Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Special Counsel John Durham “will get to the bottom” of the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, calling the original probe and “collusion” narrative a “manufactured scandal” that hobbled former President Trump’s administration.
, calling the original probe and"collusion" narrative a"manufactured scandal" that hobbled former President Trump’s administration.
Barr added:"I certainly hope that people, if they did commit crimes, and we can prove it, that they’re going to be held accountable.""And there is no doubt in my mind that is what they’re going to do if he feels he has the evidence," Barr said of Durham and his team. Mueller's investigation yielded no evidence of criminal conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials during the 2016 presidential election.
"I think if Trump lost and I did it, it would have been more vulnerable, but if I did it regardless of the outcome of the election, I thought that was a better way of doing it." The unverified anti-Trump dossier was authored by ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, commissioned by opposition research firm Fusion GPS, and funded by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign through law firm Perkins Coie.
The transcript revealed the confidential human source pressed Papadopoulos on whether the Trump campaign was involved in Russian election meddling — something, the transcript shows, Papadopoulos emphatically denied. Barr slammed the media for not covering the Durham investigation and for ignoring"the stunning information about how the source for the dossier was suspected of being a Russian asset."
"It was being taken seriously enough by the media and with the appointment of special counsel Mueller, that it really looked as if it could lead to Trump being driven from office, and theand the FBI were obviously caught up in it," Barr said."Many people were feeling that the criminal justice process was potentially being used as a political tool here."
Barr said the investigations"distorted our foreign policy and limited the field that we could play in on foreign policy in terms of interacting with Russia over the four years of the Trump administration because of this phony scandal.""It did the country a lot of damage, and yet they just ignore that and move on. I mean, it’s just the shamelessness of it," Barr said.
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