In new book, Bill Barr says Mueller was 'the wrong person to investigate' Russia; probe had ‘glaring omission'

Former Attorney General Bill Barr was highly critical of the Russia investigation that took place before and during the Trump administration, and he had some choice words directed toward former special counsel Robert Mueller in a new tell-all book set to come out later this month.

"I believe Rosenstein felt that the collusion allegations were probably baseless and that the best way for the administration to get beyond the wild scandalmongering was to appoint a prominent figure who could bring things to a conclusion quickly and credibly," Barr wrote. He went on to say that one problem was that Mueller failed to look into how and why the FBI began the investigation in the first place despite it already being "a bust" by the time he got involved.