.MaddowBlog: AG Barr differs with Pres. Trump line on controversial presidential request.
The Washington Post published a provocative scoop last week, reporting that Donald Trump wanted Attorney General Bill Barr to hold a news conference, telling the public that the president’s Ukrainian extortion scheme did not break any laws. Barr, the article said, “declined to do so.”
A few days later, Trump told reporters, “Listen. I never asked him for a press conference. It’s fake news by the Washington Post, which is a fake newspaper. It’s fake. It’s made up. And if I ask Bill Barr to have a press conference, I think he’d do it. But I never asked him to have a press conference.”
At an event in Memphis about a Justice Department crackdown on gun violence, a reporter inquired, “Mr. Attorney General, did the president ask you to publicly defend him regarding the Ukrainian call, and if so, why did you not want to do that?”
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