Same here - his going on TV gives me pause. I hope he really is focused on prosecution and not on becoming a ‘celebrity lawyer.’
Hopefully https://www.thomasmore.org can come to their aid.
I did some quick research. Barnes sounds like the real deal. Grew up in poverty. From Chattanooga. Delivered newspapers with dad. His dad died when he was 12. Won cocoa cola scholarship to private school. Attended yale but left cause if elitism.describes himself as a populist.