Who both talked nice to Trump's face but worked against him behind his back. Remember the US Attorney in PA that wanted to investigate election fraud but was told by Barr to stop? Trump appointed one deep-stater after another, including his first two chiefs of staff. His great weakness, or at least one of them, is his susceptibility to flattery.
Nope, don't remember the US attorney who was told not to investigate fraud. What I saw was
a former FBI agent who ran for governor who claimed he was told not to put out press releases or public statements, and he was to turn over any serious findings to the Pennsylvania AG. Interesting that he didn't bother complaining about these things until he decided to run for governor, not while he still worked for the FBI. Additionally, these orders were made by letter -- a letter sent to all FBI investigators -- so again odd that McSwain is the only one making these types of claims. Yes, Trump claimed McSwain was not allowed to investigate but other FBI agents working with McSwain dispute that, as well as Barr and even McSwain didn't really claim that. And, you'd think if he had such issue with that letter -- and it really said he couldn't investigate -- that he'd have kept a copy to show the press.
On the other side, Barr ordered Federal Investigators, apparently for the first time ever, to investigate the election and look for fraud. Because elections are run by states, there was a lot of criticism for Barr using the DoJ and FBI -- even several questions of if it was Constitutional. So Barr takes all this heat for using federal law enforcement to investigate state elections (Republicans would have had a cow had this been the Biden DoJ), and then tells the investigators they can't actually investigate. I'm sorry, this narrative makes zero sense -- likely why it is a single claim by a politician, not backed up by those he worked with at the time, and a claim no other FBI agent is making.
You are either peddling disinformation or are woefully misinformed or both. Those false claims included perjury.
The FISA court approved the spying to continue while he was President, in part because of the secret testimony to that court by the Assistant Attorney General.
I never said there were no false claims -- perhaps you need to read what I wrote again. Yes, it happened to get the warrant against Carter Page; but Page no longer was working for the Trump campaign so they weren't able to listen in on Trump using that warrant.
