Former U.S. Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Barr</a> blamed America&#8217;s fentanyl crisis solely on communist China during congressional testimony this week.
Barr made the remarks while testifying on Tuesday in front of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party on a 64-page report titled, &#8220;The CCP&#8217;s Role In The Fentanyl Crisis.&#8221;
Barr said that the death toll in the U.S. every year from drug overdoses was higher than the number of Americans killed during the bloodiest year of World War II.
&#8220;The [People&#8217;s Republic of China] is the source of the fentanyl that is slaughtering Americans,&#8221; he said. &#8220;China produces nearly all the illicit fentanyl precursors used and the fentanyl introduced into the United States. These are the indispensable ingredients that drive the fentanyl trade.&#8221;
&#8220;There is no practical alternative for anywhere near the volume of precursors necessary to fuel this trade,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Simply put, without China&#8217;s production and export of fentanyl and fentanyl precursors, there would be no fentanyl crisis in the United States and the mass slaughter would effectively stop.&#8221;
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“We are now sustaining a casualty rate from drug overdoses that exceeds the death toll we suffered in waging a world war.
We have long known that the PRC is the source of the fentanyl that is slaughtering Americans.” — Former AG William P. Barr <a href="https://t.co/6UCgWUNBB8">pic.twitter.com/6UCgWUNBB8</a>
&mdash; Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) <a href="https://twitter.com/committeeonccp/status/1780220062013481087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Barr said that the Chinese Communist Party was not just a &#8220;bystander&#8221; in the entire ordeal — they are prime movers.
&#8220;They are knee deep and actively sponsoring, encouraging, and facilitating the production and export of fentanyl and fentanyl precursors for distribution in the United States,&#8221; he said. &#8220;First, the committee&#8217;s investigators have found a hidden [Chinese] government website currently fully active that offers complete tax rebates incentivizing the export of all fentanyl analogs and precursors, as well as other synthetic narcotics — drugs that are illegal in the U.S., illegal in China, and have no legitimate purpose.&#8221;
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He said that the tax incentives offered to Chinese companies &#8220;allow companies to effectively operate tax free when they export fentanyl precursors.&#8221;
He added that the investigation found evidence that shows China &#8220;provides grants and awards to companies that are engaged in open and notorious synthetic narcotic manufacturing and drug trafficking.”
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“The CCP are not just bystanders. They are prime movers. 
They are knee-deep in actively sponsoring, encouraging and facilitating the production and export of fentanyl and fentanyl precursors for distribution in the US.”— Former AG Bill Barr <a href="https://t.co/jLYlXICWmx">pic.twitter.com/jLYlXICWmx</a>
&mdash; Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) <a href="https://twitter.com/committeeonccp/status/1780233686278926488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Barr said that there was evidence that China was intentionally engaged in this activity and that the U.S. should not expect China to operate in good faith or to have &#8220;goodwill&#8221; toward the U.S.
&#8220;The key point here is that the PRC and the CCP have the capacity to shut this down,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is not taking place in the rain forests of Burma. This is taking place among a manageable number of companies in industrial parks in a modern surveillance state. The Chinese can push a button with a keystroke find somebody in one of their cities within less than a minute, know exactly where they are. They know what&#8217;s on the internet. There&#8217;s no question they&#8217;re aware of what&#8217;s happening.&#8221;
He also said that since President Joe Biden met with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping that he has not been aware of any changes that China has made in its malicious behavior flooding the U.S. with fentanyl.

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Bill Barr Blasts China During Fentanyl Hearing: Solely Responsible For ‘Mass Slaughter’ In U.S.

