Bill Barr Slams Trump's 'Foul' Language On Immigrants: 'Racist Overtones'

Donald Trump's former attorney general reacted on CNN to the ex-president's "poisoning the blood" comments.

William Barr has denounced former President Donald Trump’s recent rhetoric about immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country.”

“I’m offended by it because it has racist overtones,” Barr, who served as Trump’s attorney general, told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview Wednesday.

Barr suggested that while border control is an important issue, immigrants from Latin America “have made great citizens.”

“The fact that we have a reservoir to our south of these people who come out of the Western tradition, they’re religious people, good family people in general, is a boon to the United States,” he said.

“Does that mean they all are like that? No. And does bringing in a lot of people at once from a different country, does that put strains on our system and harm the country to an extent? Yes, it does,” he continued. “But the attacks on, the idea that they pollute our blood, I think they’re foul.”