'I think people sometimes took him too literally,' the former U.S. attorney general said about Trump.
Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr's Friday comments related to Donald Trump's reported threats to execute a White House leaker has sparked alarm and concern on social media.In an interview with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins on Friday night, Barr was asked if he recalled when the former president said the person should be executed who leaked information about him going to a bunker during the protests over George Floyd's death outside the White House in 2020.
the former president wrote.On Friday, Collins prefaced her question to Barr about Trump's alleged execution comment by noting a post on X by former Trump aide, Alyssa Farah Griffin, who posted Thursday, 'I was in the Oval Office with Trump when he said a WH staffer he believed leaked an embarrassing story about him should be executed.'Griffin's post was in response to the former president's attorney, D. John Sauer, arguing to the U.S.
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