{"id":1635063,"date":"2022-09-07T08:48:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T12:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1635063"},"modified":"2022-09-07T08:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T12:49:36","slug":"former-attorney-general-bill-barr-claps-back-after-trump-calls-him-a-rino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-attorney-general-bill-barr-claps-back-after-trump-calls-him-a-rino\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Attorney General Bill Barr Claps Back After Trump Calls Him A \u2018RINO\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-attorney-general-bill-barr-claps-back-after-trump-calls-him-a-rino%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1635063&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr \u2014 who served in the role twice, once under former President George H.W. Bush and later under former President Donald Trump \u2014 responded to Trump calling him a \u201cRINO\u201d by saying that he has been a hardcore Republican for years.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s criticism of Barr came after Barr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trumps-former-attorney-general-bill-barr-makes-surprising-remarks-about-the-former-president\">commented<\/a> Friday afternoon on the latest updates surrounding the criminal investigation into the former president\u2019s handling of classified information at his Florida home at Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBill Barr had \u2018no guts,\u2019 and got \u2018no glory,\u2019\u201d Trump wrote on social media. \u201cHe was a weak and pathetic RINO, who was so afraid of being Impeached that he became a captive to the Radical Left Democrats \u2026 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 \u2013 Didn\u2019t have courage or stamina.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum asked Barr on Tuesday afternoon what he thought about Trump calling him a \u201cRINO,\u201d to which Barr responded, \u201cI mean I heard that \u2014 I\u2019ve heard that a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, you know, I \u2014 you have to remember \u2014 a RINO for him is anyone who disagrees with him that the election was stolen, right? That\u2019s a RINO,\u201d Barr continued. \u201cNow, you know, as someone who handed out Barry Goldwater literature when I was 14 years old on the Upper West Side, it\u2019s a little silly for \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t think your Republican credentials are in question?\u201d MacCallum laughingly asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight,\u201d Barr laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s remarks about the former attorney general on Friday came after Barr dismissed the push from Trump\u2019s legal team to appoint a \u201cspecial master\u201d to review the items that were seized during the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. Barr called it \u201ca bit of a red herring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only documents that have been taken, it seems to me, that there\u2019s a legitimate concern about keeping away from the government and insulating the government from would be documents relating to his private lawyer communications, him as an individual and his outside lawyers,\u201d Barr said. \u201cIf there\u2019s stuff like that, fine, identify it. There doesn\u2019t appear to be much of it. I\u2019m not sure you need a special master to identify it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what people are missing is that all the other documents taken, even if they claim to be executive privilege, either belong to the government because they\u2019re government records \u2014 even if they\u2019re classified, even if they\u2019re subject to executive privilege, they still belong to the government and go to the Archives,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd any other documents that were seized, like news clippings and other things that were in the boxes containing the classified information, those were seizable under the warrant because they show the conditions under which the classified information was being held. So, I think it\u2019s a red herring \u2026 at this stage, since they have already gone through the documents, I think it\u2019s a waste of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News host John Roberts asked Barr if there was \u201cany legitimate reason\u201d for Trump to be in possession of the documents that were recovered during the raid, including \u201ctop secret\/SCI materials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. I can\u2019t think of a legitimate reason why they should have been \u2014 could be taken out of the government, away from the government, if they\u2019re classified,\u201d Barr said. \u201cI, frankly, am skeptical of this claim that \u2018I declassified everything,\u2019 because, frankly, I think it\u2019s highly improbable. And, second, if, in fact, he sort of stood over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them, and said, \u2018I hereby declassify everything in here,\u2019 that would be such an abuse, and that \u2014 and show such recklessness, that it\u2019s almost worse than taking the documents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr \u2014 who served in the role twice, once under former President George H.W. Bush and later under former President Donald Trump \u2014 responded to Trump calling him a \u201cRINO\u201d by saying that he has been a hardcore Republican for years. 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