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

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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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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

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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.

Bill Barr: It’s ‘Even More Critical’ For DOJ To Release Biden Bribery Doc After Hunter Plea Deal

Bill Barr: It's 'Even More Critical' For DOJ To Release Biden Bribery Doc After Hunter Plea Deal

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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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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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John Durham Fires Back At Dem Questioning His Reputation

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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’

Former AG Barr Unloads On Trump

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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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Bill Barr Shuts Down Claim From Top Democrat That He Ended Criminal Probe Involving Biden Bribery Doc

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Former U.S. 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 special counsel John Durham&#8217;s report on the origins of the FBI&#8217;s investigation into former President Donald Trump &#8220;vindicated&#8221; the former president and that Trump was right from the beginning about what the Left was trying to do to him.
Durham&#8217;s report found that the FBI had no evidence to support launching the investigation and found “sobering” differences in how the FBI approached the Trump probe compared to other politically sensitive investigations.
Barr told Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Tuesday evening that Durham&#8217;s report was a &#8220;success&#8221; because it got to the bottom of what happened and exposed issues that have led to changes at the DOJ and FBI, even though more changes are needed.
Barr said Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign, the media, and the FBI were the primary culprits behind the lies that drove the conspiracy theory for years and led to multiple investigations that cost tens of millions of dollars.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s not forget what the lie was. The lie was Russiagate,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;The lie was, there was collusion. There was nothing to support it.&#8221;
Barr said if what the Left did was not a witch-hunt, then it was &#8220;a damn good imitation of one.&#8221;
&#8220;This is one of the greatest injustices done to a presidential candidate and a president. And he was treated unfairly here,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;So, he is vindicated as far as Russiagate is concerned.&#8221;
Barr said that while he has his differences with the former president, he believes that &#8220;he had great policies, that he deserved a lot of credit for what he accomplished, and this was a grave injustice.&#8221;
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&#8220;And the fact that he was able to accomplish a lot in the face of it, I think was a great achievement,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;I have other problems. I&#8217;m not supporting him for renomination, but he was right on this. And this is a vindication. He had it right from the beginning.&#8221;
Several minutes later, Barr was asked again about the 2024 Republican Party primary for president and his thoughts about the former president.
Barr said that he believes the Durham report is going to help Trump in the short term, but that he believes Trump &#8220;will not win the nomination.&#8221;
&#8220;And I have nothing personal against him, and there&#8217;s no &#8212; I have no antipathy toward him at all,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;But I just don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s the right leader for the Republican Party going forward. I think people who want to restore America should look for a big victory that brings strength into the Congress and allows us to achieve some fundamental changes. And I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s capable of delivering that kind of victory.&#8221;
Barr said that he believes Trump has the best chance of losing to Biden of any of the Republicans running or who are likely to run, and that his concern is &#8220;even if he won,” Trump &#8220;would wipe out Republicans in the Congress because of the vast turnout that would occur just to vote against him.&#8221;

Bill Barr: Durham Report ‘Vindicated’ Trump, But He’s Still Not The Right Person To Lead GOP Forward

Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who served under former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>, hammered his former boss this week when asked if Trump was fit to be President of the United States.
Barr made the remarks on Friday at the City Club of Cleveland in Ohio when asked by journalist Geraldo Rivera about the former president.
&#8220;Is he fit to be President of the United States?&#8221; Rivera asked. &#8220;Is Donald Trump fit to be president?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, this is the way I&#8217;ll answer that Geraldo, which is, if you believe in his policies &#8230; he&#8217;s the last person who could actually execute them and achieve them,&#8221; Barr responded. &#8220;He does not have the discipline. He does not have the ability for strategic thinking and linear thinking or setting priorities or how to get things done in the system.&#8221;
&#8220;It is a horror show when he&#8217;s left to his own devices,&#8221; Barr continued. &#8220;And so you may want his policies, but Trump will not deliver Trump policies, he will deliver chaos, and if anything, lead to a backlash that will set his policies much further back than they otherwise would be.&#8221;
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Barr <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-attorney-general-bill-barr-indictment-designed-to-sabotage-gop-white-house-chances-in-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> back at the end of March that he believes the impetus for some of the criminal investigations into the former president, especially the case involving Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, are to &#8220;help Trump get the nomination.&#8221;
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&#8220;Most Democrats who get involved in this kind of thing, they actually want to run against Trump, because they think — whether they’re right or wrong — they think they can beat him,&#8221; Barr said. “And so they are actually trying to help him by generating the support of his base.”
“And they feel that that will generate their own turnout,&#8221; Barr added. &#8220;And so they’re essentially, I think, playing for a repeat of the 2020 election.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-ag-bill-barr-prosecutors-likely-have-very-good-evidence-trump-obstructed-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump AG Bill Barr: Prosecutors Likely Have ‘Very Good Evidence’ Trump Obstructed Justice</a>

