US Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday, July 28, said that he did not read the Twitter account of the President of the United States Donald Trump, while in February the minister said that the tweets of the head of state interfere with the work of the Justice Department.
Answering the question of Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell, asked during the hearings in the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, whether Barr reads the American leader’s Twitter, the head of the Department of Justice replied: “No.” The congressman posted the video of the meeting on his Twitter. According to Swallwell, in Trump’s personal account on the social network “there is a lot of evidence” that the head of the White House is lying.
On February 14, Barr complained about the President’s fascination with social networks. According to him, the American leader has never asked him to do something that is against the law, but when he makes public statements on Twitter, it prevents him from doing his job. Later, White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham noted that Trump is very effective in using social media to fight on the side of the American people against injustice in the country, including the false media.
Trump often uses Twitter, in his account he publishes comments on the internal situation in the United States and on the country’s foreign policy. He has repeatedly said that social networks, in particular Twitter, allow him to convey messages to millions of people, bypassing the media reporting fake news. At the same time, the president notes that he keeps records on Twitter personally, without resorting to the services of assistants.