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Donald Trump lashed out against attorney general Bill Barr after a fruitless attempt to recruit a federal attorney to probe the 2020 election and called him a 'phony', a new book claims.
In the weeks following the November election, Barr - until then a staunch Trump ally - publicly began distancing himself from the former president's wild claims of widespread fraud.
Trump had made personal calls to U.S. attorneys in swing districts urging them to open an investigation into President Joe Biden's victory, according to an excerpt of Michael Wolff's book Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency in the Daily Beast.
When they didn't, he turned his anger toward an increasingly distant Barr, claiming 'If I had won, Barr would have licked the floor if I asked him to. What a phony!'
Donald Trump called Bill Barr a 'phony' after the former president failed to find a U.S. attorney to probe the 2020 election results, a new book claims (pictured holding a press conference in Bedminster on July 7)
Wolff's third book on the Trump White House delves into the dramatic fallout of an outgoing president desperately trying to cling to power - even as his own circle expressed unease.
Barr resigned from his role in early December and stepped down after Christmas, seemingly drawing a line after months of walking in lock-step with Trump.
Wolff's new book is his third about Donald Trump
He said in the weeks following the election the U.S. intelligence community found no evidence of fraud "on a scale that could have
