“I think he wants responsible watchdogs,” Barr told Fox News.
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Trump speak at the daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on March 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. With the number of deaths caused by the coronavirus rising and foreseeable economic turmoil, the U.S. Congress continues to work on legislation for the nearly $2 trillion dollar aid package to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
“He had interpreted his statute, which was a fairly narrow statute which gave him jurisdiction over wrongdoing over by intelligence people, and tried to turn it into a commission to explore anything in the government and immediately report it to Congress without letting the executive branch look at it and determine whether there was any problem,” Barr said of Atkinson’s performance.
“Even more concerning, actually, is what happened after the campaign, a whole pattern of events while he was president...To sabotage the presidency, and I think that — or at least have the effect of sabotaging the presidency,” he added.points out, however, the Justice Department in December found no evidence that the probe had been politically motivated and concluded that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had been justified in opening an investigation.
In the interview, Burr also criticized mail-in voting and praised Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis as “statesmanlike.”Trump has fired a number of officials in the wake of his impeachment hearings, including
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