Barr also asserted that those wanting to send their political rivals “to jail” are “poisoning the system.” Trump’s attorney general was referring to the president’s critics, but one thing he didn’t criticize was the “lock her up” chants aimed at Trump’s 2016 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by his supporters.
The attorney general disagreed with the findings of DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz: in a report released on Monday, Horowitz found that the FBI acted ethically and responsibly in its 2016 investigation. But Barr disagrees. And earlier in the day in a separate interview, Barr told NBC News, “I think our nation was turned on its head for three years based on a completely bogus narrative that was largely fanned and hyped by a completely irresponsible press.”