Pierre Omidyar, Those 1,100 Former Prosecutors, and Never Trumpers

A letter calling for Attorney General Bill Barr to resign, signed by 1,100 former Department of Justice prosecutors, was breathlessly reported by the Democrat/Deep State media.

Since that news was dismissed by most discerning individuals, the deranged Trump haters needed to report that more ex-DOJ officials are calling for Barr to resign.

From CBS News:

Some 2,000 former Justice Department officials who served in Republican and Democratic administrations are urging Attorney General William Barr to resign after the department intervened in the case of Roger Stone, a longtime ally of President Trump's, triggering claims of political interference.

The Justice Department alumni made their request to Barr in an open letter published Sunday and said the move by top officials at the department to overrule federal prosecutors in Stone's case was "unheard of."

Initially, some 1,100 signed on but that number almost doubled, hitting 2,003 during the day Monday.

More calls for resignation. More lame open letters signed by "officials."

We've had so much of this crap the past three years it's just ignored.

The Leftists need to refresh their methods. They don't work.

Lawyers opposing Brett Kavanaugh didn't keep him from becoming a Supreme Court justice.

Ex-DOJ goofs aren't going to matter.

The letter gives the Democrat/Deep State media some fuel for their Fake News. That's it's ultimate purpose.

Additional signatures, now up to 2,003! How many more will there be tomorrow?

What a joke!

If there's anything interesting about the letter, it's the creation of the stunt and its funding.

Julie Kelly writes:

The headline sounded ominous: “Former Justice Dept. Lawyers Press for Barr to Step Down,” blared an article in Sunday’s New York Times. More than 1,100 former federal prosecutors signed a letter to condemn Attorney General William Barr and encourage Justice Department employees to tattle on the nation’s top lawman if they see anything naughty.

...Times reporter Katie Benner, trying to make the stunt look like a legitimate grassroots effort, attributed the letter to Protect Democracy, which she described as a “nonprofit legal group.” But Protect Democracy is not an organic activist group spontaneously created by high-minded legal experts alarmed by Trump’s alleged flouting of the rule of law. Protect Democracy was launched in early 2017 as part of an extensive anti-Trump operation managed by a leftwing tech billionaire: Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay. This is who is behind Protect Democracy and a number of other nonprofits formed to destroy the president.

In 2018, according to the group’s most recent tax filing, Protect Democracy collected nearly $7 million in donations; Omidyar’s most politically-active nonprofit, Democracy Fund, has donated $2 million since 2017. Democracy Fund is spending tens of millions each year to underwrite dozens of anti-Trump projects. “Over the past two years, I have seen alarming and sometimes unprecedented violations of our country’s democratic norms,” Joe Goldman, the fund’s president, wrote in 2018.

Protect Democracy houses a number of former Democratic staffers—including a former aide to U.S. Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)—and Obama White House alumni. Ricki Seidman, last seen advising Christine Blasey Ford, is a director for Protect Democracy.

Several NeverTrumpers also are involved with Protect Democracy; National Review columnists Mona Charen and Linda Chavez, ABC News pundit Matthew Dowd, and failed presidential candidate Evan McMullin serve as advisors. As I’ve reported before, Omidyar is the sugar daddy for many NeverTrump outlets. The Bulwark, the offshoot of the shuttered Weekly Standard, is partially funded by Omidyar: Charlie Sykes, the Bulwark’s editor-in-chief, serves on the board of Democracy Fund.

Omidyar also funds Republicans for the Rule of Law, headed by Bill Kristol; Lawfare, a central peddler of Russian collusion hoax propaganda; R Street, home to disgraced FBI lawyer James Baker; and Stand-Up Republic, headed by McMullin. All have been on the attack against Trump and Barr.

Pierre Omidyar, this Leftist billionaire, is bankrolling the allegedly conservative operations of these allegedly principled conservatives?

Democrat/Leftist Omidyar funds the Bulwark.

Charlie Sykes is on the board of Democracy Fund, Democrat/Leftist Omidyar’s most politically-active nonprofit.

Not presumably forever; not perhaps for a day after Nov. 3, 2020; not on every issue or in every way until then. But for the time being one has to say: We are all Democrats now.

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) February 1, 2020

Self-identify as independent political orphan and contrarian conservative

— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) February 1, 2020

"Independent political orphan and contrarian conservative" Sykes is in bed with Democrat/Leftist billionaire Omidyar.

At least, Kristol is honest about his political affiliation.

Omidyar funds the Never Trump brigade. The Democrat/Leftist billionaire gives his money to people doing his bidding.

If by "contrarian conservative" Sykes means Democrat/Leftist, then I guess he is a "contrarian conservative."