Bill Barr brushed off his critics in his first public remarks since his investigation into the Russia probe was revealed to be little more than a political hit job.
’s probe in broad terms, while conveniently sidestepping one of the biggest criticisms he’s faced: that he misled the public about key elements of the probe. “I felt it was my duty to find out what happened there,” Barr told the paper. “So what’s wrong with that? You review something, you get the facts.”Barr’s remarks casting the inquiry as a straightforward fact-finding mission stand in stark contrast to the wild, but vague accusations he spouted when he first opened the inquiry.
—“one of the greatest travesties in American history,” he called it. “We’re not dealing with just mistakes or sloppiness,” BarrFox News in 2020. “There is something far more troubling here, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it.” Trump’s attorney general offered no evidence to support his claims, but that was beside the point: Simply by implying something sinister was at play when federal authorities examined the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, he lent an air of legitimacy to his boss’s baseless, self-serving conspiracy theories that he was the victim of a “deep state” persecution.
Durham's four-year investigation—which has costed taxpayers over six million dollars—appears to have turned up no actual proof to support Barr’s “sabotage” claims. Even worse, as thelast week, the Barr-Durham probe appears to have been far more of a “witch hunt” than the inquiry it was scrutinizing. While Barr pushed his investigator to find flaws in the Mueller probe, Durham used his position to investigate.
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