Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that he doesn’t believe President Trump has overstepped the boundaries between the White House and the Justice Department in a number of big recent cases.
Barr told NPR in a wide-ranging interview that he believes Trump has “supervisory authority” to oversee the effective course of justice — but Barr said that ultimately, the choices were made and carried through independently by the Justice Department.
“It’s very important that the attorney general make sure that there’s no political influence at stake involved in that — and there wasn’t,” Barr said. Continue reading.