AG Barr warned Trump about his legal team

Never one to ordinarily mix bovine excrement language with his legal opinions, Attorney General William Barr reportedly broke that rule and warned President Trump that his legal team was telling him a fib about the election being stolen by calling "bulls**t" on it.

[H/T Daily Wire]

The AG made that statement at a Dec 1st meeting with Trump and other top aides, according to Axios, a left-leaning outlet which has consistently been highly critical of the administration.

The reason for the meeting was allegedly due to Trump being angry that Barr gave an interview to the Associated Press that contradicted what Trump's legal team was saying publicly.

In that interview with the AP, Barr said that federal investigators were looking into allegations of voter fraud but said that they had “not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”

In truth, probably all elections ever run in the USA and everywhere else, has some voter fraud associated with it, but if it doesn't swing the election, then the will of the people has spoken. 

 Axios reports about the confrontation with Trump:

“These things aren’t panning out,” Barr told Trump, as he stood beside his chief of staff Will Levi. “The stuff that these people are filling your ear with just isn’t true.” Barr explained that if Trump wanted to contest the election results, the president’s internal campaign lawyers would have to do it, not the DOJ.

The Justice Department, he continued, had looked at the major fraud allegations that Trump’s lawyers had leveled. “It’s just bullshit,” Barr told the president. [White House counsel Pat] Cipollone backed up Barr by saying the DOJ was investigating these claims.

The report also said that Cipollone along with others within earshot were stunned over Barr's blunt and brutal manner, although they agreed. In addition, Barr is reported to have called Trump's legal team "clownish."

“I’m a pretty informed legal observer and I can’t f***ing figure out what the theory is here,” Barr reportedly said in reference to the claims that Trump’s legal team were making. “It’s just scattershot. It’s all over the hill and gone.”

“Maybe,” Trump said, according to Axios. “Maybe.”

Axios explained how it sourced its report:

Our reporting is based on multiple interviews with current and former White House, campaign, government and congressional officials as well as direct eyewitnesses and people close to the president. Sources have been granted anonymity to share sensitive observations or details they would not be formally authorized to disclose. President Trump and other officials to whom quotes and actions have been attributed by others were provided the opportunity to confirm, deny or respond to reporting elements prior to publication.

Barr had been a nostalgic favorite amongst Trump supporters but has since resigned 3 weeks prior to the end of Trump's term and strongly criticized him over the Capitol riot that took place Jan. 6.

Trump will not attend Joe Biden's inauguration on Jan. 20. He will be the fourth President to snub his replacement. The others were John Adams, the second U.S. President; John Quincy Adams, the sixth President and son of John Adams; and Andrew Johnson, the 17th President and the first to be impeached.

Like Trump, all the others were one-term presidents.

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