Is this the moment we’ve been waiting for?

| 12:39 am EDT October 25, 2019
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On Thursday evening, Donald Trump’s corrupt Attorney General Bill Barr leaked to the media that his Department of Justice is opening a criminal inquiry into the U.S. intel officials who dared to investigate Donald Trump’s Russia scandal. There don’t appear to be any actual targets, charges, or anything else of substance involved in this sham Barr probe. But it could well be a sign of something else.

Bill Barr is clearly working with nothing here, or his leak about his criminal inquiry would have included some substance to make the whole thing sound more legitimate. That means he based the timing of his announcement solely on his perception that he suddenly needed to it out there. Why?

Sure, it came one day after Bill Taylor’s testimony to the House impeachment inquiry sank Donald Trump’s proverbial Bismarck. But what if it’s something more? Think about what’s transpired over the past thirty-six hours in actual criminal cases. Lev Parnas tried to invoke executive privilege in court, thus making his criminal charges Donald Trump’s problem. Then Rudy Giuliani used a tweet to assert that all of his Ukraine actions were on Trump’s behalf.

This isn’t mere PR posturing on the part of Parnas and Giuliani; these are legal strategies. They suggest that something big is coming down the pike, and soon. The next logical step in the SDNY investigation would be to indict and arrest Rudy Giuliani. Based on how things have played out up to this point, the SDNY would warn Bill Barr slightly in advance that it was going to happen, but would not entertain any attempts by Barr at stopping it.

So maybe Bill Barr knows something we don’t. Maybe the clock is ticking more quickly on the SDNY case than we know, and Barr is announcing this phantom criminal inquiry because he’s trying to run counter programming against what he knows is coming next. We’re not saying Rudy is going to be arrested in the morning. We’re just saying that Barr is acting like we’re at the end of days. He just hurriedly fired off his final big phantom shot, hoping the sound of it drowns out whatever is about to go down. It feels like we’re very close to the moment we’ve been waiting for – or at least one of the moments we’ve been waiting for.