On Friday night, Mr Barr took to the one-term president’s favorite network to defend the FBI raid on Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. He stressed that his former boss’s attempt to explain classified material to his private residence was “unprecedented” and that he could not “think of a legitimate reason” why these documents would exist in the first place. “I think the driver of this from the beginning was a lot of classified information that was sitting at Mar-A-Lago,” Mr. Barr told the right-wing news network. “People are saying this was unprecedented, well, it’s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put it in a country club, okay?” Shortly after the interview aired, Trump took to his own social media platform — Truth Social — to begin trashing Barr’s character. “Former AG Bill Barr was fired long before I left the White House on January 20th. “He acted too late on the Mueller ‘No Collusion’ report because the FBI and Justice had the ‘Laptop from Hell,’ which completely exonerated me long before Mueller’s decision came out,” the former president said. first post on Friday night, before turning to a point he would pick up in later posts that Mr Barr was allegedly “stoned by the crazy Democrats and impeached!” He wrote. Donald Trump calls out former Attorney General Bill Barr for not moving fast enough on the Mueller report, a report that looked into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election (Truth Social/Donald Trump) Before arriving in the Trump White House, Barr previously served in several leadership roles at the Justice Department, including under President George H. W. Bush. Although that resume was highly praised during his 2018 nomination to the role of attorney general by the then-president, Mr. Trump, like many of his allies, has done a 180. While Mr Trump previously described Barr as “one of the most respected jurists in the country” and called him “an amazing man, a wonderful man, a brilliant man”, this week he continued his rant against Barr on Truth Social saying: 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. “Barr never fought the way he should have for electoral integrity, and so much more,” he said. The former president appeared to be referring to one of the pair’s more famous spats, where Mr Barr disputed his boss’s claim that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election and said there was no evidence to support the Big Lie. Donald Trump is calling former Attorney General Bill Barr “gutless” and “no glory” after his former ally went on Fox News to reject the former president’s defense that he had classified documents at his Florida estate. (Truth Social/Donald Trump) Before hanging up, the former president admitted that Mr Barr had “started OK as AG”, but activated this light gesture of goodwill by declaring that he was “fading fast” and “Had no courage or stamina”. “People like this will never make America great again!” he closed in on his infamous rallying cry. Mr. Barr’s comments to Fox News came hours after a Florida court released a full list of what was found at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate during an FBI search last month. The trove of materials uncovered at the former president’s winter estate included more than 100 classified documents, more than 10,000 documents under US government property law and mysteriously 90 empty folders that once contained highly sensitive documents. These documents were also interspersed with what the indexed list described only as photographs, press clippings and journals. Mr. Trump has both maintained at times that the boxes containing classified items had been placed by FBI officials and, perhaps inadvertently, at other times admitted that he had moved some of the items there himself. His argument for declassifying these materials was seen as ineffective, particularly by former allies such as Mr Barr, who said the reasoning was “reckless”. “If he actually stood over a lot of boxes, not really knowing what was inside, and said ‘I hereby declassify everything in here,’ that would be such abuse, and — it shows such recklessness that it’s almost worse than taking the documents.” , Mr. Barr said Friday night. Barr was nominated for attorney general by the former president in 2018, but stepped down shortly after Trump lost the 2020 election to Biden and began playing the Big Lie to his supporters.
