Trump’s former national security adviser, for lying to the F.B.I. Stone Jr.Īnd addressing his decision to drop the prosecution of Michael T. Barr writes that it was “reasonable” for him to overrule line prosecutors and seek a more lenient sentence for Mr. Barr defends his handling of two other cases arising from the Mueller investigation. In a chapter titled “Upholding Fairness, Even for Rascals,” Mr. Manafort not to cooperate with the inquiry. Trump dangled a pardon at his former campaign chairman, Paul J. Mueller’s report laid out as raising potential obstruction-of-justice concerns, such as the fact that Mr. Barr writes that it was a “simple fact that the president never did anything to interfere with the special counsel’s investigation.”īut his book does not address any of the specific incidents that Mr. Trump did not commit obstruction of justice - was “entirely accurate.”
Barr insists that his description - including his declaration that Mr. Barr rejects as “drivel” the criticism that his summary of the special counsel’s report that he issued before the report became public was distorted in a way that favored Mr. leadership handle the matter in such an inexplicable and heavy-handed way?” He writes that “the matter that really required investigation” was “how did the phony Russiagate scandal get going, and why did the F.B.I. Mueller III, into links between Russia and Trump campaign aides in 2016. Barr also denounces the inquiry by the F.B.I. He compares its support for social justice issues to “the same kind of revolutionary and totalitarian ideas that propelled the French Revolution, the Communists of the Russian Revolution and the fascists of 20th-century Europe.” Barr scorns the news media, accusing them of “corruption” and “active support for progressive ideology.” The political left, he writes, became radicalized during President Barack Obama’s second term. “He surrounded himself with sycophants, including many whack jobs from outside the government, who fed him a steady diet of comforting but unsupported conspiracy theories.” “He stopped listening to his advisers, became manic and unreasonable, and was off the rails,” Mr. Trump “lost his grip” after the election, he writes. Trump as a president who - despite sometimes displaying “the menacing mannerisms” of a strongman ruler as a “schtick” to project an image of strength - had operated within guardrails set up by his advisers and achieved many conservative policy goals. Trump denounced his former attorney general, calling him a “swamp creature” and a “RINO” - meaning Republican in Name Only - who “was afraid, weak and frankly, now that I see what he is saying, pathetic.”įor his part, Mr. Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election had been stolen. But the two fell out toward the end of the Trump administration, when Mr. Barr was long considered a close ally of Mr. Trump - defends his own actions in the Trump administration that led to sharp criticism of a Justice Department setting aside its independence to bend to White House pressure. Barr’s time as attorney general under President George H.W. “Donald Trump has shown he has neither the temperament nor persuasive powers to provide the kind of positive leadership that is needed,” Mr. Barr also urges his fellow Republicans to pick someone else as the party’s nominee for the 2024 election, calling the prospect of another presidential run by Mr. In the book, “ One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General ,” Mr. Trump’s “self-indulgence and lack of self-control” cost him the 2020 election and says “the absurd lengths to which he took his ‘stolen election’ claim led to the rioting on Capitol Hill.” Barr writes in a new memoir that former President Donald J. WASHINGTON - Former Attorney General William P.
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