Trump says he advised Bill Barr to get impeached in support of his bogus election claims because it would boost Barr's ratings

It was Donald Trump who urged Bill Barr to get impeached in pursuit of election fraud conspiracy theories.

In an interview on Fox News host Sean Hannity's show Wednesday, Trump addressed Barr's refusal to pursue bogus claims whipped up by the former president and his allies that he had been deprived of victory in the 2020 presidential election as a result of a vast plot by Democrats.

The former president said that his former attorney general had not pursued the claims because he was afraid of getting impeached, whereas Barr has said multiple times he didn't pursue them because they weren't true.

We had a chance, but Bill Barr, the attorney general, didn't want to be impeached.

Trump went on to criticize a book Barr recently published, in which he said Trump went off the rails after the 2020 election in pursuit of the false election fraud claims.

Get impeached, I said. When I was impeached, I went up in the polls. He was so afraid of being impeached that he refused to do his job, according to Trump.

When Trump tried to get Barr to help him in his bid to overturn the election, he already had been impeached for trying to get Ukraine to help him. According to a Gallup poll, Trump's approval ratings increased from 34% to 42% among independents.

He left office with the lowest poll ratings on record, after attempts to overturn the election led supporters to attack the Capitol.

On December 1 2020 Barr told the Associated Press that the Justice Department had found no evidence of widespread election fraud.

He resigned from his position.