CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Taken Aback When Bill Barr Refuses To Say Biden Not Behind Hush Money Trial

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins was surprised when former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr conspicuously refused to say President Joe Biden is not behind the hush money prosecution of former President Donald Trump.

As often as Trump can make the false claim that Biden is directing the criminal cases against him, Collins and her CNN colleagues have been calling it out and debunking it.

But at the start of a two-segment interview on Friday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins couldn’t get Barr to concede there’s no evidence of Trump’s claim, but when press would on ;y say he doesn’t “think he’s in charge of an investigation. But politics, this is a political case”:

KAITLAN COLLINS: Here Tonight by William Barr, who served as the former president’s attorney general, and who told him that his 2020 allegations of election fraud were not true, but is now said he will support the Republican ticket. Therefore Donald Trump again. Mr. Attorney General, it’s great to have you. I want to talk to you about how you’re going to vote in 2024 in a moment. But, you know, putting the merits aside, I like how you’re laughing about that, putting the merits aside, because I know you don’t agree with the merits of the New York hush money case, but you worked for Donald Trump. You got to know him. What do you think it’s like for him to be in court, being treated like any other criminal defendant and having to be there four days a week?

BILL BARR: I think it’s real tough on him. You know, I and I think a lot of the country sympathizes with him. So I think the longer the trial goes on, the more support he gets.

KAITLAN COLLINS: Well, I mean, he has claimed multiple times that this case is being brought essentially by President Biden. I mean, you know how this works and how the breakdown in this works. Presidents don’t have any role in what a local district attorney, what case they bring.

BILL BARR: That’s normally true, and I don’t, and I’m not suggesting Biden is involved. But I think what they’re saying is that this former federal official who’s gone up to try the case, that this somehow shows a link. I don’t know whether it does or not.

KAITLAN COLLINS: Yeah, but do you agree? I mean, you worked you were the attorney general. Prosecutors leave and go work at other places all the time.

BILL BARR: That’s right. I you know, I think, the impetus for this came from the New York prosecutors. I think that they’re behind it.

KAITLAN COLLINS: And not President Biden.

BILL BARR: I don’t know, I don’t know.

KAITLAN COLLINS: But, yeah, but you have no basis to believe that the president would be in charge of an investigation that’s being brought by the Manhattan district attorney.

BILL BARR: I don’t know, you know, I don’t think he’s in charge of an investigation. But politics, this is a political case.

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.