MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace declared Friday that Attorney General William Barr is the “most dangerous person” in the Trump administration.
Wallace expressed concern on her show that Barr was pushing “demagoguery” with his comments about the origins of the Russia investigation.
“I think Barr’s the most dangerous person that works for Donald Trump because he has Donald Trump’s worldview, Sean Hannity’s worldview, but he oversees the Justice Department,” Wallace said.{mosads}
Wallace, a vocal critic of Trump, served as White House communications director during the George W. Bush administration. She also served as a senior adviser to the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for his 2008 presidential run.
The MSNBC host’s comments Friday came after Barr appeared on Fox News earlier this week and discussed the “multiple” investigations into the origins of the Russia probe.
“His answer — so perplexing, so potentially dangerous to the institutions of law and justice that he oversees — we don’t want to air it without a disclaimer,” Wallace said.
“What you’re about to hear from the sitting attorney general … is not normal,” she continued.
Barr sat down with Fox News during his first international trip to El Salvador and said the U.S. “should be worried about whether government officials abused their power and put their thumb on the scale” during the course of the federal Russia investigation.
President Trump later appeared to seize on Barr’s comments, saying his 2016 campaign had been “conclusively spied on” by the Obama administration while calling the charge akin to “treason” and demanding jail time for those behind it
Wallace criticized Barr for publicly raising concerns about career law enforcement officials without citing any evidence.
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace shared a similar view about Barr’s interview, saying the attorney general “clearly is protecting” Trump and “advocating his point of view.”
“What really comes across to me [about the Barr interview] most of all is that for two years Donald Trump sat there and said ‘I don’t have an attorney general. I don’t have somebody out there looking for and protecting my interests,'” said Wallace. “He clearly has that now with Bill Barr.”
“Not saying that Barr isn’t right in everything he says. But he clearly is protecting this president and advocating his point of view on a lot of these issues,” the “Fox News Sunday” anchor continued. “And I suspect that as President Trump, who probably has watched some of this interview himself, is saying finally, ‘No Jeff Sessions, Bill Barr instead.'”