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Former U.S. Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Barr</a> suggested during a speech late last week that in a rematch between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, he&#8217;ll back his former boss.
Barr, who has been critical of Trump since Trump left office in January 2021, made the remarks while speaking at a Forum Club of Southwest Florida lunch in Naples.
Barr has in the past held off on saying who he would support should Trump win the Republican Party presidential primary.
However, now that Trump is on the verge of officially wrapping up the primary, Barr said that even though Trump presents a risk to the country, Biden is far worse.
&#8220;Voting for Trump is playing Russian roulette with the country,&#8221; Barr said, according to a report from Axios. &#8220;Voting for Biden is outright national suicide.&#8221;
The former president faces numerous legal hurdles in between now and election day this November as he&#8217;s been indicted in four separate criminal cases and has experienced recent setbacks in civil courts that have cost him hundreds of millions of dollars — rulings that are being appealed.
Despite the challenges that he faces and the chaos that seemingly follows him, Trump maintains an advantage over Biden in the polls as voters overwhelming disapprove of how the president is handling many top issues facing the country, including the economy/inflation and the border/immigration.
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Barr has been clear that he believes Trump is solely responsible for some of the trouble that he finds himself in, like in the federal case about his handling of classified material, while he has defended him in other criminal cases, like the hush money case from the Manhattan District Attorney&#8217;s Office and the two election cases.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t like the idea of us putting former presidents in prison,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;I hope this doesn&#8217;t end up with him in prison even if he is convicted.&#8221;

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Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr Tips His Hand At Who He’ll Back For 2024

Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr Tips His Hand At Who He'll Back For 2024

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Joe Biden

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Former Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Barr</a> said over the weekend that former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> — should he win the Republican Party presidential primary and later become president again — &#8220;needs&#8221; to surround himself with people in a second term that are able to tell him &#8220;no.&#8221;
Barr <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6343786905112">told</a> Fox News on Saturday that the former president, should he retake the White House, &#8220;needs people around him who will push back and help keep him on the straight and narrow.&#8221;
&#8220;During his first term, the main way that could be done is by pointing out to him how this would hurt his prospects for a second term,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;Once he wins a second term, I don’t know — you know — what considerations can be used to push back against bad ideas.&#8221;
Barr said that he was concerned that if Trump were re-elected that he would not be interested in moving the country forward and instead focus on retribution.
&#8220;I’m worried that his style of governance, his continuing to pander to anger and frustration versus a constructive approach to solving our problems, is going to be chaotic and not accomplish very much,” Barr said. “He’ll be a lame duck president.”
Barr added that should Trump retake the White House, the next U.S. attorney general needs to be able to push back against the president&#8217;s wishes when they fall outside the Constitution.
“He has to be ready to say &#8216;no&#8217; and to resign,” Barr said. “Trump has made it plain that he’s going to respond to what he considers the left wings’ ‘no holds barred’ approach by fighting fire with fire. I think for people going into that administration. I think they have to be ready to oppose the abuse of government power.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-attorney-general-william-barr-blasts-colorado-supreme-court-ruling-legally-wrong-and-untenable">Former Attorney General William Barr Blasts Colorado Supreme Court Ruling: ‘Legally Wrong And Untenable’</a>

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Bill Barr Outlines What Trump 'Needs' If He Wins 2024 GOP Primary And General Election

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U.S.

Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr slammed the Colorado Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling this week that former President Donald Trump was ineligible to be on the presidential primary ballot next year because of his actions on January 6, 2021, as they relate to the 14th Amendment.
The 4-3 ruling will be placed on hold pending appeal until January 4, the Court said in its ruling.
“A majority of the court holds that President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution,” the ruling said. “Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Colorado Secretary of State to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot.”
Barr appeared on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;The Lead&#8221; with host Jake Tapper on Wednesday to give his analysis of the situation.
&#8220;As you know, I strongly oppose Donald Trump for the Republican nomination,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;But I think this case is legally wrong and untenable. I think this kind of action of stretching the law, taking these hyper-aggressive positions to try to knock Trump out of the race are counterproductive. They backfire. As you know, he feeds on grievance, just like a fire feeds on oxygen. This is going to end up as a grievance that helps him.&#8221;
Barr said that he disagreed with the court&#8217;s ability to make the findings in their ruling because they were denying the former president due process.
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&#8220;The core problem here is the denial of due process, to deprive somebody of the right to hold public office requires due process,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It requires an adjudication of two core issues. One, was there an insurrection? Did the public disturbance rise to the level of an insurrection? And second, what was the role of the individual there? Was it engagement? Did they do something to break their oath of office?&#8221;
&#8220;Those are complicated facts and this was denied due process,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was a five-day hearing. There was no jury, it was before the judge. They were not able to subpoena witnesses and compel the attendance of witnesses. They relied on the hearings, the January 6 Committee hearings, which is mostly hearsay. There was no right to cross examine during those hearings and so forth.&#8221;
Barr said that if the U.S. Supreme Court decides to hear the case that &#8220;they&#8217;re going to slap it down very quickly, and I hope they do take it up quickly and slap it down, because otherwise, he could be left off the ballot in this primary.&#8221;
&#8220;Denial of due process is fatal here,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But as you&#8217;ve alluded to in your opening comments, the 14th Amendment is not something that can be applied willy-nilly by the states through sort of ad hoc proceedings. It was contemplated the federal government set up the enforcement mechanism. So, you have some standard, you know, what is the proof that&#8217;s required? What&#8217;s the procedure that&#8217;s required? And hopefully, some calibration of what exactly the insurrection is.&#8221;
Barr noted that while special counsel Jack Smith has charged the former president with numerous felonies, none of those charges involve insurrection or incitement.
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Former Attorney General William Barr Blasts Colorado Supreme Court Ruling: ‘Legally Wrong And Untenable’

