MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace declared Friday that Attorney General William Barr is the “most dangerous person” in the Trump administration.
Wallace expressed concern on her show that Barr was pushing “demagoguery” with his comments about the origins of the Russian investigation.
“I think Barr’s the most dangerous person that works for Donald Trump, because he has Donald Trump’s worldview, Sean Hannity’s worldview, but he oversees the Justice Department,” Wallace said.
The MSNBC host’s comments come after Barr appeared on Fox News earlier this week and discussed the “multiple” investigations into the origins of the Russia probe.
“His answer — so perplexing, so potentially dangerous to the institutions of law and justice that he oversees — we don’t want to air it without a disclaimer,” Wallace said on-air.
“What you’re about to hear from the sitting attorney general about an investigation into whether foreign adversary are interfering in our democracy is not normal,” she continued.
Barr sat down with Fox News during his first international trip to El Salvador and said the U.S. should be worried about “whether government officials abused their power and put their thumb on the scale” during the course of the federal Russia investigation.
President Trump later appeared to seize on Barr’s comments, saying his 2016 had been “conclusively spied on” by the Obama administration while calling the charge akin to “treason” and demanding jail time for those behind it
Wallace criticized Barr for publicly raising concerns about career law enforcement officials without citing any evidence.
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WATCH: MSNBC's Wallace airs "disclaimer" before showing "potentially dangerous" Barr interview https://t.co/1ZWdaK6iin pic.twitter.com/6FzCAsVbjt
— The Hill (@thehill) May 18, 2019
Whatevs https://t.co/5BJrM9jA4I
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 17, 2019
This is what happens when Trump enablers use terms like “spying” to refer to a legitimate counter intelligence investigation against an enemy attack on our democratic institutions. https://t.co/5BJrM9jA4I
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 17, 2019
2019: The President of the United States is demanding long jail sentences for FBI officials who investigated threats from a hostile foreign adversary
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) May 17, 2019
Who needs a DoJ IG report when you have Twitter?
Fat Orange Duce has already pronounced the 2016 CI activities of the US IC to be "TREASON."
Yes, this is really happening.
There is no bottom, as @TheRickWilson says, more accurately by the day.https://t.co/r9Yq35m9Yr
— John Schindler (@20committee) May 17, 2019
Authoritarian says what? https://t.co/oep2U4YkGJ
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 17, 2019
FOX NEWS: You said back in April that you thought there was spying going on in the Trump campaign. When do you think that started?
AG BILL BARR: I'm not going to speculate when it started. We're going to find out when it started… the explanations don't hang together. pic.twitter.com/ZISRdlo7ZL
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 17, 2019
Barr is everything his critics have said he was for thirty years https://t.co/svn024I2X3
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 17, 2019
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