Barr: 'Infuriating' for Schiff to insist there was collusion after 'collapse' of 'Russiagate'
by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter |
| June 23, 2020 10:47 AM
Attorney General William Barr said it is “infuriating†that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff insists there was collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia after a “complete collapse†of the “Russiagate†scandal.
Barr, who has served as President Trump’s attorney general since early 2019, criticized members of the media for pushing what he views as false claims of Trump-Russia coordination and Democrats for saying one thing behind closed doors and another in front of the cameras.
Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo pressed Barr on Schiff’s repeated declarations of there being “collusion in plain sight†and asked the attorney general about “accountability."
"Well, as far as public comments like these people have been making in press conferences and on television and so forth, you know, the accountability is really elections for Schiff. That’s why we have elections. If the people of his district want him to continue to behave as he has, then they can send him back to office,†Barr said in a clip of Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures, which aired Tuesday on Fox News. "It is infuriating, and it’s the same phenomenon I discussed with the media, which is the media misled the American people grossly over a long period of time with exaggerated claims and misinformation, and they haven’t been held accountable — and the same for a lot of these talking heads."
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