Posted on 03/08/2022 4:49:56 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Former Attorney General William Barr criticized the media on Monday for pushing the "lie" that former President Trump's campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential election.
"You decided when Robert Mueller chose not to analyze whether there was criminality on obstruction, you decided, ‘I’m attorney general, I’m going to make the decision,'" Savannah Guthrie asked Barr during an appearance on NBC's "Today" show. She said Barr "acknowledged" in his new book that he believed it was a "phony scandal" and asked why he decided to take the decision upon himself when "the whole point of the counsel was to take it out of the political chain of command."
"Well, it is a phony scandal. And people, in talking about the big lie after the election, forget that there was a big lie before – you know, at the beginning of the Trump administration," Barr responded.
Guthrie continued to push him on why Barr made the decision and not Mueller. "The reason he was selected by Rod Rosenstein was to give the appearance that there was no partisanship and then he went out and hired a lot of partisan Democrats," Barr said, saying half of the country didn't believe in the investigation.
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And those headlines are only a part of Hunter’s known crimes. How many others remain under the carpet?
Bill Barr and every Bush aligned “republican” can go straight to hell.
He's a POS who just happens to (finally) be telling the truth about just one aspect of the lawfare and Stalin style show trials the Demagogic Party has been doing with impunity.
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