Former Attorney General Bill Bar turned to his former boss in his upcoming memoirs, claiming Donald Trump “Lost his grip” when he began to push his baseless theories of electoral fraud in 2020, according to a Sunday report.
Bar said these theories directly led to the riots Capitol Hill ‘on January 6 last year in an excerpt from his new 600-page book, which was shared with Wall Street Journal.
“The election was not stolen. “Trump lost him,” the former Attorney General said in One Damn Thing after another. Long memoirs tell of his time as republican the chief prosecutor of the president.
Relations between Trump and Bar deteriorated after Bar, the country’s top law enforcement official at the time, told the Associated Press on December 1, 2020, that his justice ministry had found no evidence of widespread election fraud. .
Bar left office at the end of the same month, just weeks before Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in a bid to undo the 2020 results.
Trump called Bar “a disappointment in every sense of the word” last June.
In the new excerpt, Barr writes that Trump could win the election fairly if he “just shows a little self-restraint, softening even a little of his pettiness.”
He also spoke in detail about the explosive confrontation with Trump that led to his resignation shortly after the interview with the Associated Press.
“It kills me – it kills me. That pulls the carpet right under me, “Barr said, Trump shouted, just hours after further legitimizing Joe Biden’s election victory.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr is dealing with his old boss Donald Trump in his upcoming memoirs after becoming one of his fiercest critics since the 2020 election.
Bar writes that then Trump told him: “You must hate Trump. You would only do that if you hated Trump.
The experienced veteran of the Justice Department defended himself by writing that he had responded to Trump by saying that he “sacrificed a lot personally to help you when I thought you were wronged.”
He also reiterated that the Justice Department had failed to investigate allegations that the election had been rigged, as Trump’s lawyers such as Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis launched a national tour to promote conspiracy theories at the time.
Trump then embarked on a tirade full of criticism of Barr, the former attorney general recalled, until Barr finally offered to resign.
“Accepted!” Trump reportedly shouted as he slammed his desk.
“Go and don’t go back to your office. You are now ready. Go home!’
Bar’s account claims that White House lawyers responded to Trump by immediately firing the head of the Justice Department.
Until their election rift, Bar was one of Trump’s closest allies and was even criticized by Democrats, who claimed to have armed the Justice Department on behalf of the former president.
Trump said Barr was “a disappointment in every sense of the word” last year, and according to the book, he shouted at the former attorney general for saying there was no widespread election fraud.
But in his memoirs, Bar now urges fellow Republicans to walk past Trump and consider “an impressive array of younger candidates” who share similar conservative goals without Trump’s bombastic and chaotic style.
He claims that Trump “has shown that he has neither the temperament nor the persuasive strength to provide the kind of positive leadership that is needed.”
In particular, it seems, after “losing his grip” and also losing the election.
“The absurd scale to which he came to claim the ‘stolen election’ led to the Capitol Hill riots,” Bar wrote.
The House of Representatives selection committee, which has been investigating the January 6 Capitol riot, is investigating Trump’s actions after leaving Bar and before the uprising, especially the former president’s reported attempts to plant a lower-level loyalist in the Justice Department.
Barr was reportedly in talks with the Democrat-led committee, its chairman, Benny Thompson, said late last month.
After Bar left the Justice Department less than a month before Trump left, Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen took his place.
But Rosen was soon at the center of a campaign of pressure from former Justice Department attorney Jeffrey Clark. Clark first wanted Rosen to send a letter to Georgia’s secretary of state and officials in other states on the battlefield, claiming that the Justice Department was investigating “serious irregularities” in the presidential vote count and asked to convene the legislature to investigate ” new evidence “and” deliberately a matter consistent with his constitutional obligations “.
The absurd extent to which he reached his claim of “stolen elections” led to the “Capitol Hill riots” on January 6 last year, writes Bar
Rosen reportedly refused, and Trump’s subsequent threat to replace him with Clark was thwarted during a meeting in the Oval Office on January 3, 2021.
For three hours, Trump and Justice Department and White House office officials discussed the possibility of Trump replacing Rosen with Clark and whether Clark was even qualified to do so. Clark is said to have indicated that he will send his letter if he takes over the DOJ.
But Justice Department officials have “made it clear that all assistant attorneys general will resign if Trump replaces Rosen with Clark,” according to a recent report released by Democrats in the Senate.
White House Counselor Pat Chipolon and Deputy Councilor Patrick F. Philbin soon followed, with Chipolon telling Trump that Clark’s letter was a “murder-suicide pact.”
Trump never followed suit. Clark was among the members of Trump’s orbit called by the Capitol Riots Commission.
After voting to refer him to a no-confidence vote in the entire House two months ago, the commission stopped the action against Clark for insisting on pleading the fifth.
He was spotted on February 2 entering a room in the office building of the US House of Representatives, where the selected commission investigating the January 6, 2021 attack is testifying.