CNN Analyst Torches Barr: Watched The House Burn Down Then 'Tossed His Drink On It'

Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor, bashed Bill Barr's efforts at "image rehabilitation" after advancing Trump's big lie.

CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said Monday that former Attorney General Bill Barr’s recent efforts to distance himself from former President Donald Trump’s election lies are “image rehabilitation, pure and simple.” Barr told The Atlantic in an interview published Sunday that he suspected all along that Trump’s electoral fraud claims were “bullshit.” Yet he played along with the charade at the time, and did not publicly dispute the lies until nearly a month after the election. Honig, a former federal prosecutor, told CNN’s Erin Burnett that Barr was backtracking because he’s “very conscious of his image and the way he’s perceived.”