Former Attorney General William Barr was spotted leaving a meeting with investigators from the House select committee probing the events surrounding the 2021 Capitol riot.
, Barr described Trump's election fraud claims as"bulls**t." Although he had the Justice Department probe some of the allegations, Barr ultimately determined there was"no evidence" that President, Barr wrote about confronting Trump over the claims before he resigned in December 2020.
"Our mission is to investigate and prosecute actual fraud," Barr wrote that he told the president."The fact is, we have looked at the major claims your people are making, and they are bulls**t." Barr went on to criticize Trump's legal team, which filed dozens of unsuccessful election challenge lawsuits."The reason you are in this position is that you wheeled out a clown show, and no quality lawyers who would otherwise be willing to help will get anywhere near it," he wrote that he told the president.
Barr has since said he does not believe Trump should be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024—an idea that the former president and his allies have repeatedly floated. "I think that he would be one of the weaker candidates. We have a lot of young candidates who will fight for principle but don't have the sort of obnoxious personal characteristics that alienate a lot of voters," he told NPR in March.
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