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Former Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Barr</a> was asked Thursday to weigh in on the question of whether the investigations into his one-time boss, former President Donald Trump, constituted election interference.
&#8220;Now, you can argue about whether he should have been charged and so forth,&#8221; said Barr, &#8220;but the idea that this is interfering with the election is simply wrong.&#8221;
Barr, who has traded barbs with Trump on several occasions, but has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/barr-defends-trump-over-fulton-county-indictment-predicts-federal-conviction-by-next-summer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> him against the charges he faces in two of the four criminal cases against him, made the remarks during a Fox News interview with John Roberts when asked about &#8220;the legal trials and tribulations&#8221; of his former boss.
&#8220;I wanted to ask you about the legal trials and tribulations of your former boss now that Judge Tanya Chutkan has set March 4, the day before Super Tuesday, as the day for the president&#8217;s trial on the election to begin here in Washington, D.C.,&#8221; Roberts said. &#8220;I guess a lot of the momentum in the primary season will have already been established. But Super Tuesday is very important. And Trump supporters say this is all political. This is meant to disrupt the primary.&#8221;
Roberts then played a clip from Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie about whether the investigations constitute election interference.
&#8220;What interferes with the primary process is Donald Trump&#8217;s conduct, and his insistence on continuing to run for President of the United States, despite the fact that he&#8217;s been indicted in four different jurisdictions, and is out on bail in four different jurisdictions in this country, whether you believe the charges are just or not, they are here,&#8221; Christie, a vocal critic of Trump, said in the clip.
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Barr responded by saying he thinks &#8220;the governor is right.&#8221;
&#8220;The basic principle in the criminal justice system is if a prominent person commits a crime, and is seeking office, that doesn&#8217;t give him immunity,&#8221; said Barr. &#8220;If there&#8217;s enough time to have it resolved before the election, it should be resolved. The idea that &#8216;oh, okay, well, I&#8217;m sorry, we&#8217;ll let you run in the election and then after we&#8217;ll address it,&#8217; that&#8217;s not a principle of the criminal [justice system].
Calling the idea of blanket immunity for candidates &#8220;silly,&#8221; Barr added, &#8220;Now, you can argue about whether he should have been charged and so forth, but the idea that this is interfering with the election is simply wrong.&#8221;
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Bill Barr Weighs In On If He Believes Trump Trials Are Election Interference

