Barr suggests people may take Trump rhetoric ‘too literally’

Former Attorney General Bill Barr suggested Friday that people might take former President Trump “too literally” and that Trump would not take any serious action to threaten others.

CNN anchor Caitlan Collins tells Barr that the person who leaked information that the former president went to the bunker during the 2020 protests over George Floyd’s death should be executed. I asked him if he remembered when he spoke.

“I remember him being very angry about it. Actually, I don’t remember him saying, ‘I’m going to execute,’ but I, you know, I don’t disagree with that.” Deaf,” Barr said. Highlighted by Mediaite. “The president would get angry and say something like that. I don’t think he would actually do it.”

Collins asked Barr if Trump has said similar things on other occasions.

“I think people sometimes take him too literally. He’s said things like that sometimes to vent his frustration, but I don’t take him too literally every time. There wasn’t,” Barr said.

The former attorney general said he doesn’t take President Trump’s threats literally because “at the end of the day, it’s not going to be carried out.”

The former president’s reported threat to execute anyone who leaked information about his actions during protests was not the only time he claimed someone should die.

President Trump’s legal team proposed earlier this year that a president who threatened to direct a sixth SEAL team to kill political opponents should be eligible for presidential immunity from prosecution. This is a refrain in his defense of a 2020 federal election interference lawsuit, which the Supreme Court began hearing on Thursday. Seeking immunity for the president in this case.

Barr, who served as attorney general for the last two years of Trump’s White House term, supported the former president in the upcoming election despite criticism.

He has said he will vote “on the Republican ticket” in November’s election, with Trump likely to be the candidate.