The guy was Donald Trump’s wing man….
He served up the United States Justice Dept. for a crocked President….
Now?
It seems that ex-Attorney General Barr is out trying to sell the idea that he actually wasn’t Trump’s stooge….
A LOT of us ain’t going for this…..
Did he stop believing Trump’s head was screwed on right after he concluded that Trump was a goner and he was going to have to explain his bad judgment ? …
Former Attorney General William Barr, in a newly released book excerpt, said he suspected then-President Donald Trump’s claims of widespread election fraud were “all bullsh*t,” but that he launched unofficial inquiries into some of them to appease his boss.
The comments from Barr — published in The Atlantic as part of an excerpt from “Betrayal,” a book set to publish in November focusing on the final days of the Trump administration from ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl — provide insight into the Trump loyalist’s mindset in the waning days of the administration, when he delivered the most credible blow to Trump’s unfounded claims that the 2020 election was littered with fraud during an interview with the Associated Press.
“But Barr told me he had already concluded that it was highly unlikely that evidence existed that would tip the scales in the election. He had expected Trump to lose and therefore was not surprised by the outcome. He also knew that at some point, Trump was going to confront him about the allegations, and he wanted to be able to say that he had looked into them and that they were unfounded,” the excerpt from Karl reads.
“So, in addition to giving prosecutors approval to open investigations into clear and credible allegations of substantial fraud, Barr began his own, unofficial inquiry into the major claims that the president and his allies were making.”….
image….Salon