Former Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Barr</a> defended his former boss, then-President Donald Trump, in response to the latest indictment out of Fulton County, Georgia, against the 77-year-old Republican presidential candidate, but predicts that he will be convicted in one of the two federal cases that he faces by next summer.
Barr made the remarks during an interview on Fox News Thursday afternoon after Trump was charged at the start of the week with 13 felonies in Georgia over his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
&#8220;Well, I&#8217;m not happy with the Georgia case,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s much too sweeping, much too broad, excessive case that is — make it look like people are piling on and being excessive to Trump and feed the narrative that he&#8217;s being victimized here. And I also think there&#8217;s merit in the point that this is a case that I don&#8217;t think is going to be triable before the election. It&#8217;s just too sprawling.&#8221;
Barr also hit back again on the charges out of the Manhattan District Attorney&#8217;s Office, saying that it was a political hit job.
Barr said that he believes Trump will be convicted on some of the dozens of felony counts that he faces in the federal criminal investigations into his handling of classified material and his alleged actions to overturn the election.
&#8220;I think the federal cases are legitimate,&#8221; he said. &#8220;At the end of the day, at the core of this thing, he engaged, in the case of the documents, in outrageous behavior where anyone would be prosecuted. I don’t know of any attorney general who could walk away from it. He’s not being prosecuted for having the documents. He’s being prosecuted for obstruction &#8212; two egregious instances are alleged. So, I think that’s a very simple case, and that should be tried. If the judge is anywhere competent, that can be concluded before the summer, and the other case after the election, he, in my opinion, he did cross the line. It wasn’t just rough and tumble politics. He crossed the line.&#8221;
Barr said that if the decision was up to him, Trump would not go to jail and instead would pay a &#8220;very substantial penalty.&#8221;
Barr also added that the lawyers in the White House at the time after the election warned Trump &#8220;that if he kept on doing this, he would spend the rest of his life tangling with the criminal justice process.&#8221;
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&#8220;And that’s exactly what’s happened,&#8221; Barr added. &#8220;He shouldn’t be surprised and no one else should be surprised.&#8221;
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Barr Defends Trump Over Fulton County Indictment, Predicts Federal Conviction By Next Summer

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Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr said he did not appoint a special counsel in the criminal investigation into Joe Biden&#8217;s son because that would have given the Biden administration justification to cancel the probe once Biden was sworn in as president.
Barr made the remarks during a Sunday CBS News interview with Major Garrett on &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; when he was asked if he regretted not appointing a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden given the allegations that have come out in recent months.
&#8220;No,&#8221; Barr responded. &#8220;When I was the attorney- in order to appoint a special counsel, you have to have a conflict, or should have, a conflict of interest. I had no conflict of interest investigating Hunter Biden. If there was a conflict it would be [Attorney General Merrick] Garland&#8217;s, and he had to make the decision when he took office as to whether or not it could be fairly handled in the department or whether or not a special counsel was necessary.&#8221;
&#8220;I felt that if I prejudged that and preempted his decision, it would actually set things up that he would have probably, or the administration, would have just canceled the investigation, and I felt he would keep our U.S. Attorney in place,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But once Garland came in, he had the responsibility of determining whether a thorough investigation was being done and was being done fairly.&#8221;
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Barr said that he agreed with House Republicans that a special counsel should have been appointed under Attorney General Merrick Garland but there may not be enough time to do it now because of the statute of limitations.
Barr said that Hunter Biden&#8217;s &#8220;cashing in on the office&#8221; was &#8220;grotesque&#8221; and that &#8220;it has to be investigated as to whether there was a crime there.&#8221;
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Bill Barr Explains Why He Did Not Appoint Special Counsel In Hunter Biden Probe

