Former Attorney General William Barr penned an op-ed late last week outlining the true extent that Mexico&#8217;s drug cartels are responsible for devastation inside the U.S. and called for U.S. military intervention to end the carnage.
Barr highlighted recent legislation introduced in Congress that would give President Joe Biden the authority to use the U.S. military to wage war against the drug cartels, saying that since the head of the snake was on the southern side of the border, that is where the fight needs to take place.
The <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-us-must-defeat-mexicos-drug-cartels-narco-terrorism-amlo-el-chapo-crenshaw-military-law-enforcement-b8fac731">op-ed</a>, featured in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, noted that the 100,000+ Americans dying yearly from drug overdoses is more than the number of American soldiers killed during the bloodiest year of fighting for U.S. forces during World War II.
Barr noted, however, that simply looking at the number of Americans killed from drug overdoses does not reflect the full extent of the damage caused by the cartels.
&#8220;A 2017 analysis, accounting for the costs of healthcare, criminal justice, lost productivity and social and family services, estimated that the total cost of America’s drug epidemic was more than $1 trillion annually, or 5% of gross domestic product,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Given the explosion in illicit drug deaths since then, this estimate now seems conservative.&#8221;
Barr noted that aggressive action against cartels is effective and worked in the early 1990s when the U.S. and Colombian governments joined forces to eradicate the two most powerful cartels in the world at that time, the Medellín and Cali cartels. Barr said that Democrat President Bill Clinton was responsible for pulling back America&#8217;s aggressiveness in stamping out cartels on their home turf.
Barr then outlined what he believes it will take to destroy Mexico&#8217;s cartels:
<blockquote>What will it take to defeat the Mexican cartels? First, a far more aggressive American effort inside Mexico than ever before, including a significant U.S. law-enforcement and intelligence presence, as well as select military capabilities. Optimally, the Mexican government will support and participate in this effort, and it is likely to do so once they understand that the U.S. is committed to do whatever is necessary to cripple the cartels, whether or not the Mexican government participates.
Second, the danger cartels pose to the U.S. requires that we confront them primarily as national-security threats, not a law-enforcement matter. These narco-terrorist groups are more like ISIS than like the American mafia. Case-by-case prosecution of individuals can be a part of an overall effort, but the only way to defeat them is to use every tool at our disposal inside Mexico. Merely designating the cartels as terrorist groups will do nothing by itself. The real question is whether we are willing to go after them as we would a terrorist group.</blockquote>
The most recent DEA National Drug Threat Assessment noted that most illicit drugs come through the unsecured southern border, which has become less secure under Biden.
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&#8220;Mexican transnational criminal organizations continue to supply most of the cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl smuggled into the country, while violent street gangs dominate the retail sale and distribution of these illicit drugs at the local level,&#8221; the report <a href="https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2021-02/DIR-008-21%202020%20National%20Drug%20Threat%20Assessment_WEB.pdf">said</a>. &#8220;Mexican TCOs are the greatest drug trafficking threat to the United States; they control most of the U.S. drug market and have established varied transportation routes, have advanced communications capabilities, and hold strong affiliations with criminal groups and gangs in the United States.&#8221;
Mexico&#8217;s drug cartels are so powerful that there are often situations in which the Mexican government is forced to back down, like in 2019 when the Mexican military captured Ovidio Guzmán López, the son of notorious Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquín Guzmán Loera, and was forced to let him go after hundreds of heavily armed cartel gunmen threatened to murder families and overrun the soldiers. Mexico <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/3500-mexican-soldiers-execute-operation-to-arrest-el-chapos-son-dozens-killed-and-wounded-report">launched</a> a massive military operation in January to recapture Ovidio Guzmán that involved more than 3,500 soldiers. The mission was successful, but only after heavy gunfire that resulted in dozens of deaths.
Some have suggested that the military operation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mexicos-leftist-president-abandons-hugs-not-bullets-approach-to-crime-didnt-work-and-is-not-viable">signaled</a> a shift in policy by Mexico’s leftist president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/andres-manuel-lopez-obrador" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrés Manuel López Obrador</a>, who came into office promising a “hugs not bullets” approach to dealing with the cartels.
Barr, however, is not buying that AMLO has had a change of heart and instead called him the cartel&#8217;s &#8220;chief enabler.&#8221; &#8220;In reality, AMLO is unwilling to take action that would seriously challenge the cartels,&#8221; Barr wrote. &#8220;He shields them by consistently invoking Mexico’s sovereignty to block the U.S. from taking effective action.&#8221;

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Bill Barr Reveals Impact Of Mexico’s Drug Cartels On U.S., Calls For U.S. Military Intervention

Bill Barr Reveals Impact Of Mexico's Drug Cartels On U.S., Calls For U.S. Military Intervention

