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I should say perhaps as relevant to many here at CF: "Conservative Christian Bill Barr". He has written a book about what he saw, and gives an interview.
"Yet the book is just as notable for how much Barr still agrees with the former president. He blames left-wing progressives, not his own party, for dividing the country.
Barr worked for the CIA before his first stint as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush. His book spends much time on the culture wars, accusing radical progressives of dividing the country — making it easier to understand what he saw in Donald Trump.
But after the 2020 election, when Barr couldn't tell Trump what he wanted to hear, the attorney general finally broke with the president.
Barr said the Justice Department found no evidence of any widespread voter fraud in the election. Barr says in his book that he told the president to his face that the stolen election claims were "bull****."
The president angrily accepted Barr's resignation on the spot. He took it back moments later, but Barr resigned for real in December 2020.
"After the election, he didn't seem to listen to anybody except a group of sycophants who were telling him what he wanted to hear," Barr said.
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Then there was Trump's infamous phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In that 2019 call, Zelenskyy appealed for Javelin missiles to defend themselves against Russian tanks, weapons Ukraine now says it needs more of in its fight against the Russian invasion.
Trump (instead of saying 'it's on the way' did something else --) asked Zelenskyy for help in digging up political dirt to use in his reelection. He urged Zelenskyy to talk with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and with Barr. Barr says he had nothing to do with it.
"It was an absurd idea and it was pursued in a farcical way," Barr said. "But at the time, I didn't think it was criminal, and I still don't think it was criminal."
(The full radio interview is at the link)
Bill Barr won't back a 2024 Trump run but doesn't quite condemn his former boss
In fact, Trump didn't release the aid Congress had already passed to be delivered to Ukraine until after a long delay, to pressure the Ukrainian president.
"Yet the book is just as notable for how much Barr still agrees with the former president. He blames left-wing progressives, not his own party, for dividing the country.
Barr worked for the CIA before his first stint as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush. His book spends much time on the culture wars, accusing radical progressives of dividing the country — making it easier to understand what he saw in Donald Trump.
But after the 2020 election, when Barr couldn't tell Trump what he wanted to hear, the attorney general finally broke with the president.
Barr said the Justice Department found no evidence of any widespread voter fraud in the election. Barr says in his book that he told the president to his face that the stolen election claims were "bull****."
The president angrily accepted Barr's resignation on the spot. He took it back moments later, but Barr resigned for real in December 2020.
"After the election, he didn't seem to listen to anybody except a group of sycophants who were telling him what he wanted to hear," Barr said.
...
Then there was Trump's infamous phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In that 2019 call, Zelenskyy appealed for Javelin missiles to defend themselves against Russian tanks, weapons Ukraine now says it needs more of in its fight against the Russian invasion.
Trump (instead of saying 'it's on the way' did something else --) asked Zelenskyy for help in digging up political dirt to use in his reelection. He urged Zelenskyy to talk with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and with Barr. Barr says he had nothing to do with it.
"It was an absurd idea and it was pursued in a farcical way," Barr said. "But at the time, I didn't think it was criminal, and I still don't think it was criminal."
(The full radio interview is at the link)
Bill Barr won't back a 2024 Trump run but doesn't quite condemn his former boss
In fact, Trump didn't release the aid Congress had already passed to be delivered to Ukraine until after a long delay, to pressure the Ukrainian president.