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Barr On If Trump Becomes President Again: ‘Trump Will Not Deliver Trump Policies, He Will Deliver Chaos’

Former Trump Attorney General William Barr said over the weekend that he believes that federal prosecutors likely have &#8220;very good evidence&#8221; that the former president committed obstruction of justice in the criminal investigation into his handling of classified material.
Barr made the remarks on Easter Sunday during an interview on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week&#8221; while discussing the four criminal investigations into former President Donald Trump.
Barr said that he believes that the Manhattan case, where Trump was just indicted on 34 felony counts, was incredibly weak and that it was a &#8220;clear example&#8221; of weaponizing the justice system for political gain.
Barr said that he believes that Democrats are trying to use the investigations to &#8220;get into the middle of the Republican primary process and turn it into a circus.&#8221;
&#8220;And I think, ultimately, the savvy Democratic strategists know this is going to help Trump, and they want him to be the nominee because he is the weakest of the Republican candidates, the most likely to lose again to Biden,&#8221; Barr warned.
Barr said that Trump should be &#8220;most concerned about the document case in Mar-a-Lago because&#8221; he believes that prosecutors have serious evidence that Trump committed obstruction of justice as investigators tried to recover U.S. government records and classified materials from the former president.
The raid on Mar-a-Lago was &#8220;taken after a long period, about a year-and-a-half of trying to get the documents from him, which he had no claim to,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;He had no claim to those documents, especially the classified documents. They belonged to the government. And so, I think he was jerking the government around. And they subpoenaed it. And they tried to jawbone him into delivering documents.&#8221;
&#8220;But the government is investigating the extent to which games were played and there was obstruction in keeping documents from them,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And I think that&#8217;s a serious potential case. I think they probably have some very good evidence there.&#8221;
Barr said that there is &#8220;a very good chance&#8221; that Trump will be criminally indicted in the case.
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Trump AG Bill Barr: Prosecutors Likely Have ‘Very Good Evidence’ Trump Obstructed Justice

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Former Trump Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Barr</a> said late on Friday that the indictment against the former president was “the epitome of the abuse of prosecutorial power” because it “would not be brought against anyone else.”
Barr’s remarks to Larry Kudlow come after he argued at an event earlier in the day that the political Left’s goal was to make Trump the Republican Party’s nominee again in 2024 because they believe he is the easiest candidate to beat.
“They are going after the man, not a crime,” Barr said. “And the legal theory, frankly, is pathetically weak. The case is held together by chicken wire and paper clips and rubber bands. It&#8217;s a lousy case. And it&#8217;s a shame. It&#8217;s a shameful episode in our history, where this local prosecutor is trying to affect the political process by bringing this case.”
Barr noted that he does not believe the case is even legitimate because prosecutors have to prove not only that records were recorded falsely, but that there was an actual intent to defraud.
“But then they take this misdemeanor, which also has a problem with the statute of limitations, and they try to shoehorn it into a felony by claiming that the reason the document was falsified, the documents were falsified, was to cover up another crime,” Barr said. “In this case, they&#8217;re assuming that the payments were a campaign finance violation, because they were effectively a contribution to the Trump campaign.”
“I can tell you that&#8217;s not the law. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s how the Justice Department would view it,” he continued. “It wasn&#8217;t brought by the Justice Department during the Trump administration. But even after the Trump administration left, there was no inhibition on the Department of Justice to bring this federal claim if they thought it was valid. And it was never brought.”
Kudlow, who worked for Trump and is still a Trump ally, asked Barr if Democrats were maybe trying to take Trump out of the 2024 race because they are afraid of him.
“I think there&#8217;s some Democrats who would like to drive him from the political scene completely because of Trump derangement syndrome, and they consider him very dangerous and so forth,” Barr said. “But I actually think that &#8212; most Democrats who get involved in this kind of thing, they actually want to run against Trump, because they think — whether they&#8217;re right or wrong — they think they can beat him.&#8221;
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“And so they are actually trying to help him by generating the support of his base,” Barr continued. “And they feel that that will generate their own turnout. And so they&#8217;re essentially, I think, playing for a repeat of the 2020 election.”
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