The former U.S. attorney general said Trump could win the election before he is potentially prosecuted.
Donald Trump’s former attorney has issued a warning about the possibility of the former president winning the 2024 presidential election, despite the ongoing Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into his alleged January 6 role.
Federal prosecutor Jack Smith was appointed in November 2022 by the DOJ to investigate the former president’s alleged role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol. On Friday the Supreme Court declined to issue an expedited ruling, made by Smith, on whether Trump has presidential immunity from prosecution. Appellate courts are hearing the case, but the Supreme Court ruled Friday that it would proceed as normal.
Barr, who served as attorney general under George H. W. Bush from 1991 to 1993 and again in the Trump administration from 2019 to 2020, said the former president “has a lot of tools” and that “he may be successful”.