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Merrick Garland

Former Trump Attorney General William Barr weighed in on a federal grand jury charging former President Donald Trump with multiple felonies this week over his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The 77-year-old former president was charged on Tuesday with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
During an interview Wednesday night on CNN, Barr highlighted some potential problems with the case and the challenges it presents for the former president.
Barr said it was a &#8220;legitimate case&#8221; but was complicated and could have &#8220;issues of proof.&#8221;
&#8220;There are some downsides to it. I think there were reasons not to bring it,&#8221; he told host Kaitlan Collins. &#8220;I have said before I&#8217;m a little concerned about the slippery slope of criminalizing legitimate political activity.&#8221;
Barr said the Department of Justice would have a much harder time convincing the public that this case is fair and that the law is being applied equally because prosecutors &#8220;dropped the ball on the Hunter Biden investigation.&#8221;
Barr then addressed the argument from Trump and his allies after Collins pointed out that they are &#8220;saying he was just exercising his First Amendment right.&#8221;
&#8220;No, I really don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a valid argument,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;As the indictment says, they&#8217;re not attacking his First Amendment right. He can say whatever he wants. He can even lie. He can even tell people that the election was stolen, when he knew better. But that does not protect you from entering into a conspiracy. All conspiracies involve speech, and all fraud involves speech.&#8221;
Barr also discussed Trump listening to the advice of attorneys like John Eastman.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that dog is going to hunt,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;First, as to people who had some knowledge of whether or not there was fraud, everyone was telling him that the election was not stolen by fraud. &#8230; He would search for a lawyer who would give him the advice he wanted. But I&#8217;m not even sure you would characterize what Eastman said as advice. I mean, it&#8217;d be interesting to see, but I interpret of some of what he was saying as essentially, &#8216;well, you know, it&#8217;s unclear here, and you could make this argument. I&#8217;m not saying the courts would accept it&#8217; and so forth.&#8221;
&#8220;And you act on that, it&#8217;s your own hazard,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Also, I don&#8217;t think this defense of advice of counsel is going to go forward, because I think the president would have to get on the stand and subject himself to cross-examination in order to raise that. And he&#8217;d also have to waive attorney-client privilege.&#8221;
Barr said that he was positive that if Trump took the stand, he would do serious damage to himself from a legal perspective because a very skilled cross-examiner would grill him over &#8220;all the different versions of events he&#8217;s given over the last few years.&#8221;
Barr cautioned that people need to wait before making up their minds about the case because &#8220;we&#8217;re only seeing the tip of the iceberg on this indictment.&#8221;
When asked if he thought special counsel Jack Smith had &#8220;more&#8221; evidence that he was not showing, Barr responded, &#8220;Oh, yes. I would believe he has a lot more.&#8221;
Barr also said he believes that Trump knew that he lost the 2020 presidential election because of the public comments from some of his top outside political advisers at the time. They said &#8220;he was going to claim it was stolen if he was falling behind on election night, and that that was the plan of action,&#8221; Barr said, adding, &#8220;That&#8217;s my personal opinion.&#8221;
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Bill Barr On Trump J6 Indictment: ‘We’re Only Seeing The Tip Of The Iceberg’

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January 6

Kaitlan Collins

Former Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Barr</a> said this week that it was &#8220;even more critical&#8221; now for federal investigators to release the FBI document alleging an illegal bribery scheme between then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national after the Department of Justice reached a plea deal with the president&#8217;s son this week.
Hunter Biden, who has been facing a multi-year investigation by officials, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-reaches-plea-deal-over-tax-crimes-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">negotiated</a> a deal with Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, a Trump nominee. Hunter will plead guilty to failing to pay about $100,000 in taxes for 2017 and for failing to pay a similar amount for 2018. The tax charges Hunter faces are misdemeanors.
“Well, I think the indictment of President Trump, which was a grave, significant act, really demands that the department assure everybody that the investigations into the Bidens was thorough and that the final decisions reached were reasonable – and I agree with Jonathan Turley, it’s not looking that good,” Barr <a href="https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/06/21/barr-admits-double-standard-of-justice-exists-after-hunter-biden-deal-urges-garland-to-address-it-1370423/">said</a> during an interview on Fox News.
&#8220;The key question as you say is, is this just the end of the gun and the tax case, or is this end of the whole shebang?&#8221; Barr continued. &#8220;All the other things that were swirling around that the press reported on: Alleged bribery, alleged money laundering and influence peddling, and even allegations by whistleblowers of internal hanky-panky in the investigation.&#8221;
&#8220;This demands a thorough accounting, and so I don’t think the department can do what its normal act would be here or normal posture would be, which is to say nothing,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I think the public interest demands that they assure people of the integrity of this investigation and the fairness of the final decision.&#8221;
Weiss&#8217; office released a statement on Tuesday <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-de/pr/tax-and-firearm-charges-filed-against-robert-hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> that the investigation was &#8220;ongoing.&#8221;
Barr urged House Republicans to continue their investigations into the Biden family since the administration is likely going to stonewall efforts to make more information public.
“Half the country believes there’s a double standard of justice, or more than half of the country,” he added. “I believe there’s a double standard and I’ve been an insider. And I said even before these pleas were announced, it was critical that the department provide assurance to the American people that these cases are gonna [be] fairly and thoroughly followed through on, and now this burden is especially heavy.”
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Barr told Fox News Digital that he believes Attorney General Merrick Garland needs to take quick, &#8220;concrete steps to address&#8221; the allegations of a double-standard in the criminal justice system.
&#8220;Under these circumstances, I think the AG should consider providing Chairman Comer, and his Senate supporters, the 1023 report they’ve been seeking, subject to terms necessary to protect the life and safety of a confidential source,&#8221; Barr said.

