https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/barr-trump-atlantic-interview-140833210.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"” Former Attorney General William Barr bluntly dismissed some of former President Donald Trump’s election fraud allegations as “bulls***””<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
“\u201cMy attitude was: It was put-up or shut-up time,\u201d Barr recalled at one point. \u201cIf there was evidence of fraud, I had no motive to suppress it. But my suspicion all the way along was that there was nothing there. It was all bulls***.\u201d
\nThe comment was part of multiple interviews Barr did this spring with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, who wrote the Atlantic article describing Barr\u2019s break with Trump in the aftermath of the 2020 election.”<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
“In the Atlantic, Barr said then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had been encouraging him to speak out about the election. \u201cBill, I look around, and you are the only person who can do it,\u201d McConnell reportedly told Barr.<\/p>\n
Trump was apparently livid with Barr for his comments to the AP.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow the f*** could you do this to me? Why did you say it?\u201d Trump told Barr in a White House meeting, according to the Atlantic.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause it\u2019s true,\u201d Barr responded.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou must hate Trump. You must hate Trump,\u201d Trump continued.<\/p>\n
In the tense White House meeting, Trump reportedly confronted Barr with a litany of complaints, ranging from falsehoods about the election results to how the Justice Department conducted itself during the campaign.<\/p>\n
About two weeks later, Trump tweeted out Barr\u2019s resignation letter, of which a substantial portion was dedicated to praising the president.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr at the White House. Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job!\u201d Trump tweeted. \u201cAs per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family.\u201d”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221],"class_list":["post-5734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5735,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions\/5735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}