Donald Trump on Friday lashed out at his one-time ally and former Attorney General Bill Barr for defending the Justice Department’s raid on Mar-a-Lago by saying that investigators had “pretty good evidence” before executing the search at Trump’s residence.
“Bill Barr had ‘no guts,’ and got ‘no glory.’ He was a weak and pathetic RINO, who was so afraid of being Impeached that he became a captive to the Radical Left Democrats,” Trump wrote in an angry post on his social media site, Truth Social.
“Barr never fought the way he should have for Election Integrity, and so much else. He started off OK as A.G., but faded fast – Didn’t have courage or stamina. People like that will never Make America Great Again!” Trump added.
In a second post, he slammed Barr’s handling of the Russia probe and the “Laptop from Hell,” presumably a reference to Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Trump’s tirade came after Barr appeared on Fox News and dismissed the former president’s arguments that the Justice Department’s decision to raid Mar-a-Lago was politically motivated.
“I personally think, for them to have taken things to the current point, they probably have pretty good evidence,” Barr said.
He also dismissed Trump’s defense that he had declassified all the documents that were being held at his Florida club and residence.
“I, frankly, am skeptical of this claim that, ‘I declassified everything,’ because, frankly, I think it is highly improbable,” Barr said. “And, second, if in fact he sort of stood over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them, and then said, ‘I hereby declassify everything in here’ — that would be such an abuse and such recklessness that it’s almost worse than taking the documents.”
WATCH: Bill Barr, Trump’s AG, completely destroying Trump’s position on the stolen Mar-a-Lago documents.
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In a prior interview with The New York Times, Barr also called Trump’s request to have a special master, or a court-appointed outsider, to review the documents a “crock of shit.”
Barr was considered a solid Trump ally during his tenure as attorney general from February 2019 to December 2020. But their relationship changed when Barr refused to comply with Trump’s orders to declare the 2020 election “corrupt” and instead announced that the Justice Department had found no evidence of widespread voter fraud that would have impacted the election results. He resigned from the administration one month before the end of Trump’s term.
