Former Attorney General Bill Barr said he became “demoralized” when discussing allegations of voting fraud tied to Dominion voting machines with former President Donald Trump because Trump had “become detached from reality if he really believes this stuff.”
Appearing at the Jan. 6 committee hearing Monday via video testimony recorded earlier, Barr told the panel that Trump had no interest in what the facts were.
“Before the election, it was possible to talk sense to the president and, while you sometimes had to engage in a big wrestling match with him, it was possible to keep things on track,” Barr said in interviews recorded earlier this year with the committee. “I felt that after the election he didn’t seem to be listening.”
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