Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Saturday that the Department of Justice has cast its net “far too broadly” when it comes to prosecuting those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Barr made the comment on Fox News’s Cavuto Live after three more arrests were made in connection with the deadly riot on its three-year anniversary, bringing the count to 1,265, according to the DOJ.
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“Like everything else the Left does, they did, I think, go too far,” Barr said.
The former attorney general, who served under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Donald Trump, argued that the Justice Department is justified in prosecuting some people who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, particularly those who attacked the police and “broke their way into” the building.
“I think they cast their net far too broadly and have been hounding people that really just walked in to open doors in the Capitol and hung around,” Barr said. “I think they just took it too far.”
Barr, who resigned from the Trump administration two weeks before the riot, said he did not want to minimize what happened three years ago. He declined to call it an insurrection, instead describing it as a “shameful episode.”
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Host Neil Cavuto pivoted to President Joe Biden’s recent messaging on the events of Jan. 6 and Trump’s role in the riot, which Barr said is the only thing the incumbent has to run on as he seeks a second term in the White House.
“It sort of shows what the dynamic of this election is,” Barr said.
