Fox News' Chris Wallace calls out Barr for transparently playing defense for Trump

Fox News' Chris Wallace thinks Attorney General William Barr sounds a lot like a counselor to the president right about now.

The Fox anchor spoke after Barr's press conference about the impending release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, noting that the attorney general got into a "curious area" when he sympathetically talked about Trump's frustrations with the Mueller probe and the media's "relentless" coverage of it to argue Trump did not have corrupt intent.

Wallace observed that Barr "almost seemed to be acting as the counselor for the defense, the counselor for the president rather than the attorney general, talking about his motives, talking about his anger, his feeling that this was unfair … really making a case for the president.”

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As a result of this, Wallace imagined that "Democrats' heads on Capitol Hill were exploding." Brendan Morrow