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Former AG Bill Barr writes for the New York Post: Trump isn’t really interested in broadening his appeal. Instead he is content to focus on intensifying his personal hold over a faction within the party — a group that is probably no larger than a quarter of the GOP, but which allows Trump to use it as leverage to extort …

“If a former president commits a crime, you know, especially a serious crime, they should be indicted for it. “If the Department of Justice can show that these were indeed very sensitive documents, which I think they probably were, and also show that the president consciously was involved in misleading the department, deceiving the government, and playing games after he …

The Daily Beast reports: The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to conduct a congressional inquiry into claims made by a former top federal prosecutor that Donald Trump attempted to meddle with his office, using the Justice Department to protect himself and pursue his detractors. Geoffrey Berman, who was U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York until mid-2020, when he …

The Hill reports: Former Attorney General William Barr said on Wednesday that he believes the Justice Department is “getting very close” to having enough evidence to indict former President Trump. He said on Fox News that government investigators need to consider if they will be able to make a “technical” case against Trump for his handling of sensitive documents the …

Mediaite reports: Former Attorney General Bill Barr blasted a ruling by a judge to appoint a special master in the case involving Donald Trump’s improper retention of government documents. The ruling has been derided by legal experts. Appearing on Tuesday’s The Story with Martha MacCallum, Barr added his name to that list. “The opinion, I think, was wrong and I …

The New York Times reports: “As more information comes out, the actions of the department look more understandable,” Mr. Barr told The New York Times in a phone interview, speaking of the decision by the current attorney general, Merrick B. Garland, to seek a search warrant of the complex at Mar-a-Lago. “It seems to me they were driven by concern …

The Independent reports: Trump’s attorney general Bill Barr offered some harsh words against his former boss as new details were released about documents seized from Mar-a-Lago by the FBI. “I think for them to take things to the current point they probably have pretty good evidence. People say this was unprecedented.” “Well, it’s also unprecedented for a POTUS to take …

Newsweek reports: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo on May 25 extending a Department of Justice policy from 2020 that requires investigators to clear any investigations into presidential candidates or their staff with the attorney general. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow revealed the existence of the memo on her show on Monday. The memo reiterates a policy introduced by former …

ABC News reports: Former Attorney General William Barr has been subpoenaed as part of an ongoing 2020 election defamation lawsuit against Fox News brought by voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems, according to the court docket in the case. Dominion filed to subpoena Donald Trump’s former AG last week, according to the docket — the latest sign that the company’s …

The Hill reports: Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified on Tuesday that former President Trump was so upset that then-Attorney General William Barr dismissed claims of widespread election fraud that he threw his lunch at the wall in the West Wing dining room. Hutchinson recalled hearing noise from down the hall shortly after Barr’s interview with the Associated …

“We’re not going to be blown off by somebody like Bill Barr. Bill Barr, we’re coming for you, bro! You’re sitting there lying about this. “If you had any decency whatsoever you would have reached out to Dinesh D’Souza before you smeared him. “We’re going to deconstruct this, and we’re going to rub your nose in it and then we’re …

NBC News reports: Barr said Trump told him the report showed “absolute proof the Dominion machines were rigged,” a favorite post-election claim of voter fraud Trump spread. “The report means that I’m going to have a second term,” Barr said Trump told him before handing him a copy of the report. “And as he talked more and more about it, …

“I had three discussions with the president that I can recall. One was on Nov. 23, one was on Dec. 1 and one on Dec. 14, and I’ve been through sort of the give and take of those discussions and in that context I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen …

CNN reports: Former Attorney General William Barr on Thursday met with the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol as CNN spotted him inside a room used by the panel to conduct interviews. Barr met with the panel for just over two hours today, according to an official familiar with the meeting. CNN previously reported …

“I’m very proud of John Durham, and I do take responsibility for his appointment, and I think he and his team did an exceptionally able job, both digging out very important facts and presenting a compelling case to the jury. “While he did not succeed in getting a conviction from the D.C. jury, I think he accomplished something far more …

Axios reports: President Trump’s attorney general Bill Barr is in active discussions with the Jan. 6th investigative committee to appear for a formal transcribed interview, according to two sources with direct knowledge. Barr is likely to cooperate with the committee, according to a source familiar with his thinking. Tim Mulvey, a spokesman for the Jan. 6 committee, declined to comment. …

Mediaite reports: “Do you think that this person will be found?” asked Martha MacCallum. “There’s an argument in some ways that they would like to be found, eventually because they could sort of build a cottage industry off of being the person that leaked this in some aspects.” Barr gave a dramatic response. “Well, I hope they build it while …

Mediaiate has the transcript: Look, we also had a chance, but Bill Barr, the attorney general, didn’t want to be impeached. They were vicious with him. They said, “We’re gonna impeach him.” They didn’t even know why. But they were gonna impeach Bill Barr. He didn’t want to be impeached. How do you not to get impeached? You sit back …

Politico reports: Former Attorney General William Barr on Sunday said progressives are “dangerous” to the country and indicated that he could support Donald Trump should he win the Republican nomination in 2024. Barr said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” that he’d favor a generic Republican nominee over the former president if he decides to run again. But when host Chuck …

CNN reports: Former Attorney General William Barr on Friday stood by his widely criticized comments before the 2020 election that mail voting was vulnerable to fraud, even as he condemned  Trump’s false post-election claims that the 2020 contest had been stolen from him. “I stand by all of that,” Barr told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead.” “My view is …