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Former Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Barr</a> chastised The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> for its critical reporting of special counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-durham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Durham</a>&#8216;s investigation into potential misconduct in the Trump-Russia probe.
Barr broke his silence Wednesday while speaking to a reporter after delivering a speech in Sacramento, California. He challenged aspects of an article published last week <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/politics/durham-trump-russia-barr.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">detailing alleged</a> problems in Durham&#8217;s endeavor. “They ignored some fundamental facts as to why some of the information that Durham was seeking was very important information,” Barr charged, according to the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-02-01/bill-barr-says-he-didnt-overstep-in-his-involvement-in-the-durham-probe-of-mueller-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles Times</a>. He also said the article missed &#8220;obvious reasons&#8221; for Durham&#8217;s investigation.
The New York Times &#8220;stands behind this story and the reporting it contains,&#8221; a spokesperson for the newspaper said in response. The original report noted Barr declined to comment for the article.
In May 2019, shortly after special counsel Robert Mueller released his report, Barr appointed then-U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut Durham to investigate the origins and conduct of the FBI inquiry into alleged ties between former President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 campaign and Russia. Barr elevated Durham to special counsel status in the final months of the Trump administration, giving Durham extra protections to continue his work once President Joe Biden took office. Trump and his allies often champion Durham&#8217;s investigation as a means to unravel a suspected &#8220;Russiagate&#8221; plot against the former president. Democrats and others have criticized the inquiry as a politically tainted endeavor meant to discredit Mueller and top officials from the FBI.
The New York Times report gave fuel to Durham&#8217;s detractors in Congress. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-democrats-threaten-hard-look-at-durham-inquiry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened an investigation</a> and House Democrats pressed the Justice Department inspector general to <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/Lieu%20and%20Goldman%20letter%20requesting%20inspector%20general%20investigation%20into%20Barr%20and%20Durham/d1a1af56f980a928/full.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">start a review</a> to determine whether Barr or Durham “violated any laws, DOJ rules or practices, or canons of legal ethics.”
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Goldman: Ted Lieu and I sent you a letter requesting that you conduct an investigation into Durham’s investigation to see if Mr. Barr or Mr. Durham violated any department policies, regulations, or law. Have you reviewed this letter yet? <a href="https://t.co/fXPvuk8ots">pic.twitter.com/fXPvuk8ots</a>
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The article, published on January 26, said a monthslong review by the New York Times &#8220;found that the main thrust of the Durham inquiry was marked by some of the very same flaws — including a strained justification for opening it and its role in fueling partisan conspiracy theories that would never be charged in court.&#8221; The article also outlined how Durham&#8217;s investigation &#8220;became roiled by internal dissent and ethical disputes,&#8221; leading to resignations by some dissatisfied prosecutors on the team, including Durham&#8217;s No. 2 Nora Dannehy, who allegedly disliked how Barr spoke ominously about the probe&#8217;s findings in public.
Barr, who made an appearance at the <a href="http://capcon2023.com/#Speakers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California News Publishers Association meeting</a>, outright rejected the notion that appointing Durham to the task was problematic from the start.
&#8220;The idea that there was a thin basis for doing it doesn’t hold water,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;Because it wasn’t started as a criminal investigation. One of the duties of the attorney general is to protect against the abuse of criminal and intelligence powers, that they’re not abused to impinge on political activity, so I felt it was my duty to find out what happened there.&#8221;
In addition, Barr defended himself in response to one of the most explosive claims in the article — that Durham expanded his inquiry in the fall of 2019 to include a criminal investigation into &#8220;suspicious financial dealings&#8221; tied to Trump in response to a tip from Italian officials. However, the report asserted the details were largely unclear and said this line of inquiry did not result in Durham bringing charges.
Barr insisted the tip &#8220;was not directly about Trump&#8221; and argued it was appropriate to rope it into Durham&#8217;s investigation because “it did have a relationship to the Russiagate stuff. It was not completely separate from it. And it turned out to be a complete non-issue.&#8221;
So far, Durham has secured one guilty plea: that of former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who was accused of falsifying a document in efforts to renew the authority to conduct FISA surveillance on onetime Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page. Clinesmith was spared prison time and faced a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-lawyer-clinesmith-one-year-bar-suspension-guilty-plea-fisa-deception" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one-year bar suspension</a>. Last year, Durham endured setbacks when prosecutions against former Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann and Igor Danchenko, a key source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele&#8217;s anti-Trump dossier, ended in acquittal in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia, respectively.
Whenever Durham&#8217;s report is complete, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/obama-doj-official-durham-report-pause" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Attorney General Merrick Garland has said</a> he would &#8220;like as much as possible to be made public,&#8221; but he also stressed there will be Privacy Act concerns and classification to consider.
“I think [Durham]&#8217;s going to explain, to the extent he’s allowed to put it out, the whole genesis of [the Russia interference claims] and how it all occurred,” Barr said, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-02-01/bill-barr-says-he-didnt-overstep-in-his-involvement-in-the-durham-probe-of-mueller-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per the Los Angeles Times</a>. “So what’s wrong with that? You review something, you get the facts. Yes, we wanted to hold people accountable if something came up that indicated criminality, or you could prove criminality. But it wasn’t a criminal investigation, it was a review to get the story. And he got the story.”

