'Toontime: The AG of Donald Trump

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi called a spade a spade this week when she told reporters how disappointing it is that William Barr has "gone off the rails" by refusing to release the full report to the House Judiciary Committee.  She said the hand-picked replacement for Jeff Sessions is the "Attorney General of the United States, not the Attorney General for Donald Trump".  Democrats are finding out only spineless sycophants can work the for ranting egotist that is the current occupant of the Very White House, and Barr is no exception.

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Wackdoodle sez:  I thought who was in the White House?

In a development related to the sprawling Russian Connection investigation, Julian Paul Assange, co-founder of Wikkileaks, was finally taken into custody by British authorities on Thursday after the Ecuadorian government withdrew political asylum for the alleged computer hacker. An extradition request by the US is pending before the British courts. Assange has been hiding out in Ecuador's British embassy since 2012.

Assange is not charged with publishing the hacked Democratic National Committee emails, but with assisting former US intelligence analyst, Chelsea Manning, to crack the password code for secret DOD computer files. The charge carries a sentence of five years. The decision to indict Assange on such narrow grounds is seen as an advantage to Assange's defense team, and an opportunity to liberate more classified information from the government. Neither is extradition to the US a done deal since he could argue that the indictment in the Eastern District of Virginia on "computer intrusion" is an attempt to punish him for publication of classified information, a charge fraught with First Amendment restrictions.

Speculation abounds that once returned, Assange will be hit with a superseding indictment charging much more serious crimes including violation of the Espionage Act, and a potential life sentence. Labour's Jeremy Corbin wrote, "The extradition of Julian Assange to the US for exposing evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan should be opposed by the British government."  UK's first black MP Diane Abbott said, “Julian Assange is not being pursued to protect US national security, he is being pursued because he has exposed wrongdoing by US administrations and their military forces.” (Bernie Sanders, where are you?)  The publisher has refused to reveal so far whether Russian agents were his source for the hacked Democratic emails. When asked for his reaction to the arrest, Indivdual I said he did not know anything about Wikkileaks; "It's not my thing" claimed the plutocrat Denier in Chief. Whaaaa? Play the tape!

Who is this man? And how did he predict the advent of Don Veto Trumpilini?