{"id":1990197,"date":"2023-08-03T19:12:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T23:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-barr-on-trump-j6-indictment-were-only-seeing-the-tip-of-the-iceberg\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T19:13:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T23:13:55","slug":"bill-barr-on-trump-j6-indictment-were-only-seeing-the-tip-of-the-iceberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-barr-on-trump-j6-indictment-were-only-seeing-the-tip-of-the-iceberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Barr: Trump J6 indictment reveals just the beginning."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fbill-barr-on-trump-j6-indictment-were-only-seeing-the-tip-of-the-iceberg%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=1990197&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--><h2>Former Trump Attorney General Weighs in on Federal Grand Jury Charges Against \u200cTrump<\/h2>\n<p>Former Trump Attorney General William Barr recently shared his thoughts on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-barr-on-trump-j6-indictment-were-only-seeing-the-tip-of-the-iceberg\/\" title=\"Barr: Trump J6 indictment reveals just the beginning.\">federal grand jury charges brought<\/a> against \u200cformer President Donald Trump. These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-orders-detention-for-alleged-proud-boy-whose-lawyer-blames-trump-for-capitol-incident\/\" title=\"Judge Orders Detention for Alleged Proud Boy Whose Lawyer Blames Trump for Capitol Incident\">charges stem<\/a> from allegations that \u200cTrump attempted to\u200c overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The 77-year-old former president now faces multiple felonies, including conspiracy to defraud\u200d the United States, conspiracy to\u200c obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding,\u2064 and conspiracy against \u200crights.<\/p>\n<h3>Insights from Barr<\/h3>\n<p>In\u2064 a recent interview on CNN, Barr discussed the complexities and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-ocasio-cortez-hit-with-second-ethics-complaint-over-tax-the-rich-met-gala-appearance\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Ocasio-Cortez Hit With Second Ethics Complaint Over \u2018Tax The Rich\u2019 Met Gala Appearance\">potential issues surrounding<\/a> the case against Trump. While acknowledging that it\u2062 is\u2063 a &#8220;legitimate case,&#8221; he also expressed concerns about the slippery slope of criminalizing legitimate political activity.<\/p>\n<p>Barr also pointed out that the Department of Justice may face challenges in convincing the public of the case&#8217;s fairness, especially considering the perceived mishandling\u2063 of\u2063 the\u2064 Hunter Biden investigation \u200dby prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the argument that Trump was exercising his First Amendment right, Barr disagreed, \u200cstating that the indictment does \u2063not attack Trump&#8217;s\u200b freedom of speech. He emphasized that entering into a conspiracy\u2062 is not protected by the First\u200d Amendment, as all conspiracies\u2062 involve speech and all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-barr-dismisses-trump-first-amendment-defense-against-jan-6-indictment\/\" title=\"Bill Barr rejects Trump's First Amendment defense for Jan. 6 indictment.\">fraud involves speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Trump&#8217;s\u2063 reliance on attorneys like John\u2064 Eastman, Barr expressed\u200c doubts about the effectiveness of the defense of\u2063 advice of counsel. He suggested that\u2063 if Trump were to take the \u2062stand, \u200dhe would likely do serious damage to himself due to inconsistencies in his past statements.<\/p>\n<p>Cautioning against premature judgments, Barr urged people \u200cto wait for more information, as the indictment\u2064 only \u2064reveals the tip of\u2064 the \u200diceberg. He also believed that special counsel Jack Smith \u200clikely possesses additional evidence that has not yet been presented.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, Barr shared his personal opinion that Trump \u200cknew he had lost the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-detailed-inventory-on-election-fraud-in-the-2020-election-by-deroy-murdock-provides-strong-evidence-on-president-trumps-performance-in-all-the-swing-states-and-overall-race\/\" title=\"New Detailed Inventory on Election Fraud in the 2020 Election by Deroy Murdock Provides Strong Evidence on President Trump\u2019s Performance in All the Swing States and Overall Race\">2020 presidential election based<\/a> \u2062on \u2064public comments from his top outside political advisers at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Attorney General William Barr commented on a federal grand jury indicting ex-President Donald Trump for multiple felonies. The charges relate to his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. Trump, aged 77, was accused of conspiracy to defraud and obstruct the United States. The indictment was filed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1990198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1990198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}