Tag Archives: Bill Barr

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 …

“It was certainly unsettling when I went in to talk to the president about the election and you know, he was livid and shaking and showed a lot of temper and yelling. That was a little unsettling. “But the other thing that was actually unsettling was later when I went in to actually give him my letter of resignation, he …

Mediaite reports: Former Attorney General William Barr says he would vote for Donald Trump if he ran for the White House again, even after deeming the former president responsible for the storming of the U.S. Capitol. Barr spoke to NBC’s Savannah Guthrie on Monday to discuss the revelations of his upcoming memoir: One Damn Thing After Another. The former AG …

From the world’s most famous liar: Former Attorney General Bill Barr wouldn’t know voter fraud if it was staring him in the face—and it was. The fact is, he was weak, ineffective, and totally scared of being impeached, which the Democrats were constantly threatening to do. They “broke” him. He should have acted much faster on the Mueller Report, instead …

The Washington Post reports: Former attorney general William P. Barr said in an interview broadcast Friday that he believes that former president Donald Trump is “responsible in the broad sense of that word” for what transpired at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. “I do think he was responsible in the broad sense of that word in that it appears …

The Wall Street Journal reports: Former Attorney General William Barr writes in a new book that former President Donald Trump has “shown he has neither the temperament nor persuasive powers to provide the kind of positive leadership that is needed,” and that it is time for Republicans to focus on rising new leaders in the party. The release of the …

ABC News reports: Former Attorney General William P. Barr has a memoir coming out March 8 titled “One Damn Thing After Another,” and billed by his publisher as a “vivid and forthright book” of his time serving two “drastically different” presidents, Donald Trump and George H.W. Bush. One of his most controversial actions involved special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of …

CBS News reports: Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who became known for his representation of adult film actress Stormy Daniels and battle with former President Donald Trump, alleges in a new filing with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) that he was mistreated while in federal custody in retaliation for his criticisms of Trump and former Attorney General William Barr. Avenatti …

Raw Story reports: When Cohen was put in prison, COVID-19 was raging through the country and, namely through prisons. As a result, many correctional facilities put non-violent offenders on house arrest, including Cohen. To let him out, however, Cohen was told he’d have to sign a statement promising he wouldn’t publish his book until he had served his entire prison …

CNN Business reports: Former attorney general Bill Barr says Fox News host Maria Bartiromo called him up “screaming” about imaginary voter fraud, according to his account in a new book. Betrayal,” by ABC’s chief Washington correspondent Jon Karl, highlights Bartiromo’s damaging role as a promoter of reckless lies about the election. Bartiromo comes up several times in “Betrayal.” In mid-November, …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump on Sunday lambasted his former Attorney General, Bill Barr, after Barr described Trump’s repeated unsubstantiated claims about the 2020 election as “bullshit” in a forthcoming book. “Bill Barr was a disappointment in every sense of the word,” Trump said in a statement issued late Sunday. “Besides which, Barr, who was Attorney General (lawyer) shouldn’t …

Mediaite reports: Bill Barr, you will recall, publicly stated on December 1st that the Justice Department has seen no evidence of “fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election.” Privately, ABC’s Jonathan Karl reports, after Barr made that December 1st statement, he met with Trump, who was fuming. Trump brought up Barr’s AP interview. …

The Hill reports: Former Attorney General Bill Barr reportedly called Trump’s false claims of election fraud “bull—-,” according to a new book on the final days of the Trump administration. The revelation comes from the book “Betrayal,” authored by ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl. The Atlantic published an excerpt from the book on Sunday, providing key details of …

Mediaite reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell decried Democrats’ calls for an investigation into the DOJ obtaining House members’ data and said it’s a “witch hunt in the making.” “Any outrage from Democrats that alleged criminal leaks within their own ranks rightly drew the attention of federal investigators rings completely hollow,” he said. “Attorney General Barr served our nation with …

The New York Times reports: John Demers, the head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, is expected to step down at the end of next week, according to a person familiar with the matter, a departure that was arranged months ago but now comes amid widespread backlash over investigations into leaks of classified information that began under the Trump …

The Hill reports: John Dean, then-White House counsel to former President Nixon, criticized the Department of Justice’s actions under former President Trump, calling it “Nixon on stilts and steroids” during an interview with CNN. The comments come in light of a recent New York Times report that found both former attorneys general Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr subpoenaed Apple in …

Politico reports: Former Attorney General William Barr on Friday distanced himself from reports that the Trump Justice Department seized communications records belonging to two prominent Democratic lawmakers who were spearheading investigations into then-President Donald Trump. In a phone interview, Barr said he didn’t recall getting briefed on the moves. Barr said that while he was attorney general, he was “not …

The Wall Street Journal reports: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) called for former attorneys general Jeff Sessions and William Barr to testify before Congress under oath after revelations that the Trump Justice Department secretly sought records from Apple Inc. related to communications by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee …