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William Barr
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William Pelham Barr (born May 23, 1950) is an American attorney who served as United States Attorney General in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1991 to 1993 and again in the first administration of President Donald Trump from 2019 to 2020.
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And I'm happy to say that, in fact the president has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case. However, to have public statements and tweets made about the department, about our people in the department, our men and women here, about cases pending in the department, and about judges before whom we have cases, make it impossible for me to do my job and to assure the courts and the prosecutors in the department that we're doing our work with integrity.
"Transcript of Attorney General Bill Barr's exclusive interview with ABC News". ABC News. February 14, 2020.
comments on his relationship with Trump during his first term
To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.
"Inside William Barr’s Breakup With Trump". The Atlantic. June 27, 2021.
declared that there had been no widespread fraud in the 2020 US election
The mass importation of Chinese fentanyl is slaughtering Americans at an annual rate equal to that of our bloodiest year in World War II.
"China Must Pay for Its Mass Murder by Fueling America’s Fentanyl Overdose Epidemic". New York Post. April 17, 2024.
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