Ex-AG William Barr Says Trump Is Broadly ‘Responsible’ For January 6 Attack

William Barr, the former U.S. Attorney General, told NBC News that he thinks his former boss tried to kill him.

In an interview with NBC, Barr said that he believed that Trump was responsible for the January 6 attack on the Capitol building.

It appears that part of Trump's plan to block the electoral vote count was to send this group to the Hill.

Roseanne Barr told NBC he hasn't seen anything to say that Trump was responsible for inciting people.

Barr said he told the ex-president that the election fraud stuff was wrong.

The ex-AG told Trump's legal team that they were a bunch of clowns before he resigned.

NBC said that Trump responded to Barr's claims with a three-page letter decrying him as a "coward."

A number of lawsuits brought by congressional Democrats and Capitol police officers seek to hold the ex-president legally liable for the January 6 riot. A district court judge has already ruled that three of the lawsuits can move forward against Trump, finding that his actions were part of a conspiracy. The House January 6 committee told a judge that they have a good-faith basis in believing that Trump and his associates are guilty of criminal activity. Legal experts are skeptical that the DOJ will take up an investigation.

Barr served as Trump's attorney general from February to December 2020, drawing widespread criticism for appearing to do the president's bidding before leaving office. The former AG told the Associated Press that he had not seen fraud on a scale that could have changed the outcome of the election. Holt said Barr told him he believed the theme was already baked in, when he was asked if he regretted not speaking out before January 6.

The New York Times reported that Barr Rebukes Trump in a memoir.

Bill Barr suspected Trump of election fraud from the beginning.

Barr says there is no evidence of voter fraud that could change the election result.

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