Barr Slams New York Times Reporting On Durham Probe

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Former Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Barr</a> told PBS in an interview this week that he believes that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has a legitimate criminal case against former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>.
Barr made the remarks during an interview on &#8220;Firing Line&#8221; with host Margaret Hoover.
Barr said at the start of the interview that he does not believe that Trump is &#8220;the right person to lead either the Republican Party or the country forward&#8221; and that he was disappointed when Trump announced he would seek the White House again.
Barr said that part of the reason that Trump was maybe was running again was to insulate himself from unprecedented federal, state, and congressional investigations. &#8220;But I think he, you know, he has a monumental ego, and he doesn’t want to go down in history as a loser,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And he also would like to get revenge on the people that he feels didn’t give him his due.&#8221;
Regarding the poor showing Trump&#8217;s candidates had in key races during the recent midterm election, Barr said that Trump &#8220;picked candidates that were weak candidates simply because they were willing to show their fealty to him by saying that the election was stolen. And that backfired completely.&#8221;
Regarding the FBI&#8217;s raid on Mar-a-Lago earlier this year as part of their criminal investigation into Trump&#8217;s handling of U.S. government records, Barr said, &#8220;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 had received the subpoena for the documents, those are serious charges.&#8221;
When asked if Trump&#8217;s actions were a &#8220;serious enough crime&#8221; to prosecute, Barr said, &#8220;That&#8217;s serious.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I’ve said that I personally think that they probably have the basis for legitimately indicting the president. I don’t know, I’m speculating,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But given what’s gone on, I think they probably have the evidence that would check the box. They have the case.&#8221;
Barr said that the argument for charging Trump with crimes is that &#8220;if you let someone like this who, you know — if the facts are as raw as they may be, and you let someone get away with it, how can you protect these secrets?&#8221;
&#8220;How can you insist on people in government taking this stuff seriously?&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So, you know, that’s an important thing to weigh, as well as what the, you know, what it will do to the country and to the office of the presidency. And I think Merrick Garland is going to have to make that call.&#8221;
Despite Trump&#8217;s legal troubles, Barr said that he remained open to supporting Trump again in the future should he once again be the Republican Party&#8217;s nominee for president in 2024.
&#8220;I’m just hoping that never comes to that, because I think it would be a tragedy if he’s our nominee, if he’s the Republican nominee,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I’ll have to see what’s going on in the world, who the Democratic nominee is. If it’s a progressive Democratic nominee, I can’t imagine voting for them.&#8221;
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Former AG Bill Barr: Criminal Probe Into Trump ‘Serious,’ DOJ Has ‘Basis For Legitimately Indicting’ Him

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Former Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Barr</a> said during an interview this week that he believes the so-called &#8220;deep state&#8221; exists and that it is defined by people who use their roles as civil servants to pursue partisan political agendas.
Barr made the remarks during an interview on PBS&#8217; “Firing Line&#8221; with host Margaret Hoover when he was asked to comment on his first stint as attorney general back in the 1990s under then-President George H.W. Bush, who previously ran the CIA.
&#8220;He was CIA director for one year and that institution is now named after him. When you drive by it in Langley, it’s the George H.W. Bush Center,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And he was highly regarded because he basically trusted people in the agency. He didn’t separate himself from them and, you know, bash them and so forth. Now, I have to say that it was a different age. Things have, you know, evolved.&#8221;
&#8220;So, you know, I wouldn’t take what he said to say, ‘Well, gee, you know, the people who were saying there’s a Deep State today are, you know, are wrong,’ right?&#8221; Barr continued. &#8220;There is a deep state.&#8221;
&#8220;I am critical of the Deep State and believe it exists,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The way I would define the deep state is an increased willingness by more and more government civil servants to pursue political objectives, rather than stand up for the values of the institution they’re a part of. They are not neutral. They’re not politically neutral. But on the other side of the ledger, okay, is that I think there’s an exaggeration of its pervasiveness. It’s bad. It does pervert government. But I still think the vast majority of civil servants try to do an honest job and try to check their politics at the door.&#8221;
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<blockquote>MARGARET HOOVER: You worked under George H.W. Bush when he was CIA director as well, when you were still at the CIA. And you write, “He was easily accessible and he trusted CIA professionals, unless they gave him reason not to. I learned a lot watching him lift up a dispirited organization.” Talk more about what you learned from Bush’s leadership.
BILL BARR: Well, exactly that. He was CIA director for one year and that institution is now named after him. When you drive by it in Langley, it’s the George H.W. Bush Center. And he was highly regarded because he basically trusted people in the agency. He didn’t separate himself from them and, you know, bash them and so forth. Now I have to say that it was a different age. Things have, you know, evolved. So, you know, I wouldn’t take what he said to say, ‘Well, gee, you know, the people who were saying there’s a Deep State today are, you know, are wrong,’ right? There is a deep state.
HOOVER: That’s where I– You read my mind. That’s where I’m going. So given that you’ve worked with career professionals, you have had a long career of interfacing with civil servants who have made their life in the government, I think you’re actually particularly well-suited to comment about the state of the Deep State—whether it exists, how it exists, what it looks like—to put some nuance and some texture around it for me.
BARR: Well, I think the people who attack the Deep State – and I am critical of the Deep State and believe it exists – but there’s also some of the rhetoric and some of the positioning–
HOOVER: So how do you define it?
BARR: The way I would define the deep state is an increased willingness by more and more government civil servants to pursue political objectives, rather than stand up for the values of the institution they’re a part of. They are not neutral. They’re not politically neutral. But on the other side of the ledger, okay, is that I think there’s an exaggeration of its pervasiveness. It’s bad. It does pervert government. But I still think the vast majority of civil servants try to do an honest job and try to check their politics at the door. And I think that President Bush’s quote that you played is right on the money. The most important thing is leadership. When you provide clear guidance and goals people will– the institution will deliver for you. You can move the institution. And I think people who come in to run the government, who try to govern, who treat government employees as pariahs, are not doing their job.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-barr-blasts-letitia-james-civil-lawsuit-against-the-trump-family-its-a-political-hit-job" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Barr Blasts Letitia James’ Civil Lawsuit Against The Trump Family: ‘It’s A Political Hit Job’</a>

