William Barr’s Trump book: self-serving narratives and tricky truths ignored

The two-time attorney general portrays himself as a bulwark against his former boss - but his accounts are highly selective

In his new book, Donald Trump's former attorney general William Barr complains that in the US, the most educated and influential people are more attached to self-serving narratives than to factual truth".

But in his own narrative of his tumultuous time as Trump's top lawyer, Barr regularly omits inconvenient truths or includes self-serving versions of events previously reported with his evident input.