President Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Bill Barr, told lawmakers during his confirmation hearings on Tuesday that he was “shocked” after reading anti-Trump text messages between former FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and that he had never heard of the FBI launching a counterintelligence investigation on a President based on a political decision, as was reported last Friday by the New York Times.
Graham reads some of the Peter Strzok/Lisa Page texts criticizing Trump and about stopping him from being elected, and asks what Barr’s reaction was to them. Barr says he was “shocked.” Graham asks if he’ll look into what happened in 2016, and Barr says yes
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) January 15, 2019
When asked about the Special Counsel investigation headed up by his “best friend” Robert Mueller, Barr said “I don’t believe Mr. Mueller would be involved in a witch hunt,” and that “On my watch, Bob will be allowed to finish his work.”
Barr: “I don’t believe Mr. Mueller would be involved in a witch hunt.”
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 15, 2019
Last week Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC) met with Barr, and said that the AG nominee has a “high opinion” of Mueller, and that Barr told him that he and Mueller worked together when Barr was Bush’s attorney general between 1991 and 1993 when Mueller oversaw the DOJ’s criminal division. Graham added that the two men were “best friends” who have known each other for 20 years, and that their wives have attended Bible study together.
Mueller also attended the weddings of two of Barr’s daughters.
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