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Former Attorney General William Barr On The Deep State: ‘There Is A Deep State,’ It ‘Exists’

Former Attorney General William Barr On The Deep State: 'There Is A Deep State,' It 'Exists'

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Senator <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) demanded receipts from <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/sunny-hostin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunny Hostin</a> when she claimed on &#8220;The View&#8221; that former Attorney General <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Barr</a> was guilty of politicizing and weaponizing the United States Justice Department.
Cruz joined the regular co-hosts for Monday&#8217;s broadcast of the ABC midday talk show, and he argued that it was President Joe Biden&#8217;s Attorney General Merrick Garland who had turned the DOJ into a political weapon, using it to treat parents at <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/national-school-board-association-at-risk-of-total-collapse-following-letter-comparing-parents-to-domestic-terrorists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">school board meetings</a> like domestic terrorists.
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Cruz embarrasses Sunny for her LAZY attack on AG Bill Barr.&quot;You&#39;ve said a name. What did Bill Barr do? Give me the target who was persecuted.&quot; She couldn&#39;t. He called out AG Garland for targeting parents and Sunny showed she didn&#39;t read his book, asking if he wrote about it. <a href="https://t.co/ydHd1YtPKf">pic.twitter.com/ydHd1YtPKf</a>
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Republican host Ana Navarro criticized Cruz for his support of former President Donald Trump, arguing that his responsibility was to the U.S. Constitution and the democratic process over any one person.
Cruz agreed — and immediately turned her argument on its head, arguing that Democrats were the ones who were undermining the Constitution by using the FBI and Justice Department to target political opposition.
&#8220;The Department of Justice and the FBI have been turned into partisan weapons to attack the political opponents of the Biden administration,&#8221; he explained, prompting one of the show&#8217;s hosts to choke and cough.
Whoopi Goldberg tried to push back, claiming that it was really Trump who had outright ignored the Justice Department and the way things were supposed to work. &#8220;You are talking about we corrupted it, you guys don&#8217;t pay any attention to it,&#8221; she insisted.
&#8220;Whoopi, that&#8217;s a great talking point —&#8221; Cruz replied, causing Goldberg to bristle and claim that she didn&#8217;t &#8220;do&#8221; talking points.
Cruz went on to argue that the move to subpoena Trump had been primarily political and that no one actually expected him to testify under oath.
&#8220;Bill Barr,&#8221; Hostin jumped in next, claiming without presenting any actual evidence that the former AG had weaponized the Justice Department.
Cruz called her out, saying, &#8220;You&#8217;ve said a name. What did Bill Barr do? If he weaponized — give me the target who was persecuted.&#8221;
He pivoted again, quickly laying out the evidence against Biden&#8217;s AG Garland: &#8220;Because I can tell you who the Democrats — Merrick Garland directed the FBI to go after moms and dads who go to school boards and to treat them as domestic terrorists using the Patriot Act. That is fundamentally wrong —&#8221;
&#8220;Did you write about that in your book?&#8221; Hostin challenged.
&#8220;Yes, I did,&#8221; Cruz replied.

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Ted Cruz Demands Receipts When Sunny Hostin Accuses Barr Of Weaponizing DOJ

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The View

Former U.S. Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Barr</a> said Wednesday that he does not believe that New York Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/letitia-james" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Letitia James</a>’ civil lawsuit against the Trump family is going to go anywhere, and what convinced him that she overreached on the case was that she decided to go after his children as well.
The lawsuit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-ny-ag-files-fraud-suit-against-donald-trump-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">targets</a> the former president, his business, and many associates. In addition to the former president, the lawsuit targets Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Allen Weisselberg, Jeffrey McConney, The Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, The Trump Organization, Inc., and others.
The lawsuit seeks to punish the targets with a $250 million penalty and a ban on operating any businesses in New York. James also seeks to ban Trump and the Trump Organization from purchasing any real estate in New York for the next five years. The New York attorney general is also referring her investigation into Trump to the Department of Justice for criminal charges.
When asked during a Fox News interview Wednesday what he thought would happen next in the case, Barr responded, &#8220;Well, for one thing, she brought this as a civil case.&#8221;
&#8220;This is not a criminal case,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;To me, that says that she doesn&#8217;t have the evidence to make a criminal case. So she&#8217;s setting a lower bar and bringing this civil case. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to go any further. Now, it&#8217;s over 200 pages long with a lot of details about the valuation of properties.&#8221;
&#8220;But the fact of the matter is that real estate valuation of a complex real estate company like this is inherently very subjective. It depends what kinds of assumptions are used. Values can swing, depending on whether it&#8217;s viewed as a property that&#8217;s going to be split up or one that&#8217;s kept together and so forth. So it&#8217;s not an exact science,&#8221; Barr continued. &#8220;And the fact is that banks, sophisticated banks, don&#8217;t rely on every jot and tittle in the financial statements. They do their own assessments. They make themselves comfortable. Sometimes, they automatically discount that kind of submission. And they didn&#8217;t &#8212; no one &#8212; the loans were paid back. These were successful investments.&#8221;
&#8220;And the banks were paid back,&#8221; Barr added. &#8220;So, to have spent three years on this, seems to me, her trying to make good on a campaign promise that she was going to bring Trump down.&#8221;
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WATCH: New York AG sues Trump over fraud allegations – Bill Barr, Fmr. U.S. AG, says the lawsuit is a “political hit job.” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericaReports?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmericaReports</a>. <a href="https://t.co/4kyYbNWM36">pic.twitter.com/4kyYbNWM36</a>
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Tim Pearce contributed to this report.

