Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election became a “clown show,” his former Attorney General said.
William Barr, the former U.S. Attorney General, reportedly pulled no punches as he tore into Donald Trump ‘s claims of widespread election fraud, insisting: “It was all bull****.” According to a new book, the Trump-appointed AG said he also told the then-president that attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential vote resembled a “clown show,” adding: “No self-respecting lawyer is going anywhere near it. It’s just a joke.” The remarks were detailed in a series of interviews with ABC ‘s Jon Karl for the reporter’s upcoming book Betrayal— the latest in a string of publications on the politics of Tump’s White House. Speaking last spring, Barr—a one time loyal supporter of Trump—told Karl that the claims mooted by the president and his allies were baseless, and that Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell had been urging him to speak out against the allegations. McConnell, according to Barr, wanted Trump’s help in two runoff election campaigns in Georgia in January (both later lost by the GOP, giving Democrats control of the Senate). “Look, we need the president in Georgia,” McConnell reportedly told Barr, “and so we cannot be frontally attacking him right now.
