CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin: Attorney General Bill Barr ‘Talks Like Sean Hannity’
Reacting to Attorney General William Barr’s shocking claim that he believes “spying did occur” on the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election, CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Wednesday night that this was further proof the Republican Party establishment was beholden to Fox News and its top star.
During Wednesday’s Senate Appropriations hearing, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) asked Barr about his decision to convene a team to investigate why the FBI opened an investigation into Russian election interference in the 2016 election. Barr replied that he was reviewing the “conduct of intelligence activities directed at the Trump campaign” before saying, “I think spying did occur.”
This claim that the Obama administration used the FBI and intelligence agencies to spy on the Trump campaign has been pushed by President Trump and his allies for over two years now, starting with Trump’s infamous tweet—and unfounded claim—that he “found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory.”