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Opinion Have you heard about how Bill Barr saved democracy? Let Bill Barr tell you.

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March 4, 2022 at 3:59 p.m. EST
President Donald Trump and Attorney General William P. Barr at the White House on May 22, 2019. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
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Have you heard about how Bill Barr saved democracy?

It’s all there — in this new book by, er, Bill Barr.

In excerpts published Thursday in the Wall Street Journal, President Donald Trump’s former attorney general recounts how he bravely stood up to Trump about his bogus claims of election fraud, telling him: “The fact is, we have looked at the major claims your people are making, and they are bulls---.”