Former AG Barr said Trump became enraged after being told election fraud claims were nonsense
"I told him that all this stuff was bulls---," Barr told NBC News's Lester Holt in his first TV interview since resigning as attorney general.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/former-ag-barr-said-trump-became-enraged-told-election-fraud-claims-no-rcna17750
William Barr uses new book to outline case against Trump White House run
Former attorney general also describes tempestuous Oval Office meeting in which he rejected electoral fraud claims
In a new memoir, the former US attorney general William Barr says Donald Trump must not be the Republican candidate for president in 2024.
The man he served between 2019 and 2020, Barr writes, has “shown he has neither the temperament nor persuasive powers to provide the kind of positive leadership that is needed”.
Trump, Barr says, has surrounded himself with “sycophants” and “whack jobs from outside the government, who fed him a steady diet of comforting but unsupported conspiracy theories”.
Trump hinted again on Saturday that he intends to run in 2024. He did not immediately comment on Barr’s analysis.
Barr’s book, One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General, will be published on 8 March, its title taken from a description of the job by Ed Levi, appointed by Gerald Ford after the Watergate scandal.
The Wall Street Journal, like publisher Harper Collins owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, first reported Barr’s book on Sunday. The New York Times and Washington Post followed suit.
A strong conservative, Barr was seen by most as a loyal servant to Trump, the second president he worked for after George HW Bush. The Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren was among those who thought Barr way too loyal, calling him “a disgrace” and “not a credible head of federal law enforcement”.
In his book, Barr rejects such accusations, prominently over the investigation of Russian election interference and links between Trump and Moscow.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/feb/28/william-barr-book-trump-electoral-fraud-lie-michael-flynn-russia