Attorney General Bill Barr threatened to quit last year over Trump's attempts to fire FBI Director

[brooklynite]

Business Insider

Last spring, when President Donald Trump was considering firing FBI Director Chris Wray, Attorney General Bill Barr threatened to resign in protest, a person briefed on the deliberations told Insider.

The person said Barr went to the White House for a meeting and was introduced to Bill Evanina, a top counterintelligence official in the Trump administration who had previously worked at the FBI. When Barr realized Evanina was being suggested as a replacement for Wray, he left the room.

When told of the plotting, Barr threatened to resign in protest, according to the person briefed on the deliberations.

It was the closest Wray, who has held onto his position under the Biden administration, ever came to getting fired during Trump's tenure, the person briefed on the matter said.

[underpants]

1. He served his client well in all other ways though

Including that horrific display on June 1 - the Bible photo op.

[Paladin]

2. Bill Barr, Man Of Principle.

My ass.....

[hatrack]

3. Uh-huh, here comes an after-the-fact display of Barr's "character", relayed third-hand . . .

Bullshit.

[Bev54]

5. Exactly, we all know who leaked this story.

Barr himself does this to try and look like the good guy, we have all caught on to his squirrel tricks.

[C_U_L8R]

4. But he didn't.

So now we have to suffer these thinly veiled pr efforts to rewrite his stinking reputation.