Holder Foretells The Return Of Obama: “He’s Coming, And He’s Ready To Roll”
Barack Obama, after making the very difficult decision to proceed with Penguin Random House to publish his and Michelle’s White House memoirs in a deal rumored to net him about $60 million, is, at least according to old pal Eric Holder, ready to take his place at the helm of the democrats’ Trump opposition efforts. Of course, this breaks with the tradition upheld by most former Presidents who have chosen to not publicly criticize their successors…but the rules don’t really apply to Obama now do they?
According to Holder, Obama’s triumphant return to politics will be focused on, among other things, fundraising (his specialty) and assisting the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) in its efforts to redraw congressional districts to give Democrats a leg up in the House of Representatives. Per Politico:
Barack Obama is getting closer to making his public reappearance in politics, his friend and former Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday.
Holder said he’s been talking to the former president about ways — including fundraising and interacting with state legislators — that could help the new National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which Obama asked Holder to chair last year.
“It’s coming. He’s coming,” Holder said, speaking to reporters at a briefing for the new group. “And he’s ready to roll.”
Throughout, Holder said, Obama “will be a more visible part of the effort.”
As Holder notes, he and the former President will join forces in an epic “battle for our democracy” that will revolve around redrawing maps to benefit his chosen party.
The NDRC is looking to be an intensified central force for Democrats to tackle their disadvantage in gerrymandering. The mission is to direct resources into winning targeted state elections, push ballot initiatives for nonpartisan district-drawing commissions and wage legal challenges to existing maps. The hope is that this would put Democrats in a stronger position in state houses, but also in the U.S. House of Representatives, if districts are drawn that more accurately represent the distribution of the popular vote, citing statistics that showed Republicans winning 49 percent of the vote in those elections but getting 55 percent of the seats in the 2016 elections.
“This is really a battle for our democracy,” Holder said. “The notion that people are denied their ability to cast a meaningful vote … is inconsistent with who we say we are, inconsistent with what we say our democracy is about.”
Of course, we’re sure that Holder’s intentions are every bit as pure as he says they are and he is in no way motivated to go out and file a bunch of gerrymandering lawsuits just because it will net his law firm, Covington & Burlin, as well as himself, million of dollars in fees.
As we noted before, Holder was also “honored” recently to win a mandate from California, even though no one has any idea what he’s been retained to do, which will also undoubtedly result in $10s of million of dollars in bribes fees for his new law firm.
“I am honored that the Legislature chose Covington to serve as its legal adviser as it considers how to respond to potential changes in federal law that could impact California’s residents and policy priorities,” Mr. Holder said in a statement. “I am confident that our expertise across a wide array of federal legal and regulatory issues will be a great resource to the Legislature.”
The Legislature has an ample stable of lawyers on staff, but officials said Mr. Holder and his firm brought specific litigation and political skills that could be needed in the coming years. Mr. de León said the final compensation for the firm had not been set, but would be publicly disclosed once it was.
As a reminder, Holder made history back in 2012 when he became the first Attorney General ever to be held in contempt of Congress over his failure to turn over documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal which involved selling guns to Mexican drug cartels. The scandal erupted on the national stage when one of those guns was confirmed to have been used to kill a U.S. border control agent, Brian Terry.
Good to see Obama’s former staff embracing “The Swamp” that Trump has vowed to drain.
ZeroHedge
They didn’t like the outcome so they think they can just change the rules. How typical..? Perhaps it is time to finally hold holder accountable for his criminal activity involving illegal gun running across the border. The guy belongs in a jail cell. Lets see that he gets there.
Obama better be going into a cell to be tried for Treason, *Terrorism, First Degree Murder, many felonies, Perjury, impersonating a US President as he NEVER met all three requirements and if he had Lawfully received every single vote in America he still could NEVER BE A LAWFUL US President. <- that, btw, is another reason why President Trump does not need to write EO's or convince the Congress to remove anything Obama "created" from Obamacare to NDAA, extension of NSA, TSA, etc, etc, etc, etc. NONE of it was lawfully done, so is NULL and VOID.
Obama, much like Hillary, needs to be PROSECUTED for HIS crimes against Americans, the USA. IDC if it is not what is usually done, we have never had such an open TREASON against our nation that I can remember. Open Treason and we let it walk amongst us.
If Trump is not man enough to keep HIS Oath, we need to replace him. He has to stand against the Military Industrial Congressional Complex, the Federal Reserve, replace those domestic enemies serving within the WH and our governments at all levels and we must stand with him, defend him if he does, with our lives if necessary. He is required to Preserve, Protect, and Defend the US Constitution, much higher standards then all else who serve within our governments; but unless we want another Kennedy disaster caused by the Traitors in our midst – and on the things he is slowly backing off from I believe they have already "put pressure on him" – we need to ferret them out and arrest, charge, prosecute every level of them. This may be our last chance for our nation as our last gift from God.
God Bless and Stay Safe All
Cal
If there were never intended to be action to defend the Constitution from those who are domestically attempting to destroy its power and authority, why would each Oath require it of those who take the Oaths?
Chief Tecumseh: “When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”
lest we forget, HW was leveraged away from his promise of “no new taxes” because he compromised with dRATS to get funding for the first Gulf war, and they killed him for it.
W compromised to get their buy-off for the war on terror war and was neutered for it as they then rolled on to destroy the economy. Compromise doesn’t work with this greedy, take-no-prisoners bunch. We don’t need them now, Trump must pee on their heads while telling them to lick their lips.
This is Orwellian, Hitchcockian, Kingian and Old Testamentian all rolled into one! We are witnessing a coup d’état out in the open and in broad daylight, led by past president Obama and Jarrett with the support of traitors in Congress (McCain) and spooks in CIA & NSA…a probably FBI is in on it as well. This is 100% happening…100% desperate insanity. They are acting as if they have nothing to lose.
I say if they unseat our duly elected president than civil war should start beginning with this lets not pussy out before we die together or perish alone if we fight as a fist we will have a better chance of winning than if we fight as a finger alone