Bill Barr claimed to have yelled at former President Donald Trump after he asked the attorney general about Hunter Biden’s laptop, a new excerpt from Barr’s explosive forthcoming memoir revealed on Wednesday.
The ex-attorney general and his boss did not speak until weeks past the election afterwards, Barr wrote in his personal account of the Trump White House titled One Damn Thing After Another.
In the latest segment obtained by Fox, Barr described an October 2020 phone call from Trump. It was allegedly soon after the former president watched a Newsmax clip about the laptop, which threatened to have explosive information on then-candidate Biden and his recovering drug addict son.
Barr claimed Trump asked him: ‘You know this stuff from Hunter Biden’s laptop?’
‘Mr. President, I can’t talk about that, and I am not going to,’ Barr said he ‘sharply’ replied.
The former Cabinet official said Trump was displeased with his tone and asked him to consider whether it was one of his five children instead of Biden’s son.
‘You know, if that was one of my kids– ‘ Trump began, according to the book.
Barr cut him off: ‘Dammit, Mr. President, I am not going to talk to you about Hunter Biden. Period!’
Barr and Trump (pictured together in July 2019) butted heads more than once during Barr’s final months as Trump’s attorney general, his new book reveals
The attorney general said his chief of staff was left stunned after the phone call ended shortly thereafter.
Barr said he nodded when Levi asked, ‘You yelled at the President?’
Barr claimed to have attended an election night party the next month but otherwise had no direct contact with Trump until three weeks after the election.
A New York Post report from October 2020 that emails found on Hunter’s laptop could purportedly implicate Joe in his embattled son’s international business dealings during his time as vice president.
A hard drive obtained by DailyMail.com revealed the laptop contained communications that appear to show deals cut by Hunter and his business associates, and meetings with foreign officials while his dad was in the Obama administration.
A particularly email sent to Hunter Biden outlined a ‘provisional agreement’ that included 10 percent equity in a Chinese energy company for ‘the big guy’ – later identified as Joe Biden.
It also contained salacious pictures and videos of the current president’s son performing sexual acts with prostitutes and using what appears to be a crack pipe.
Trump and his opponents had hoped the laptop would derail Biden’s presidential campaign.
The most recently revealed clash centers around Hunter Biden (right), who Barr refused to discuss with Trump because there had been an active investigation into the recovering drug addict’s business dealings
A serious of compromising pictures of Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter, 50, (above) have been released just weeks ahead of the US election on November 3 in a shocking move that some have suggested may prompt distrust in Joe Biden
In some of the images, Hunter Biden is seen with a crack pipe hanging out of his mouth. His struggles with drug addiction have been well documented in the past
In December 2020, just after Biden clinched the presidency, it was revealed that federal investigators were looking into his son’s overseas business dealings and whether he was guilty of tax fraud.
Trump and his Republican allies in Congress called for a special counsel to investigate the matter, but Barr poured cold water the idea in a press conference just days before leaving Trump’s Justice Department in late December.
‘I think to the extent there’s an investigation, I think that it’s being handled responsibly and professionally currently within the department,’ Barr said.
In his book, out March 8, Barr makes the case for why he does not believe Trump should be allowed to run for president again in 2024
‘To this point I have not seen a reason to appoint a special counsel, and I have no plan to do so before I leave.’
But the October 2020 meeting was not the only time the two men clashed, according to Barr’s forthcoming memoir, to be released on March 8.
Barr wrote in a previously released excerpt that Trump had ‘lost his grip’ after the 2020 election and urged his fellow Republicans to bury the former president’s election fraud claims.
‘The election was not “stolen.” Trump lost it,’ the former attorney general states plainly.
Trump and Barr’s relationship soured after Barr, the nation’s top law enforcement official at the time, told the Associated Press on December 1, 2020 that his Justice Department found no evidence of widespread election fraud.
‘This is killing me — killing me. This is pulling the rug right out from under me,’ Barr claims Trump shouted, just hours after he further legitimized Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
Barr writes that Trump then told him: ‘You must hate Trump. You would only do this if you hate Trump.’
The seasoned DOJ veteran defended himself, writing that he replied to Trump that he had ‘sacrificed a lot personally to come in to help you when I thought you were being wronged.’
He also restated that the DOJ failed to verify accusations the election was rigged, as Trump lawyers like Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis launched on a nationwide tour to promote the conspiracy theories at the time.
Trump then embarked on a tirade full of his criticisms against Barr, the ex-attorney general recalls, until Barr finally offered to resign his post.
‘Accepted!’ Trump reportedly shouted while slamming his desk. ‘Leave and don’t go back to your office. You are done right now. Go home!’