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Special counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-durham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Durham</a> received a round of applause with his response to a House Democrat who scolded him during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) warned Durham that his association with former President Donald Trump and former Attorney General William Barr threatened to damage his &#8220;good&#8221; image. &#8220;You will end up on the bottom of a pyre,&#8221; Cohen said.
Given a chance to offer a reply, Durham explained why he was not worried about it.
&#8220;My concern about my reputation is with the people who I respect and my family and my Lord, and I&#8217;m perfectly comfortable with my reputation with them, sir,&#8221; Durham said.
&#8220;Well said, God bless you,&#8221; Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) said, after which a round of applause could be heard. Another lawmaker was then called upon to address the witness.
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Special Counsel John Durham gives a PERFECT response to an angry tirade by Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen:
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Durham appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday to talk about his report criticizing the FBI for how it conducted its investigation into alleged links between Trump&#8217;s 2016 campaign and Russia.
Leading up to the back-and-forth about Durham&#8217;s reputation, Cohen and Durham talked about how Trump appointed Durham to be U.S. attorney in Connecticut and Barr later appointed Durham to be special counsel.
Cohen pressed Durham on whether he believes Trump is a good judge of character. The congressman got into how Barr has fallen out of favor with the former president. Cohen listed examples of how Trump has denigrated Barr, calling him a &#8220;gutless pig,&#8221; a &#8220;coward,&#8221; and a &#8220;RINO&#8221; — which is a derogatory term that stands for &#8220;Republican in name only.&#8221;
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Though Durham refused to opine on Trump&#8217;s character, he did comment on Trump&#8217;s insults against Barr. &#8220;In my experience, none of those are correct,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;So Mr. Trump isn&#8217;t that good of an expert on character and judging people?&#8221; Cohen asked. After Durham shrugged and declined to respond, Cohen surmised that Durham&#8217;s opinion is that Trump is a bad judge of character based on his defense of Barr.
&#8220;That&#8217;s outside the scope of my report,&#8221; Durham quipped with a smile. More laughter followed.

