Former AG Bill Barr Comes Out Swinging Against Rudy Giuliani’s Legal Antics In New Book

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His legal team had a difficult case to make, and they made it as badly and unprofessionally as I could have imagined. It was all a grotesque embarrassment.

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Rudy Giuliani saved New York City after 9/11 and should go down as probably the most consequential mayor of a big city in American history. But he will also go down as the man who helped President Trump get himself impeached—not once but, as it turned out, twice.

— Former Attorney General William Barr, offering commentary on Rudy Giuliani’s failed efforts to both pressure Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden’s son and overturn the results of the 2020 election in his new book, “One Damn Thing After Another,” which was released earlier this week.

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Bill Barr, Books, Government, Quote of the Day, Rudy Giuliani