"I told him that all this stuff was BULLSHIT ! about election fraud. And, you know, it was wrong to be shoveling it out the way his team was,"
Barr told Holt he hadn't been aware of the scheme and was "livid" when he found out about what Trump had said. "This whole maneuver of trying to get the Ukrainians to investigate Biden — that was a harebrained scheme. It was ridiculous," Barr said.
Trump, he said, "never really had a good idea of, you know, the role of the Department of Justice [and] to some extent, you know, the president’s role."
Barr pointed to his publicly speaking out against Trump's election fraud claims as an instance of his standing up to the president. He said Trump was so enraged that he thought it would be his last day on the job.
Barr said Trump summoned him to a meeting in the White House on Dec. 1, 2020, after The Associated Press published an interview in which Barr said there was no evidence of any widespread voter fraud in the election, despite Trump's claims to the contrary.
"To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” Barr told the AP.
Barr said Trump called him in to a meeting that day in his private dining room and questioned him about his comments.
Barr said he told Trump the Justice Department had investigated and found no evidence to support the various conspiracy theories that Trump and his legal team were pushing.
"He was asking about different theories, and I had the answers. I was able to tell him, 'This was wrong because of this,'" Barr recounted.
Trump listened, but "he was obviously getting very angry about this."
Barr said he told Trump: "I understand you're upset with me. And I'm perfectly happy to tender my resignation."
Barr said Trump then slapped his desk and said: "Accepted. Accepted."
"And then — boom. He slapped it again. 'Accepted. Go home. Don't go back to your office. Go home. You're done,'" he said.
In a letter responding to Barr's interview, Trump said he was the one who asked Barr to resign that day and said his account was a fabrication. LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE.
Barr said Trump had White House lawyers stop him before he left the premises to tell him he wasn't fired, but Trump continued to take shots at him in public.
“He hasn’t done anything. He hasn’t looked” for voter fraud, Trump complained at an event at the White House on Dec. 3. "This is criminal stuff. This is very bad, criminal stuff.”
Haw Haw Haw
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