Attorney General Barr Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee

Bill Barr Reveals What He Thinks Will Happen Next In Letitia James’ Civil Lawsuit Against The Trump Family

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Letitia James

New York

Former U.S. Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Barr</a> slammed New York Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/letitia-james" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Letitia James</a>’ civil lawsuit against the Trump family on Wednesday, saying that it was hard for him &#8220;not to conclude it&#8217;s a political hit job.&#8221;
The lawsuit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-ny-ag-files-fraud-suit-against-donald-trump-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">targets</a> the former president, his business, and many associates. In addition to the former president, the lawsuit targets Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Allen Weisselberg, Jeffrey McConney, The Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, The Trump Organization, Inc., and others.
The lawsuit seeks to punish the targets with a $250 million penalty and a ban on operating any businesses in New York. James also seeks to ban Trump and the Trump Organization from purchasing any real estate in New York for the next five years. The New York attorney general is also referring her investigation into Trump to the Department of Justice for criminal charges.
Barr responded to the lawsuit during an interview on Fox News with anchor John Roberts.
&#8220;It would seem that her goal is to eviscerate the family business,&#8221; Roberts said. &#8220;What do you think of what she&#8217;s doing?&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s hard for me not to conclude it&#8217;s a political hit job,&#8221; Barr responded. &#8220;And this is a woman who campaigned for office saying that — promising she was going to go after Trump, which I think is a tremendous abuse of office to go head-hunting and targeting individuals. So, I think she was targeting Trump. And this is, after three years, a civil lawsuit, the gist of which is that, when the Trump Organization borrowed money, Trump personally guaranteed those loans.&#8221;
&#8220;And to support that, she&#8217;s claiming that he inflated his assets on his financial statements. Now, I&#8217;m not even sure she has a good case against Trump himself. But what ultimately persuades me that this is a political hit job is, she grossly overreaches when she tries to drag the children into this,&#8221; Barr continued. &#8220;Yes, they had roles in the business, but this was his personal financial statement. It was prepared by the CFO. Accounting firms were involved in it. The children aren&#8217;t going to know the details of that and be able — and nor are they expected in the real world to do their own due diligence and have it reviewed independently.&#8221;
&#8220;And so this — this, to me, looks like gross overreach, which I think is going to end up backfiring on them, because I think it will make people sympathetic for Trump, that this is another example of people piling on because of Trump Derangement Syndrome, this strong desire to punish him,&#8221; he concluded.
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Tim Pearce contributed to this report.

Former Attorney General Barr Speaks At The Federalist Society

Bill Barr Blasts Letitia James’ Civil Lawsuit Against The Trump Family: ‘It’s A Political Hit Job’

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Barr</a> took heat from his predecessor for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-responds-to-former-attorney-general-bill-barrs-shocking-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backing the FBI’s raid</a> of former President Trump’s Florida mansion in light of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a>’s checkered history regarding the 45th commander-in-chief.
Former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker told Just the News that Barr, who succeeded him in February, 2019, should know better than to cover for the DOJ, especially since he exposed so much of the department’s malfeasance in the Russia collusion hoax.
&#8220;Bill Barr continues for some reason to be an institutionalist when it comes to the Department of Justice, even though based on what he presided over, he should know better,&#8221; Whitaker told the site’s &#8220;<a href="https://americasvoice.news/video/ek7ni3q9zEEC5Yz">Just the News, Not Noise</a>&#8221; livestream show. &#8220;We have seen far too many examples as it relates to Donald Trump, and investigations into Donald Trump, that the Department of Justice just doesn&#8217;t seem to follow its own traditions, rules and ethical considerations.”
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Barr has defended the raid on Mar-a-Lago and said federal judge erred in granting Trump’s lawyer’s request for a neutral “special master” to go through the items the FBI took. Trump’s team claims the FBI used an overbroad search warrant to go on a fishing expedition that netted privileged and private materials.
&#8220;The opinion, I think, was wrong, and I think the government should appeal it,&#8221; Barr told Fox News this week of District Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling. &#8220;It&#8217;s deeply flawed in a number of ways. I don&#8217;t think the appointment of a special master is going to hold up.&#8221;
Whitaker said the DOJ seized Trump’s passports by mistake and reportedly also took medical records, attorney-client privileged documents, and tax records that were not authorized by the warrant. The DOJ claims it has a &#8220;taint team&#8221; in place to sift through the records seized the August 8 raid and ensure none are improperly used in investigations of the former president. But Whitaker said Trump should not trust the DOJ to conduct that process fairly and Barr should understand that.
&#8220;This was a very broad warrant,&#8221; Whitaker said. &#8220;And obviously, Judge Cannon was not impressed by the taint team&#8217;s work, and [the taint team] just forwarded much of this information on to the investigative team.&#8221;
Cannon’s ruling bars the DOJ from using any of the seized materials for its investigation until it has all been screened by the special master, who has not yet been named. In her decision, Cannon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-judge-to-appoint-special-master-to-oversee-fbi-review-of-trump-records">chided the DOJ</a> over persistent leaks about the evidence taken in the raid. In a footnote, Cannon said she had queried the DOJ about the leaks, which started immediately after the raid and included <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-fbi-raided-mar-a-lago-to-search-for-top-secret-documents-on-nuclear-weapons-report-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unsubstantiated claims</a> Trump had nuclear secrets and a photo of documents spread out on the floor of Trump’s home.
Just days after Cannon, who Trump appointed in 2020, made her ruling, anonymous DOJ sources <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/material-on-foreign-nations-nuclear-capabilities-top-secret-u-s-operations-seized-during-fbi-raid-on-mar-a-lago-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leaked</a> that documents seized from Trump&#8217;s home included classified material on a foreign government’s military defenses, as well as details on top-secret U.S. operations. The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/06/trump-nuclear-documents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> “officials familiar with the criminal investigation” in the Tuesday report.

