Former Attorney General William Barr told the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election were bogus. But the phrase that made the headlines was his speculation that the former president was "detached from reality." Those words may hand Donald Trump a "get out of jail free" card.
Barr must have known that hinting that his former boss no longer could tell the difference between truth and fiction could make it more difficult for the Department of Justice to prove Trump's culpability.
