Former Attorney General William Barr was spotted by journalists leaving a meeting with investigators from the House select committee probing the events surrounding the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Barr, who served under former President Donald Trump from February 2019 to December 2020, resigned in the wake of the 2020 election. The former attorney general drew Trump's anger after he rejected his conspiracy theories and baseless assertions that the presidential election results were "rigged" or "stolen." He reportedly told Trump directly that the often bizarre claims were "bulls**t."
CNN previously reported in May that Barr was in talks with House investigators to meet with the January 6 committee to testify. On Thursday, video of Barr leaving a room where investigators meet with witnesses was shared by Fox News producer James Levinson. CNN and NBC News later reported that Barr was seen after meeting with the House investigators.
In his 2022 book, One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General, Barr described Trump's election fraud claims as "bulls**t." Although he had the Justice Department probe some of the allegations, Barr ultimately determined there was "no evidence" that President Joe Biden's win was the result of widespread fraud.
In a March op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal, Barr wrote about confronting Trump over the claims before he resigned in December 2020.
"Our mission is to investigate and prosecute actual fraud," Barr wrote that he...
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