William Barr Flatly Contradicts Trump’s Story That He Was In His Bunker For ‘Inspection’

Mod: Now that Wide Billy Barr is being sued by Black Lives Matter for gassing and shooting people in the streets, he is having these most unusual outbursts of honesty. Then again, did he know he was contradicting Agent Orange?

William Barr Flatly Contradicts Trump’s Story That He Was In His Bunker For ‘Inspection’ (Huffington Postlink): President Donald Trump insisted last week that he was down in his White House bunker for a “tiny, little short period of time” for an “inspection.” Not true, Attorney General William Barr spilled Monday: The president was there for protection from protesters.

“Things were so bad that the Secret Service recommended the president go down to the bunker,” Barr told Bret Baier on Fox News.

Barr revealed the news angrily, insisting that the president was in danger. “We can’t have that in our country,” he added, apparently forgetting he had just contradicted his boss.

Trump was reportedly rushed by the Secret Service to the underground Presidential Emergency Operations Center on May 29 as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the White House during nationwide demonstrations triggered by the May 25 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Trump spent nearly an hour in the bunker, which was designed for use in emergencies, such as terrorist attacks.

It's official: The U.S. entered a recession in February (NBC News link): The U.S. is officially in a recession, bringing an end to a historic 128 months of economic growth, after the coronavirus pandemic swept the country and shut down the economy.

For more than a decade, the American economy seemed to contradict the adage "What goes up, must come down." That ended in February, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, or NBER, the agency that identifies periods of economic growth and contraction. The economic expansion would have turned 11 years old this month — a span unmatched in the postwar economy.

The NBER noted that the quarterly peak was the final quarter of 2019. Gross domestic production dropped by 5 percent in the first quarter of 2020, and analysts predict that the drop in the current quarter is likely to be historically steep. A tracking tool from the Atlanta Federal Reserve estimated a drop of nearly 54 percent for the quarter.

Trump declares Romney not welcome in bunker (link).

"March represented a huge contraction, and that contraction was significant enough that it offset the growth in January and February,"Bankrate.com chief financial analyst Greg McBride said. "That really underscores the significant and sudden stop in the economy, because the lockdowns didn't even kick in on March 1. So, in reality, it was the last two weeks of the quarter."

Mod: That also contradicts Agent Orange's version of events. But doesn't most reality?

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