Former Attorney General William Barr has embarked on a press tour to promote his new book: One Damn Thing After Another, a memoir about his time in the Cabinet of former President Donald Trump.
On Sunday, Barr interviewed with Lester Holt at NBC Nightly News… and Trump wasn’t happy with the interview.
The former president responded with a letter to Holt.
“I imagine that if the book is anything like him, it will be long, slow and very boring,” Trump wrote in the letter, obtained by Axios. “Now he is groveling to the media, hoping to gain acceptance that he doesn’t deserve.”
Trump continued:
Barr’s lack of energy, drive and curiosity led me to say things to him that should never have ever been necessary – but he was so lazy and cowardly, he just never quite understood what was going on.
In other words, Bill Barr was a coward!
Barr preempted some of these criticisms during his earlier interview.
“I tried to take every issue that came to me and decide it, what I thought was the right thing — and I didn’t really care what people thought about me,” Barr said. “I went in with my eyes open. I didn’t go in to be best buddies with President Trump.”
Barr joined the Trump administration in 2018. At the time, Barr was working in the private sector, and he sent the Justice Department a memo to voice his skepticism of the Russiagate theory. He worried that bad actors were using the investigation as a political weapon and argued that the Justice Department had yet to uncover sufficient evidence for collusion.
He said he remains open to voting for Trump in 2024. On Monday, told NBC’s Today that he would most likely vote for the Republican nominee over any Democrat.
Barr discussed Russiagate for most of his interview with Holt, but he also touched on the former president’s controversial claims about the last presidential election being stolen.
“We hadn’t seen any evidence of broad fraud that would have affected the outcome of the election,” Barr said. “And I told him that all this stuff was bulls–t.”
Barr continued:
He started asking me about different theories, and I had the answers. I was able to tell him, “This is wrong because of this.” …
He listened. He was obviously getting very angry about this. I said, ‘OK, Look. I understand you’re upset with me, and I’m perfectly happy to tender my resignation.” And then boom! He slapped the desk and he said, “Accepted!”
“You’re controversial,” Holt said to Barr.
“Yeah,” Barr replied. “That’s OK.”
Barr’s memoir hit shelves on Tuesday. Watch his interview with here —
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