.9	We try to keep Rick to the minimum number of F-bombs and try to keep our kids, pets and
0:31.8	other wildlife sounds from invading our respective bunkers.
0:35.0	Rick Wilson, what do you want to talk about today?
0:37.0	I don't know Molly, what about the blazing racist hellscape that is our country?
0:40.5	Can we talk about Juneteenth and Tulsa?
0:43.6	You mean the Trump administration's deliberate provocation?
0:46.9	At least that's how I and a lot of other people are reading it?
0:49.6	So Trump is going to give his first rally since coronavirus and he's planned to do it
0:56.7	on the day, June 19th, that was the end of slavery, right?
1:03.1	So he's going to do it in the place that is the home of the largest massacre of African-American
1:07.9	ever, Tulsa.
1:09.6	So I think the really important thing here is that they released the announcement that they
1:15.4	were going to go to Tulsa.
1:16.8	On the same day, Donald Trump went on one of his Twitter gasms, defending the names of
1:22.5	military facilities around the country that are named after Confederate generals and Confederate
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