Barr tells Jan. 6 panel Trump 'detached from reality'
Donald Trump’s closest campaign advisers, top government officials and even his family were dismantling his false claims of 2020 election fraud ahead of Jan. 6, but the defeated president was becoming “detached from reality” and clinging to outlandish theories to stay in power, the committee investigating the Capitol attack was told Monday. The committee played video testimony from former Attorney General William Barr who told lawmakers that dealing with former President Trump's allegations of election fraud were "like playing Whac-a-Mole," adding that the claims were "bogus," "idiotic" and "bull--." "He was becoming detached from reality,” said Barr. The former attorney general, who also testified in last week's blockbuster hearing, said that Trump was “as mad as I'd ever seen him” when the attorney general explained that the Justice Department would not take sides in the election.
