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Trump calls Barr ‘coward’ for not prosecuting Hunter Biden, investigating election fraud

by Tara Suter - 08/10/23 11:57 AM ET

In an interview on Newsmax Wednesday, former President Trump called his former Attorney General Bill Barr a “coward” for not prosecuting Hunter Biden or investigating alleged election fraud.

“You know, Bill Barr was a coward,” Trump said in the interview. “He was afraid to do things; he was afraid he was going to be impeached.”

In recent months, Barr has taken many chances to criticize his former boss publicly, especially after Trump’s indictments. After the former president’s indictment in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Mar-a-Lago documents case back in June, he called Trump’s defenses “absurd” and compared him to a 9-year-old child.

Trump hit back at Barr in a response on Truth Social. He called his former attorney general a “coward,” much like in the Newsmax interview, a “gutless pig” and a “RINO,” which stands for Republican in name only.

“So nice to see that Sloppy, Low Energy RINO Bill Barr, gets loudly booed and shouted at everywhere he goes! He is sooo bad for America,” Trump wrote in his response post.

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In the wake of Trump’s indictment in the DOJ’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Barr said he would be willing to testify as a witness in a trial for the case. He also said he found no evidence to support the former president’s claims of election fraud when investigating it.

“Well, I go through that in my book in painstaking detail, but on three occasions at least, I told him in no uncertain terms, that there was no evidence of fraud that would have changed the outcome,” Barr said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” earlier this week.