![]() The indictment accuses Trump of falsifying business records in relation to the hush-money payments. “Legally from what I understand it’s a pathetically weak case,” he said. “Politically it could be damaging I think to the Republican Party simply because its a no-lose situation for the Democrats,” as much of the public focus will return to Trump amid his legal foes. “It’s a disgrace if it turns out to be what we think it is,” he said. He noted that though the indictment is currently sealed, it appears to be the “ archetypical abuse of the prosecutorial function to engage in a political hit job.” Meanwhile at the Ideas Summit on Friday, Barr also condemned Trump’s recent indictment by a Manhattan grand jury. attorneys and the FBI to meet with local officials across the country to discuss “strategies for addressing threats” against school officials and teachers. The letter characterized parents who protest progressive curricula as potential “domestic terrorists” and requested federal help.Īttorney General Garland responded by issuing a memorandum telling U.S. The National School Boards Association referenced Smith’s arrest among a list of what it called a trend of violence and threats against school officials in a letter to President Biden in September 2021. He was convicted of disorderly conduct after being arrested during a heated debate over bathroom policy at a school-board meeting. Smith’s daughter was sexually assaulted in a Loudoun County, Va., high school bathroom. Representative Chip Roy (R., Texas) said at the time that the panel will go “after the weaponization of the government, the F.B.I., the intel agencies, D.H.S., all of them that have been, you know, labeling Scott Smith a domestic terrorist.” ![]() ![]() He said the FBI needs to return to holding applicants for bureau positions to a higher standard, saying the physical requirement have been lowered to two-thirds of what they used to be.īarr’s comments come after the Republican-controlled House formed a Judiciary subcommittee on the “weaponization of the federal government,” including law-enforcement and national-security agencies, back in January. ![]() “Some people want to burn it down and start it up again - I’m not sure I’d go that far,” he said, but suggested the bureau could separate the intel side from the law enforcement side as a “catalyst for shaking up the institution” and “reclaiming some of the culture.” Bush and President Donald Trump, suggested the FBI should undergo structural change. There’s “no discipline in the organization,” Barr said, adding that people are “risk-averse because they’re afraid of the woke mob attacking them.”īarr, who served as the attorney general under President George H.W. Employees are focused on moving onto their next job so they don’t want to “rock the boat.” However, part of the problem at the bureau is “ careerism among middle management,” he said. ![]()
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