Former AG Bill Barr Says DOJ ‘Cast Their Net Far Too Broadly’ Going After January 6 Protesters
Former Attorney General Bill Barr says that the Department of Justice cast its net “far too broadly” when prosecuting people who were at the Capitol on January 6.
Barr made the comment while speaking to Neil Cavuto on Fox News for the third anniversary of the protest.
“Well, you know, like everything else the left does, they did, I think, go too far,” Barr told Cavuto on Saturday.
“I think there were people involved in January 6, particularly the people who attacked the police and broke their way into the Capitol, there were people that should have been prosecuted, but I think they cast their net far too broadly and have been hounding people that really, you know,