Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) blamed Attorney General William Barr of committing a crime by lying to Congress in sworn testimony. After that, White House officials came with feedback.
Deputy press secretary Steven Groves was talking on MSNBC on this as he said:
“The fact that the Speaker would take it upon herself to call him a liar is really, really inappropriate and beneath her office.”
A lot of Democrats in Congress attacked Barr, some of them even asked for a resignation because (as they claim) he did not testify in a truthful way.
Steven Groves also defended Barr’s comments, saying that he was responding at the time to a question about those on Mueller’s team quoted anonymously in a New York Times piece, and not Mueller’s letter itself.
“At that moment, that was the private correspondence between Attorney General Barr and special counsel Mueller. I mean, I don’t know what was going through his head, but one of the things might have been, ‘Hey that was a private exchange, maybe I’m not going to reveal that on national television. Watching that exchange in its totality, the idea that he would be called a liar or accused of perjury is just so outrageous that I don’t even know how to react to it.’’
William Barr raised a lot of controversies after he released the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, which the Democrats claim that he hid some very important details and that the Attorney General acted like a lawyer of the President.
The Hill reported that Barr endured a grilling from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, but refused to attend a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday after the Democrats voted to allow staff attorneys to ask questions.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she lost sleep while watching replays of Barr’s testimony.
“He lied to Congress, he lied to Congress. And if anybody else did that, it would be considered a crime,’’ Pelosi said.
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