Bill Barr Shuts Down Dianne Feinstein For Saying Trump’s Guilty (Video)

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Attorney General William Barr and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein got into a heated exchange over Trump and Barr’s decision to fully exonerate him.

Barr quickly shut down Dianne’s line of questioning and turned her gotcha question around on her. Look, the media is in full hysterical mode over this Mueller report - they will not accept Trump is innocent, so they must create new conspiracies to appease their base.

Dianne started saying: “Does existing law prohibit efforts to get a witness to lie to say something the witness believes is false?

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Barr: Yes. Lie to the government, yes.

Feinstein: And what law is that?

Barr: Obstruction statutes.

Feinstein: The obstruction statute. And you don’t have it, I guess, before you?

Barr: Well, I’m not sure which one they are referring to here — it was probably, 1512 C2.

Feinstein: So, these things in effect constitute obstruction.

Barr: Well you are talking in general terms.

Feinstein: I am talking about specifically — yes, you are correct in a sense, that the special counsel in his report found substantial evidence that the President tried to change McGahn’s account in order to prevent — and this is a quote — further scrutiny of the President toward the investigation. End quote. The special counsel also found McGahn is a credible witness with no motives to lie or exaggerate. So what I am asking you, then, is that a credible charge, under the obstruction statute?

Barr: We felt that that episode, the government would not be able to establish obstruction. The — if you go back and if you look at the episode where McGahn — the President gave McGahn an obstruction — an instruction, McGahn’s version of that is quite clear, and each time he gave it, which is that the instruction said, go to Rosenstein, raise the issue of conflict of interest, and Mueller has to go because of this conflict of interest. So there is no question that that — that the, whatever instruction was given, McGahn had to do with conflict — with Mueller’s conflict of interest.

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