Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Bill Barr has been hitting the book publicity tour hard.

This is the former attorney general who served under President Trump. He's out with his new memoir titled One Damn Thing After Another.

Now, we've seen this dance before from other past members of President Trump's circle, right?

You write a book promoting the juicy and salacious details of the Trump administration.

You say you are close enough to the action to see everything, but not complicit in any attempts

to potentially overthrow democracy.

And you lightly criticize the former president, but remind everyone that the radical

left is the real threat to America.

Barr hits all those notes in this interview with NPR Steve Inski.

But what makes this interview fascinating is the moment Steve runs him down a line of questioning

until Barr argues that, hey, he was just doing his job.

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Former Attorney General William Barr says people have the wrong idea of his service under former President Trump.

The media chose to weave a narrative that I was a toady to the president, and that was

false from the beginning, because I felt I could be independent, and I was.

Barr tells his version of events in a memoir titled One Damn Thing After Another.

That's how one of his predecessors described the Attorney General's

job. Bar says he refuted Trump's claims about a stolen election. He also defends decisions he made

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