Bill Barr

Bill Barr’s Predecessor Calls Him ‘Institutionalist’ Who Should Know Better Than To Defend Mar-A-Lago Raid

Bill Barr's Predecessor Calls Him 'Institutionalist' Who Should Know Better Than To Defend Mar-a-Lago Raid

Mar-a-Lago

Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr — who served in the role twice, once under former President George H.W. Bush and later under former President Donald Trump — responded to Trump calling him a “RINO” by saying that he has been a hardcore Republican for years.
Trump&#8217;s criticism of Barr came after Barr <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-former-attorney-general-bill-barr-makes-surprising-remarks-about-the-former-president">commented</a> Friday afternoon on the latest updates surrounding the criminal investigation into the former president&#8217;s handling of classified information at his Florida home at Mar-a-Lago.
“Bill Barr had ‘no guts,’ and got ‘no glory,’” Trump wrote on social media. “He was a weak and pathetic RINO, who was so afraid of being Impeached that he became a captive to the Radical Left Democrats … Barr never fought the way he should have for Election Integrity, and so much else. He started off OK as A.G., but faded fast – Didn’t have courage or stamina.”
Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum asked Barr on Tuesday afternoon what he thought about Trump calling him a “RINO,” to which Barr responded, “I mean I heard that — I’ve heard that a lot.”
“But, you know, I — you have to remember — a RINO for him is anyone who disagrees with him that the election was stolen, right? That’s a RINO,” Barr continued. “Now, you know, as someone who handed out Barry Goldwater literature when I was 14 years old on the Upper West Side, it’s a little silly for —”
“You don’t think your Republican credentials are in question?&#8221; MacCallum laughingly asked.
“Right,” Barr laughed.
Trump’s remarks about the former attorney general on Friday came after Barr dismissed the push from Trump’s legal team to appoint a “special master” to review the items that were seized during the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. Barr called it “a bit of a red herring.”
“The only documents that have been taken, it seems to me, that there’s a legitimate concern about keeping away from the government and insulating the government from would be documents relating to his private lawyer communications, him as an individual and his outside lawyers,” Barr said. “If there’s stuff like that, fine, identify it. There doesn’t appear to be much of it. I’m not sure you need a special master to identify it.”
“But what people are missing is that all the other documents taken, even if they claim to be executive privilege, either belong to the government because they’re government records — even if they’re classified, even if they’re subject to executive privilege, they still belong to the government and go to the Archives,” he continued. “And any other documents that were seized, like news clippings and other things that were in the boxes containing the classified information, those were seizable under the warrant because they show the conditions under which the classified information was being held. So, I think it’s a red herring … at this stage, since they have already gone through the documents, I think it’s a waste of time.”
Fox News host John Roberts asked Barr if there was “any legitimate reason” for Trump to be in possession of the documents that were recovered during the raid, including “top secret/SCI materials.”
“No. I can’t think of a legitimate reason why they should have been — could be taken out of the government, away from the government, if they’re classified,” Barr said. “I, frankly, am skeptical of this claim that ‘I declassified everything,’ because, frankly, I think it’s highly improbable. And, second, if, in fact, he sort of stood over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them, and said, ‘I hereby declassify everything in here,’ that would be such an abuse, and that — and show such recklessness, that it’s almost worse than taking the documents.”
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Former Attorney General Bill Barr Claps Back After Trump Calls Him A ‘RINO’

