Bill Barr Speaks Candidly With Fox News

Attorney General (AG) William Barr gave his first television interview from San Salvador, El Salvador, which aired friday morning. The tough as nails AG sat down with Fox News’ Bill Hemmer and discussed the many questions the Mueller report raised for him, and his determination to figure it all out. Among the things he wishes to address is whether or not federal authorities and lawmakers had their “thumb on the scale” during the Russia probe. Barr says he will not speculate, however, on whether or not there was spying on the Trump campaign, though the president insisted repeatedly that there was. Here are a few important takeaways.

Barr’s first concern was that the investigation into the Trump campaign and possible ties to Russia wasn’t “handled in the ordinary way.” Here is what he said: “It wasn’t handled in the ordinary way that investigations or counter intelligence activities are conducted. It was sort of an ad hoc small group. Most of these people are no longer with the FBI or the CIA, or the other agencies involved.”

Barr asserts that the questions he has are not being answered to his satisfaction. “What I will say is I’ve been trying to get answers to questions and I found that a lot of the answers have been inadequate and I have also found that some of the explanations I’ve gotten don’t hang together. In a sense I have more questions today than I did when I first started.”

Barr believes Special Counsel (SC) Robert Mueller neglected to look at the governments activities, focusing instead on the Trump campaign. “The fact of the matter is [special counsel] Bob Mueller did not look at the government’s activities. He was looking at whether or not the Trump campaign had conspired with the Russians.He was not going back and looking at the counter intelligence program.”

Barr has begun several investigations into the counter intelligence program. “We have a number of investigations underway that touch upon it. The main one being the office of inspector general that’s looking at the FISA warrants. But as far as I’m aware, no one has really looked across the whole waterfront.” Which, in layman’s terms, means there was no oversight of the investigation or of Mueller and his team.

Barr is of the opinion that the governments own activities should be looked into. “I think people have to find out what the government was doing during that period. If we’re worried about foreign influence for the very same reason we should be worried about whether government officials abused their power and put their thumb on the scale and so… I’m not saying that happened. But I’m saying that we have to look at that.”

Barr Condemns A Laughable Charge

AG Barr also addressed Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claim he lied to congress, condemning it as laughable. “I think it’s a laughable charge and I think it’s largely being made to try to discredit me partly because they may be concerned about the outcome of a review of what happened during the election. But obviously you can look at the face of my testimony and see on its face there is nothing inaccurate about it,” says Barr. AG Barr has taken unprecedented steps to insure transparency when he did not have to, which would seem to make Pelosi’s claim indeed laughable.

Speaking of laughable charges, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace had a few of his own to add. He claimed on “America’s News Room” Friday that Barr “clearly is protecting this president and advocating his point of view.” The popular anchor goes on to say that “for two years, Donald Trump sat there and said I don’t have an attorney general, I don’t have somebody out there looking for and protecting my interests.” adding “He clearly has that now with Bill Barr.”



What A Whopper

And here is a doozy for you. Wallace actually said this: “Not saying that Barr isn’t right in everything he says, but he clearly is protecting this president and advocating his point of view on a lot of these issues.” Isn’t that a gem? He isn’t saying that Barr isn’t RIGHT about things. Just that he had the audacity to use the truth to protect the president and advocate the president’s point of view.

Which is that he was innocent, and that Obama’s government engaged in foul play to overthrow a duly elected president. Which is treason. Apparently Bill Barr did the dastardly thing and agreed with the president. How dare he.