"I felt the rules were being changed to hurt Trump, and I thought it was damaging for the presidency over the long haul," Barr told The Wall Street Journal in El Salvador in an interview published Monday, where he traveled last week to boost support for Trump's policies toward the violent street gang MS-13. "At every grave juncture the presidency has done what it is supposed to do, which is to provide leadership and direction," Barr added. "If you destroy the presidency and make it an errand boy for Congress, we’re going to be a much weaker and more divided nation." BARR TEASES PELOSI, ASKS IF SHE BROUGHT HER HANDCUFFS AT DC EVENTIn an interview with Fox News' Bill Hemmer last week, Barr described that vote as "part of the usual ... political circus that's being played out. Barr told Fox News last week that he had ordered an investigation into the origins of the Russia probe because many of the answers he had gotten were "inadequate."

Source: Fox News May 21, 2019 01:18 UTC