Barr Says Secret Service Told Trump to Go to White House Bunker
- President has claimed that he went there for ‘an inspection’
- Removal of protesters was reaction to violence, Barr says
William Barr
Photographer: Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg
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Attorney General William Barr said that the U.S. Secret Service told Donald Trump to go to a secure part of the White House as large protests unfolded outside, contradicting the president’s account of what happened.
“Things were so bad that the Secret Service recommended that the president go down to the bunker,” Barr said Monday evening in an interview on Fox News. “We can’t have that in our country.”