TAPPER: “With me now in studio, former Attorney General Bill Barr. Thank you so much for being here, General Barr.”

Barr: “Good to be here, Jake.”

TAPPER: “What’s your initial reaction?”

Barr: “Well, as you know, I strongly oppose Donald Trump for the Republican nomination, but I think that this case is legally wrong and untenable. And I think this kind of action of stretching the law, taking these hyper-aggressive positions to try to knock Trump out of the race are counterproductive, they backfire. As you know, he feeds on grievance, just like fire feeds on oxygen. And this is going to end up as a grievance that helps him.”

[As a friend — no fan of Trump — said to me last night: “Doesn’t this just prove everything Trump has been saying about rigged systems?” I don’t know about *prove,* but it has given those argumemts a huge boost in credibility. — Ed]