Peter Navarro says Bill Barr is ‘Deep State,’ details how he was working against Trump admin all along

Bill Barr was seen by many as a significant upgrade over Jeff Sessions as the leader of the Trump administration’s U.S. Department of Justice, but Peter Navarro has a different opinion.

The former White House trade advisor claims that Barr was President Joe Biden’s “first attorney general” based on the way the DOJ under Barr (presumably before he left) allegedly pre-cleared or fast-tracked Biden’s blitz of executive orders that went into effect as soon as he was inaugurated. Navarro described the situation as Deep State coup and insisted that Barr should have been fired much sooner than his December 2020 departure.

Navarro was responding to a question from Fox News Channel host Maria Bartiromo who wondered how 17 of Biden’s left-wing wish list of executive orders were promptly ready to go on day one. In contrast to the way Biden’s edicts were vetted quickly through the federal bureaucracy, Navarro asserted that DOJ lawyers dragged their feet on then-President Donald Trump’s directives.

“We got slow-walked at the Department of Justice, and this is a problem I told Barr about numerous times. And he should have been fired months before he was. By the last year of this administration, he was really working against this administration in a lot of ways,” Navarro said Sunday.

“And these executive orders, the bottleneck was at the Department of Justice on so many things that we did. And you can see what President Biden is doing now. He’s just unwinding things that are gonna come back to haunt the American worker big time,” Navarro declared on “Sunday Morning Futures.”