Former Attorney General Bill Barr continued to defend his former boss, former President Donald Trump from allegations that he gave out orders to kill his political rivals.
Barr appeared on CNN’s The Source on Friday to respond to former Trump staffer Alyssa Farrah Griffin’s claim that he was in the room when then-President Trump suggested an anonymous person who leaked information about his administration should be killed. This was in reference to the story of Trump going to a bunker when the 2020 protests over George Floyd broke out near the White House.
“I remember him being very mad about that, I actually don‘t remember him saying executing, but I wouldn‘t dispute it. The president would lose his temper, say things like that. I doubt he would have actually carried it out,” Barr said. “I think people sometimes took him too literally and he would say things like sim …