William Barr Says Trump Told Him He Wanted the Clinton Email Investigation to Be Dropped After 2016

• William Barr says Trump informed him that he didn’t need to see Hillary Clinton go to jail.
• Trump, Barr writes in his e-book, seen such an final result as worthy of a “banana republic.”
• But publicly, Trump continued to counsel that Clinton supported the notorious “Lock her Up!” chants.

Former Attorney General William Barr says President Donald Trump privately informed him throughout a gathering at the White House that the federal authorities ought to drop its deal with Hillary Clinton’s non-public emails. But publicly, Trump repeatedly pushed for such an investigation.

“He mentioned that, regardless of the chants of ‘Lock her up!’ from a few of his supporters, he had felt after the 2016 election that the e-mail matter must be dropped,” Barr writes in his new e-book, “One Damn Thing After Another.” “Even if she have been responsible, he mentioned, for the election winner to search prosecution of the loser would make the nation seem like a ‘banana republic.'”

Barr says the second got here throughout a November 2018 assembly with Trump in the White House residence earlier than Barr agreed to change the ousted Jeff Sessions as the administration’s subsequent everlasting Attorney General.

Trump’s reported non-public remark is contradicted by years of proof displaying that the president very a lot didn’t need to drop the deal with Clinton’s non-public electronic mail server and was not above publicly pressuring the Justice Department to accomplish that.

“You’ve bought to converse to Jeff Sessions about that,” Trump said during a September 2017 rally when his supporters started chanting “Lock her up!” A number of months later he informed conservative radio host Larry O’Connor that he was “pissed off” that presidents weren’t supposed to intervene in the DOJ and FBI’s operations, however added, “Hopefully they’re doing one thing.”

Trump’s feedback about Clinton didn’t cease as soon as Barr turned lawyer basic. Trump pressured Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to release more of Clinton’s emails in the weeks earlier than the 2020 election. Privately, Trump was going even additional in pressuring Barr to ship politically-motivated probes of high Democrats.

“The the president has additionally conveyed to Mr. Barr, immediately and thru surrogates, that he wished ‘scalps,'” the Times reported in October 2020.

And almost 4 years after beating Clinton, Trump made it clear that he beloved how his supporters wished to ship her to jail.

“Yeah. I agree with you,” Trump said in October 2020 when “Lock her Up!” chants began at an occasion in Florida. “I used to simply be quiet on that. I agree with you 100%.”