Kinzinger said if Trump is reelected he would select an attorney general willing to disregard the Constitution. Trump clashed with both of his attorneys general, Jeff Sessions and William Barr.
Barr, who served as attorney general under Trump, told CBS he believes his former boss's conduct in the classified documents case "is indefensible."
Trump previously called Barr "a weak and pathetic RINO" in response to the former attorney general defending the DOJ's search of Mar-a-Lago.
The House January 6 committee's fifth public hearing captured the drama inside the Justice Department as Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election.
Trump's comments came a day after a conservative federal judge warned Congress the former president poses a "clear and present danger" to US democracy.
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2022-06-13T22:09:17Z
Former Attorney General William Barr is featuring prominently in the House January 6 committee's telling of how Trump deserves blame for January 6.
Barr's comments came from an interview he gave to the January 6 committee, which was televised on Monday during a public hearing.
The former president reacted to Barr's testimony saying that he didn't agree that the election was "stolen" and that he told Trump the idea was "bullshit."
The Justice Department made the revelation at a pre-trial hearing for five Proud Boy leaders whose seditious conspiracy trial is scheduled for August 8.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr criticized Donald Trump's temperament and said he would "absolutely" help a candidate defeat him in the 2024 primary.
Barr wrote that Trump "was motivated by the self-pitying egotism" and warned that his current "purge" of the GOP is "a form of suicide" for the party.
Barr wrote in his new book that "the collective meltdown of the political and cultural elite" over Trump's election was "something to behold."
Trump's legal team "had a difficult case to make, and they made it as badly and unprofessionally as I could have imagined," Barr wrote in his new book.
Barr details in his new memoir how Trump was a "hyperactive generator of ideas," though many of them were "bad" and "legally problematic."
"Who did I want determining the direction of the Supreme Court for years to come: Trump or Hillary Clinton? The question was not close," Barr wrote.
"There is no question he changed after the election; he lost his grip," Barr wrote of Trump, who he says "went off the rails."
"It's par for the course," Barr said of Trump. "When he's told something he doesn't want to hear, he immediately throws a tantrum."
"The election was over for all intents and purposes. The idea that something could be done later on January 6 was nonsense," Barr said.
DOJ's inspector general found it "disturbing" that former US Attorney Scott Brady lacked contrition for personally attacking a career prosecutor.
The Justice Department inspector general said a Trump-era US attorney's conduct at a press conference was "unbecoming" of any DOJ official.