Bill Barr won't back a 2024 Trump run, but doesn't quite condemn his former boss
Former Attorney General William Barr spoke with NPR about his new memoir, former President Trump's election lies, and why he thinks Trump shouldn't try to return to the White House.
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William Barr says many people have the wrong idea about his time as attorney general in the Trump administration.
"The media chose to weave a narrative that I was a toady to the president, and that was false from the beginning, because I felt I could be independent, and I was," he told Morning Edition in an interview that aired on Monday.
Barr gives his version of events in a new memoir called, a reference to how one of his predecessors described running the Justice Department. In an NPR interview, Barr maintains that he bluntly refuted the president's notions about a stolen election. He also defends his interventions in investigations of Trump
