Donald Trump repeats the attorney general's claim that the federal government spied on the president's 2016 campaign.
Attorney General William Barr exonerated President Donald Trump of all wrong-doing in the Russia investigation last month, and now he wants to take things a step further.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. Barr is appearing before the Senate committee one day after testifying to the House where he faced many questions about the Mueller report. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Still, the comments will most certainly please Barr’s boss, who has repeatedly called the Mueller investigation a Democrat-driven witch hunt. A person close to Barr told The New York Times on background that the attorney general didn’t see a distinction between the terms “spying” and “surveillance,” and that he did not mean to imply that spying is inherently wrong.
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