"Barr reveals new details of his resignation after delivering Trump bad
news about his 'clown show' lawyers"

"Former attorney general William Barr revealed new details about his resignation from the White House during an angry showdown with Donald
Trump."

"The former president was fuming that Barr had admitted to a reporter
that the Department of Justice had turned up no widespread evidence of
election fraud, and the former attorney general described their Dec. 1,
2020, confrontation in his forthcoming memoir, "One Damn Thing After
Another," of which the Wall Street Journal published excerpts.

“Mr. President,” Barr says he told Trump, “the reason you are in this position is that, instead of having a crackerjack legal team that had
its shit together from day one, you wheeled out a clown show, and no
quality lawyers who would otherwise be willing to help will get anywhere
near it.”

Trump, who had been watching One America News channel covering a
Michigan legislative hearing on voter fraud allegations, "pensively"
seemed to agree with Barr, but would not concede that his team's legal arguments were bogus.

“Look, Mr. President, they wasted a whole month with this idiotic claim
about Dominion machines,” Barr says he continued. “First, there is no evidence they were compromised. Your team picked the one theory that can
be easily disproven.”

Paper ballots were maintained by the Dominion voting machines, which
made it easy to verify their accuracy, and no discrepancies had been
found, but Trump remained unconvinced and continued spinning off more conspiracy theories about the election, and Barr wrote that he knocked
each one down in turn.

“Have you bothered to ask the people who are feeding you this sh*t how
the votes compared to the last election?” Barr says he asked the former president.

Trump then demanded to know when U.S. attorney John Durham’s
investigation into the origins of the Russian probe would be completed,
and he erupted when Barr said it would not likely be done until the
start of the Biden administration.

“'The first part of the Biden administration!' the president roared
harshly, staring daggers at me," Barr wrote. "I could not tell if he was
mad at the delay or at my explicit recognition that Joe Biden would be
the president."

Trump then changed the subject to his long-standing grievance against
Barr for refusing to indict former FBI director James Comey for giving
his lawyers memos that contained scraps of confidential information, and
an exasperated Barr finally offered to resign.

"Bang. A loud sound, almost like a gunshot, cut me off and jolted us
all," Barr wrote.

“'Accepted!' the President yelled. It took me a second to see that
President Trump had slammed the table with his palm," Barr wrote.
"'Accepted!' he yelled again. Bang. He hit the table once more; his face
was quivering. 'Leave, and don’t go back to your office. You are done
right now. Go home!' he barked.""
[snip]

https://www.rawstory.com/why-did-bill-barr-resign/

TB

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