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Former Attorney General Bill Barr accused former President Donald Trump Thursday of practicing “extortion” on the Republican Party by endorsing his own batch of candidates in “pursuit of a personal agenda” at a time when the GOP should be making huge electoral gains. “This pursuit of a personal agenda and personal power is weakening the Republican Party at a time when it could have a historic victory and make historic progress in ‘making America great again,'” Barr said in an interview published on Bari Weiss’ “Common Sense” Substack. “The tactic that Trump is using to exert this control over the...

Former AG backs the Democrats’ Jan. 6 show trial.. Last week, former Attorney General William Barr told the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Committee he hadn’t seen evidence of voter fraud on a scale that could have affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. In late November of 2020, Barr told reporters, “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.” Before the 2020 election, voters may recall, Joe Biden openly touted “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” Voter fraud is a...

Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr bolstered the Jan. 6 House committee’s case that the 2020 presidential election was the “most secure in history.” He also did his best to debunk former President Donald Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him, the Trump-appointed Republican testified in a recorded deposition that aired nationwide on June 13. He told the committee he hadn’t seen any evidence of voter fraud on a scale that could have affected the outcome of the presidential election. Documentary filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza couldn’t disagree more. D’Souza’s latest movie, “2000 Mules,” contains detailed evidence of an...

Donald Trump turned on his daughter Ivanka Trump after her testimony to the committee investigating the January 6th insurrection revealed she didn't think the 2020 presidential election was rigged. In a 17-second clip of her interview to the committee that was played during Thursday's primetime hearing, Ivanka backs up Trump Attorney General Bill Barr's assertion that the election wasn't stolen from her father. The former president said on Friday that Ivanka was 'not involved in looking' at the results of the 2020 election. 'Ivanka Trump was not involved in looking at, or studying, Election results. She had long since checked...

The committee investigating January 6 and the attack on Congess opened with bombshell video footage on Thursday that showed a number of his most trusted aides and advisers, including his daugher Ivanka Trump, explaining that they knew the election was not stolen. ...She spoke of her perspective being changed after hearing that Bill Barr, who was Trump’s attorney general for most of 2020, until he resigned that December, had explained to her father repeatedly that he had lost the election. “I respect Attorney General Barr. So I accepted what he was saying,” Ivanka Trump told congressional investigators. The committee showed...

The first testimony shown at the first public hearings of the January 6 Committee on Thursday evening was a recorded deposition of former Attorney General William Barr, who had voluntarily agreed to testify in closed-door proceedings. It was not clear whether Barr understood that in providing a deposition, he was agreeing to an on-camera appearance in public, without context, without the protections of legal counsel, and without cross-examination by the opposition.

Former Attorney General William Barr defended special counsel John Durham after a federal jury acquitted prominent Democratic attorney Michael Sussmann, saying that despite the failure of his flagship prosecution, Durham “did an exceptionally able job.” Fox News host Jesse Watters asked Barr in an interview on Wednesday if he was disappointed in Durham or if he felt “any way responsible for how this Durham situation’s unfolding,” as he appointed the special prosecutor.

William Barr, who served as U.S. attorney general under then-President Donald Trump, is in talks to cooperate with the Congressional committee investigating the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to a Thursday report. Axios reports: Barr is likely to cooperate with the committee, according to a source familiar with his thinking. Tim Mulvey, a spokesman for the Jan. 6 committee, declined to comment. […] No firm decision has been made by the committee on whether to invite Barr to appear in the public hearings that begin in June. Barr has said Trump became angry at him for dismissing...

Former Attorney General Bill Barr suggested a special counsel may need to be appointed to discover who released the draft Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and said the leaker could potentially be charged with obstruction of justice. Chief Justice John Roberts has ordered the marshal of the court to begin an investigation to discover who leaked Justice Samuel Alito’s ruling striking down the landmark 1973 decision, but Barr said that might not be enough.

Censorship of the laptop believed to have belonged to Hunter Biden in the final weeks of the 2020 election doesn't warrant prosecutions, according to former Attorney General William Barr. Newsmax host Sean Spicer, who served as former President Donald Trump's first White House press secretary, pressed Barr on Thursday about whether there will be any "legal consequences" for the suppression of the story and for those who dismissed it as Russian disinformation. "Not that I can think of," Barr said after noting that politicians and the media have a propensity to tell lies..... Barr agreed with Spicer that Republicans can...

