Bill Barr, Donald Trump.Photo: Matt McClain-Pool/Getty Images; Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images
Former U.S. Attorney GeneralBill Barrsaid then-PresidentDonald Trumpbecame furious and pounded on a White House desk when told there wasno evidence of a stolen electionin 2020.
Barr, whose memoirOne Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney Generalis out Tuesday, recalled facing the former president with the Justice Department’s findings during aninterview with NBC News' Lester Holt, which will air Sunday.
When Trump summoned him to a meeting at the White House, “I told him that all this stuff was bulls—,” Barr, 71, said in the NBC interview. “And, you know, it was wrong to be shoveling it out the way his team was.”
The former attorney general said the president “was asking about different theories” to support the claim that he should remain in office, despiteJoe Biden’s electoral win.
“I had the answers,” Barr told Holt. “I was able to tell him, ‘This was wrong because of this.’ "
As Trump listened, “He was obviously getting very angry,” Barr said.
It was then that Barr told Trump he was willing to leave his position, which he held since February 2019.
“I understand you’re upset with me,” Barr recalled telling the president. “And I’m perfectly happy to tender my resignation.”
That was when Trump slapped his desk, Barr said.
“Accepted. Accepted,” Barr recalled Trump saying. “And then — boom. He slapped it again. ‘Accepted. Go home. Don’t go back to your office. Go home. You’re done.'”
Trump claimed he was the one who asked Barr to resign, which he did two weeks later, he said in a portion of his story thataired Friday onToday.
source: people.com