Fox News

Former President Donald Trump slammed former Attorney General William Barr after Barr criticized him during a Fox News interview late this week, claiming that Barr had “no guts.”
Barr’s Friday afternoon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-former-attorney-general-bill-barr-makes-surprising-remarks-about-the-former-president">remarks</a> on Fox News came after the FBI raided the former president’s Florida home at Mar-a-Lago last month and recovered numerous classified documents and U.S. government records that belonged to the National Archives, according to the Department of Justice.
“Bill Barr had &#8216;no guts,&#8217; and got &#8216;no glory,&#8217;” Trump wrote on social media. “He was a weak and pathetic RINO, who was so afraid of being Impeached that he became a captive to the Radical Left Democrats &#8230; Barr never fought the way he should have for Election Integrity, and so much else. He started off OK as A.G., but faded fast &#8211; Didn’t have courage or stamina.”
“Former A.G. Bill Barr was fired long before I left the White House on January 20th,” Trump later added. “He acted very slowly on the &#8216;No Collusion&#8217; Mueller Report in that the FBI and &#8216;Justice&#8217; had the &#8216;Laptop from Hell&#8217; in their possession, which totally exonerated me long before Mueller’s decision came out, years later &#8211; A waste of time &amp; money. The Laptop information should have been released BEFORE the Rigged Election, not after it, for the VOTERS TO SEE. He was petrified of the lunatic Dems &amp; of being Impeached!”
Trump&#8217;s remarks about the former attorney general came after Barr dismissed the push from Trump&#8217;s legal team to appoint a “special master” to review the items that were seized during the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. Barr called it “a bit of a red herring.”
“The only documents that have been taken, it seems to me, that there’s a legitimate concern about keeping away from the government and insulating the government from would be documents relating to his private lawyer communications, him as an individual and his outside lawyers,” Barr said. “If there’s stuff like that, fine, identify it. There doesn’t appear to be much of it. I’m not sure you need a special master to identify it.”
“But what people are missing is that all the other documents taken, even if they claim to be executive privilege, either belong to the government because they’re government records — even if they’re classified, even if they’re subject to executive privilege, they still belong to the government and go to the Archives,” he continued. “And any other documents that were seized, like news clippings and other things that were in the boxes containing the classified information, those were seizable under the warrant because they show the conditions under which the classified information was being held. So, I think it’s a red herring … at this stage, since they have already gone through the documents, I think it’s a waste of time.”
Fox News host John Roberts asked Barr if there was “any legitimate reason” for Trump to be in possession of the documents that were recovered during the raid, including “top secret/SCI materials.”
“No. I can’t think of a legitimate reason why they should have been — could be taken out of the government, away from the government, if they’re classified,” Barr said. “I, frankly, am skeptical of this claim that ‘I declassified everything,’ because, frankly, I think it’s highly improbable. And, second, if, in fact, he sort of stood over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them, and said, ‘I hereby declassify everything in here,’ that would be such an abuse, and that — and show such recklessness, that it’s almost worse than taking the documents.”

America First Policy Institute

Trump Responds To Former Attorney General Bill Barr’s Shocking Interview

Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr — who served in the role twice, once under former President George H.W. Bush and later under former President Donald Trump — slammed Trump in an interview Friday afternoon over his alleged handling of classified government documents.
Barr&#8217;s remarks came after the FBI raided the former president&#8217;s Florida home at Mar-a-Lago last month and recovered numerous classified documents and U.S. government records that belonged to the National Archives, according to the Department of Justice.
Barr called the former president&#8217;s request for a “special master” to review the items that were seized during the raid “a bit of a red herring.”
“The only documents that have been taken, it seems to me, that there&#8217;s a legitimate concern about keeping away from the government and insulating the government from would be documents relating to his private lawyer communications, him as an individual and his outside lawyers,” Barr said. “If there&#8217;s stuff like that, fine, identify it. There doesn&#8217;t appear to be much of it. I&#8217;m not sure you need a special master to identify it.”
“But what people are missing is that all the other documents taken, even if they claim to be executive privilege, either belong to the government because they&#8217;re government records — even if they&#8217;re classified, even if they&#8217;re subject to executive privilege, they still belong to the government and go to the Archives,” he continued. “And any other documents that were seized, like news clippings and other things that were in the boxes containing the classified information, those were seizable under the warrant because they show the conditions under which the classified information was being held. So, I think it&#8217;s a red herring &#8230; at this stage, since they have already gone through the documents, I think it&#8217;s a waste of time.”
Fox News host John Roberts asked Barr if there was “any legitimate reason” for Trump to be in possession of the documents that were recovered during the raid, including &#8220;top secret/SCI materials.&#8221;
“No. I can&#8217;t think of a legitimate reason why they should have been — could be taken out of the government, away from the government, if they&#8217;re classified,” Barr said. “I, frankly, am skeptical of this claim that &#8216;I declassified everything,&#8217; because, frankly, I think it&#8217;s highly improbable. And, second, if, in fact, he sort of stood over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them, and said, &#8216;I hereby declassify everything in here,&#8217; that would be such an abuse, and that — and show such recklessness, that it&#8217;s almost worse than taking the documents.”
Barr said that the fact that things between Trump and the Department of Justice escalated to the point where the FBI had to conduct a raid to retrieve the material from the former president likely indicates that they likely “have pretty good evidence” that a crime was committed, although his guess was just &#8220;speculation.”
“I think the driver on this from the beginning was the loads of classified information sitting in Mar-a-Lago. People say this was unprecedented. Well, it&#8217;s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, OK?” Barr continued. “And how long is the government going to try to get that back? They jawboned for a year. They were deceived on the voluntary actions taken. They then went and got a subpoena. They were deceived on that, they feel. And the record, the facts are starting to show that they were being jerked around. And so how long — you know, how long do they wait?”
When asked whether the former was potentially criminally liable or whether his actions constituted “foolishness,” Barr responded, “OK, it is clearly foolish, what happened, and inexplicable.”
“But, beyond that, they may well be able to make a case out here. But then there&#8217;s an additional question. Given the fact this is a former president, given the state of the nation, is it — and given the fact that the government has gotten its documents back, does it really make sense to bring a case as a matter of prudential judgment?” Barr added. “And that&#8217;s a question that I think will turn on how clear the evidence of obstruction or deceit is. If they clearly have the president moving stuff around and hiding stuff in his desk and telling people to dissemble with the government, they may be — they may be inclined to bring that case.”
Barr said that he hope that the Department of Justice does not bring a criminal case against the former president.
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Trump’s Former Attorney General Bill Barr Makes Surprising Remarks About The Former President

