Former President Donald Trump attacked his onetime ally Bill Barr on Friday after the former attorney general defended the Justice Department raid on Mar-a-Lago. “Bill Barr had no ‘guts’ and ‘no glory.’ He was a weak and pathetic RINO who was so afraid of censure that he became a captive of the Radical Left Democrats,” Trump wrote in a post on the social media site Truth Social, referring to Barr as a “Republican in name. Only.” “Barr never fought the way he should have for electoral integrity, and so much more. He started out OK as AG, but faded quickly – He had no guts or stamina. People like this will never make America great again!” Trump continued. In a second post, he also criticized Barr’s handling of the Russia investigation and the “Laptop from Hell,” possibly a reference to Hunter Biden’s laptop. Barr was largely considered a staunch ally of Trump while serving as his attorney general from February 2019 to December 2020. Their relationship changed when Barr came forward saying the Justice Department had found no evidence of widespread voter fraud that would affected the election results. in direct defiance of Trump’s insistence that the election had been stolen from him. He left the administration a month before the end of Trump’s term. In an interview with Fox News on Friday, Barr rejected arguments that the Justice Department’s decision to raid Mar-a-Lago was overreach. “I personally think that for things to have gotten to where they are today, they probably have pretty good evidence, but that’s speculation,” Barr said. He also rejected Trump’s defense that he had declassified all documents held at the club and his Florida residence. “Honestly, I’m skeptical of this claim that I ‘declassified everything,’ because, frankly, I think it’s very unlikely,” Barr said. “And, secondly, if he actually stood over a lot of boxes, not really knowing what was in them, and then said, ‘I’m declassifying everything in here’—that would be such abuse and such recklessness that it’s almost worse than get the documents”. In another interview with The New York Times, Barr also called Trump’s request to have a special master, or a court-appointed outsider, review the documents “nonsense.” During the Aug. 8 raid at Mar-a-Lago, the FBI seized highly classified documents, according to court records. The Department of Justice is investigating possible violations of laws related to the handling of government documents.