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Former Attorney General William Barr unloaded on former President Donald Trump during an interview on Sunday over the former president&#8217;s conduct and alleged criminal behavior.
Barr made the remarks during an interview on CBS News&#8217;s &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; while discussing the federal indictment against the president and two other criminal cases.
Barr&#8217;s remarks come after Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/slob-gutless-pig-enraged-trump-fumes-at-bill-barr-after-ex-ag-brands-indictment-damning">attacked</a> Barr a week ago after Barr gave an unfavorable analysis of the legal situation that Trump faces. Trump called Barr &#8220;a slob,&#8221; &#8220;a stupid person,&#8221; &#8220;a coward,&#8221; &#8220;a low life,&#8221; and a &#8220;gutless pig.&#8221;
The former attorney general, who served under Trump and former President George H.W. Bush, said that it was true that Trump &#8220;has been the victim of unfair witch hunts in the past.&#8221;
&#8220;But that doesn&#8217;t obviate the fact that he&#8217;s also a fundamentally flawed person who engages in reckless conduct, and that leads to situations, calamitous situations like this, which are very destructive and hurt any political cause he&#8217;s associated with,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;And this was a case, entirely of his own making. He had no right to those documents. The government tried for over a year, quietly and with respect, to get them back, which was essential that they do, and he jerked them around.&#8221;
Barr said the former president had &#8220;no legal basis&#8221; to retain the documents, and he believes Trump lied to the Department of Justice.
Barr said the criminal obstruction charges against Trump are &#8220;very strong&#8221; because &#8220;a lot of the evidence comes from his own lawyers.&#8221;
The former attorney general strongly disputed Trump&#8217;s idea that he should be shielded by the Presidential Records Act, saying that the &#8220;whole purpose&#8221; of the statute, which was passed after the Watergate scandal, was &#8220;to stop presidents from taking official documents out of the White House.&#8221;
When asked about Trump&#8217;s sentence if he&#8217;s convicted, Barr did not give a direct answer but did say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t like the idea of a former president serving time in prison.&#8221;
&#8220;Trump has many good qualities, and he accomplished some good things,&#8221; Barr said a few moments later. &#8220;But the fact of the matter is, he is a consummate narcissist. And he constantly engages in reckless conduct that puts his political followers at risk and the conservative and Republican agenda at risk.&#8221;
Barr said that Trump &#8220;will always put his own interests, and gratifying his own ego, ahead of everything else, including the country&#8217;s interest, there&#8217;s no question about it.&#8221;
He said that the entire situation that Trump finds himself in now was &#8220;a perfect example of that.&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s like a nine-year-old, defiant nine-year-old kid who&#8217;s always pushing the glass toward the edge of the table, defying his parents to stop him from doing it,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a means of self-assertion and exerting his dominance over other people. And he&#8217;s a very petty individual who will always put his interests ahead of the country&#8217;s, his personal gratification of his ego. But our country can&#8217;t be a therapy session for a troubled man like this.&#8221;
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Barr went on to say he believes Trump will be prosecuted in the federal criminal investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election but cautioned the case will be hard to prosecute due to the First Amendment. He also said that he thinks charges will likely be filed in the criminal investigation in Georgia into the matter, but added that he was skeptical of that case.
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Former AG Barr Unloads On Trump: ‘Our Country Can’t Be A Therapy Session For A Troubled Man Like This’

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Former Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Barr</a> is pushing back on remarks that House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) made this week claiming that Barr had shut down an investigation into a document from an FBI confidential source that alleged that then-Vice President Joe Biden was involved in a criminal bribery scheme.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not true. It wasn’t closed down,&#8221; Barr <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/07/barr-rebuts-raskins-claim-that-biden-bribery-probe-ended/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in an interview. “On the contrary, it was sent to Delaware for further investigation.”
Barr&#8217;s remarks came in response Raskin claiming on Monday that Barr ended an investigation into an FBI document that allegedly claims that Biden accepted a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-to-review-fbi-doc-containing-5-million-biden-bribery-allegation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$5 million</a> bribe from an adversarial country.
“What I know is that the FBI, Department of Justice team under William Barr and Scott Brady, in the Western District of Pennsylvania terminated the investigation, they said there were no grounds for further investigative steps,&#8221; Raskin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jamie-raskin-refuses-to-give-details-about-what-was-in-fbi-document-alleging-biden-corruption" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> after viewing the document with Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY). &#8220;So they ended that.”
Comer told reporters after viewing the document that he would hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress after the bureau refused to hand over the document. The FBI is now reportedly willing to let the entire Committee view the document as early as Wednesday, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/07/politics/fbi-oversight-committee-document/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said that if Wray shows the entire Committee the document, Republicans will drop their efforts to hold Wray in contempt.
“All he has to do is follow through and allow everybody on the committee” to view it, McCarthy said. “If he would supply that to them, there wouldn’t be a contempt [vote]. That’s all we’re asking him to do. It’s rational. It’s sensible. It’s what his responsibility is to do. If he won’t follow through on the most basic things, then he’ll be held in contempt.”
Comer also told reporters on Monday that “FBI officials confirmed that the unclassified FBI generated record has not been disproven, and is currently being used in an ongoing investigation.”
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“The confidential human source who provided information about then-Vice President Biden being involved in a criminal bribery scheme, is a trusted, highly credible informant who has been used by the FBI for over 10 years, and has been paid over six figures,” he added.

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