AG Barr is in Trump's doghouse amid Durham, Flynn probe revelations - Business Insider

The DOJ inspector general concluded last year that no such improper surveillance took place.After Barr overrode career prosecutors in February to request a more lenient sentence for the Trump ally and convicted felon Roger Stone, the president applauded the attorney general "for taking charge of a case that was totally out of control and perhaps should not have even been brought."Three months later, when Barr and senior DOJ officials moved to dismiss the department's case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Trump told Fox News in an interview that "Bill Barr is a man of unbelievable credibility and courage, and he's going to go down in the history of our country."And last year, while he was strongarming the Ukrainian government into launching politically motivated investigations targeting his Democratic rival, the president told Ukraine's president it "would be great" if he contacted Barr and Trump's personal defense lawyer Rudy Giuliani to probe the matter.But Barr's fortunes took a turn for the worse in the last week.On Friday, the attorney general landed in the president's crosshairs when he told Republican senators that a separate investigation he is overseeing on the origins of the FBI's Russia investigation will not conclude in time to release a report before the November election.Trump has long said that investigation, spearheaded by the US attorney John Durham, will show evidence that the Obama administration and the "deep state" masterminded a plot to take him down by illegally launching the FBI's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.So far, the Durham probe has resulted in a criminal charge against a former FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to making false statements to investigators.