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Thursday on Newsmax TV’s “Spicer & Co.” that former President Donald Trump should not be the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nominee. Barr said, “Maybe your audience doesn’t want to hear this, but Trump ran weaker than the Republican ticket in Arizona, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — 75,000 Republicans went to the polls and voted straight Republican ticket in Arizona and didn’t vote for him, 60,000 in Wisconsin, 60,000 and Pennsylvania. That’s why he lost the election.”

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Outnumbered,” former Attorney General Bill Barr reacted to White House press secretary Jen Psaki suggesting Fox News reporter Peter Doocy came across as “a stupid son of a b****,” something that members of the mainstream media failed to speak out against. Barr said that former President Trump was elected “because the American people are sick and tired of the mainstream media and see the double standard.” He added the hypocrisy of the media complaining about how Trump treated them while allowing Psaki’s remarks was a result of the media being “largely an extension of the...

Former Attorney General Bill Barr is making the rounds in the mainstream media trying to defend the indefensible. Bill Barr had the Hunter Biden laptop for a year and did nothing. He allowed President Trump to be impeached by Congress when he knew the contents of Hunter’s laptop exonerated him. Bill Barr knew the laptop was real when the fake news and 51 former intel officials said it was Russian propaganda. He said nothing. Bill Barr knew Democrats were blocking GOP observers from entering ballot counting rooms in the battleground states. He did nothing. Bill Barr likely knew of the...

A few weeks back, Bill Barr hit up all the cable news shows to peddle his cruddy book.While he was speaking to Fox News, the topic of Hunter’s laptop came up, and Bill admitted Biden knew all along the laptop was real, and then he said how “disturbed” he was that Joe Biden lied to the American people.What a crock.Bill was so “disturbed” that he said absolutely NOTHING about it?He didn’t warn us or publicly call on Joe to speak the truth to the American people?He said and did nothing to back up President Trump or save the country from...

Sometimes there are too many uncertainties and obvious red flags for an issue to go unnoticed. This is one of those times. Truck driver Jesse Morgan moved mail for the US Postal Service and came out after the election and shared his story of how he hauled tens of thousands of ballots from New York to Pennsylvania before the 2020 Election. We reported on this in December 2020. As reported earlier by Cassandra Fairbanks new election fraud whistleblowers came forward on Tuesday, including one who witnessed the shipping of an estimated 144,000-288,000 completed ballots across three state lines on October...

Former Attorney General Bill Barr joined Fox News’ "America Reports" Monday to address Hunter Biden’s emails, which were originally reported by the New York Post in 2020 but admitted as authentic by the New York Times last week. Anchor John Roberts noted to Barr that “you write about this in some level of detail in the book,” and gave some background to the story before he asked Barr to respond, saying that “Joe Biden when he was a candidate, Jen Psaki both dismissed this as just Russian disinformation. Now none other than the New York Times has confirmed, yes there...

Former Attorney General Bill Barr proclaimed that the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story by legacy media and big tech corporations “definitely” had an effect on the 2020 presidential election. Barr recalled when a letter signed by more than 50 former senior U.S. intelligence officials – including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper — claimed the allegations regarding a laptop purportedly owned by President Joe Biden’s son “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” was released in October 2020. “As soon as this letter came out from the so-called intelligence specialists, the DNI, John Radcliffe...

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Friday on CNN’s “The Lead” that he would oppose former President Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican primary. Tapper said, “You definitely write that something changed after the election. He went off the rails. You write that you were disgusted by things he said or did. You said he took a dangerous turn after the election, significantly detached from reality. His constant bellicosity diminishes him in the office. In the spring of 2020, you said he was acting like a hyperactive maniac. You say he doesn’t have the temperament to lead the country going...

Former Attorney General William Barr claims in a new book that he yelled at his boss, then-President Donald Trump over a discussion regarding Hunter Biden shortly before the November 2020 election. “In his upcoming book, ‘One Damn Thing After Another,’ Barr recalled that in October 2020, Trump called soon after a Newsmax segment on Hunter Biden’s laptop,” Fox News reported Wednesday. “Reports about the computer revolved around emails that appeared to connect Joe Biden to his son’s business dealings when the elder Biden was vice president,” the report continued. “You know this stuff from Hunter Biden’s laptop?” Trump asked Barr,...

William Barr says Trump booted him for calling ‘bulls–t’ on voter fraud Former Attorney General ​William Barr said President Donald Trump became furious when he called claims of widespread voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election “bulls–t” — an accusation that Trump responded to by calling Barr a “coward.” “I told him that all this stuff was bull​s–t ​… about election fraud. And, you know, it was wrong to be shoveling it out the way his team was,” Barr, who is promoting a new tell-all book, ​told ​NBC News’ Lester Holt ​in an excerpt of an interview that will air...