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-barr-we-need-to-treat-mexican-drug-cartels-like-isis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Barr</a>, who battled for – and with – his boss, former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-raid-affidavit-mocked-online-over-heavy-redactions-explains-so-much/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Trump</a>, while serving a tumultuous two-year stint as U.S. attorney general, divulged in a Thursday interview who he hopes emerges from a potentially crowded <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2024-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2024 field of GOP presidential candidates</a>.
The shoot-from-the hip Washington veteran made the remarks in a wide-ranging interview with Bari Weiss on her podcast “<a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vUlNWMjM0NzE0Mjg4MQ?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAkQlvsGahcKEwjQlODtxuT5AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ&amp;hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Honestly</a>.” Barr, who came out of retirement to serve the Trump administration in the same office he held under President George H.W. Bush nearly 30 years earlier, said he will support whichever candidate can keep his old boss from getting nominated.
“I don’t know <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-endorsed-30-candidates-25-won-turning-florida-school-boards-red/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> that well, but I’ve been impressed with his record down in Florida,” Barr said, adding that if he were to place a bet on who will be the next president, he’d put his chips on the Sunshine State governor.
Barr mentioned several potential presidential candidates, which include Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. Neither Trump nor any of the other potential candidates have formally announced plans to run.
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This interview of Bill Barr by <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bariweiss</a> is really remarkable, and I&#39;m surprised it&#39;s not gotten more attention. Some highlights: <a href="https://t.co/gZ9DqfPyK9">https://t.co/gZ9DqfPyK9</a>
Mr. Barr is saddened that no Democrats/media have apologized for &quot;Russiagate:&quot; <a href="https://t.co/kFnzXGSzrZ">pic.twitter.com/kFnzXGSzrZ</a>
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“I like a lot of them,” Barr said. “And my view is, I’m going to support whoever has the best chance of pushing Trump aside.”
Barr revealed what he called the most awkward moment of his time in the Trump administration, which came when in the summer of 2020 when cabinet members were discussing what could be done to quell rioting over the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.
“The president was bellowing at a number of his Cabinet secretaries and especially the military guys, the DoD secretary and chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and calling all of us f***ing losers at the top of his lungs,” Barr said.
Barr clashed with Trump while running the Department of Justice, ultimately resigning in December of 2020 after famously telling Trump claims the election he lost to President Joe Biden was rigged were “bulls***.” But while in office, Barr also told lawmakers that Trump had indeed been spied on by the FBI and he also made federal prosecutor John Durham, who is investigating the origin of the Russia collusion hoax, a special counsel. That move afforded Durham’s investigation protection from being scuttled by the Biden administration.
Barr said the Russiagate hoax was a “big lie” that hamstrung Trump&#8217;s administration even as journalists accepted Pulitzer Prizes for reporting a phony story fed to them by Democratic operatives and partisan government sources.
“I&#8217;ve been surprised that the mainstream media and the people who fanned this to the point of hysteria haven&#8217;t come back to say, &#8216;Yeah, there was a big lie in 2016 that has hurt the country and distorted our politics and foreign policy throughout the Trump administration. It was unjust. It was wrong. And we 
made a mistake.&#8217; Very few, if any, have come out to say that,” he said.
Barr said he supported most of Trump’s policy agenda, and that he should not have been impeached over the January 6 riots. Much – though not all – of the vitriol directed against Trump is irrational, according to Barr.
“The Left has lost their mind over Trump — Trump derangement syndrome is a real thing — but Trump is his own worst enemy and has provoked a lot of the venom,” Barr said.
Barr said he warned Trump in early 2020 that he could lose the election if he didn&#8217;t “adjust” his behavior. But Trump “continued to be self-indulgent and petty, and turned off key constituents that made the difference in the election,” Barr said.
In the next presidential election, Trump is not the right conservative to bring the deeply polarized country back together, Barr said.
“The problem with Trump is that it’s always about running just a base election, whip up your base, get your base all upset, get them outraged and turn them out at the polls,” Barr said. “Both sides do that. It’s a prescription for continued hostility within the country, demoralization within the country, and an impasse with the country.”
Still, Barr said that if Trump were to secure the 2024 Republican presidential nomination and run against a progressive Democrat, he’ll cast his ballot for Trump. Barr said progressivism is the greatest threat currently facing America.

Bill Barr Predicts The Next President And Describes Being Called A ‘F***ing Loser’ By Trump

Bill Barr Predicts Who Will Be Next President, And It Isn't His Old Boss

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