Barr seeks to assure senators he won't be a Trump loyalist
WASHINGTON (AP) ” Vowing “I will not be bullied,” President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general asserted independence from the White House, saying he believed that Russia had tried to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, that the special counsel investigation shadowing Trump is not a witch hunt and that his predecessor was right to recuse himself from the probe.The comments by William Barr at his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday pointedly departed from Trump’s own […]
