Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr said during an interview this week that special counsel John Durham’s report on the origins of the FBI’s investigation into former President Donald Trump “vindicated” the former president and that Trump was right from the beginning about what the Left was trying to do to him.

Durham’s report found that the FBI had no evidence to support launching the investigation and found “sobering” differences in how the FBI approached the Trump probe compared to other politically sensitive investigations.

Barr told Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Tuesday evening that Durham’s report was a “success” because it got to the bottom of what happened and exposed issues that have led to changes at the DOJ and FBI, even though more changes are needed.

Barr said Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the media, and the FBI were the primary culprits behind the lies that drove the conspiracy theory for years and led to multiple investigations that cost tens of millions of dollars.

“Let’s not forget what the lie was. The lie was Russiagate,” Barr said. “The lie was, there was collusion. There was nothing to support it.”

Barr said if what the Left did was not a witch-hunt, then it was “a damn good imitation of one.”

“This is one of the greatest injustices done to a presidential candidate and a president. And he was treated unfairly here,” Barr said. “So, he is vindicated as far as Russiagate is concerned.”

Barr said that while he has his differences with the former president, he believes that “he had great policies, that he deserved a lot of credit for what he accomplished, and this was a grave injustice.”

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“And the fact that he was able to accomplish a lot in the face of it, I think was a great achievement,” Barr said. “I have other problems. I’m not supporting him for renomination, but he was right on this. And this is a vindication. He had it right from the beginning.”

Several minutes later, Barr was asked again about the 2024 Republican Party primary for president and his thoughts about the former president.

Barr said that he believes the Durham report is going to help Trump in the short term, but that he believes Trump “will not win the nomination.”

“And I have nothing personal against him, and there’s no — I have no antipathy toward him at all,” Barr said. “But I just don’t think he’s the right leader for the Republican Party going forward. I think people who want to restore America should look for a big victory that brings strength into the Congress and allows us to achieve some fundamental changes. And I don’t think he’s capable of delivering that kind of victory.”

Barr said that he believes Trump has the best chance of losing to Biden of any of the Republicans running or who are likely to run, and that his concern is “even if he won,” Trump “would wipe out Republicans in the Congress because of the vast turnout that would occur just to vote against him.”

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron won the state’s GOP gubernatorial primary, according to a poll projection from The Associated Press.

Cameron, who became the state’s first African American attorney general, announced his bid for Kentucky governor last year, looking to oust current Democratic Governor Andy Beshear. He defeated Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles and former U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft for the Republican nomination.

The Associated Press called the race Tuesday evening after Cameron secured 45.4% to Craft’s 17.6%, and was officially named the first major-party Black gubernatorial nominee in the state’s history.

“I think often about my ancestors who struggled for freedom,” Cameron said at the RNC. “I also think about Joe Biden who says, ‘If you aren’t voting for me, you ain’t black,’ who argued that Republicans would put us back in chains, who said there is no diversity of thought in the black community.”

“Mr. Vice President, look at me. I am black; we are not all the same, sir. I am not in chains. My mind is my own,” he added.

Cameron became known as the frontrunner after receiving an endorsement from former and current presidential candidate Donald Trump, who won the state by double digits during the 2020 election.

Trump joined Cameron on Sunday for a tele-rally supporting the GOP nominee for governor, according to CNN.

“I’ve been with him all the way, and now he’s doing this, and I have no doubt he’s going to be a fantastic governor,” the former president said.

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Cameron also received support from Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the chamber’s Republican leader, after serving as legal counsel for the lawmaker.

Cameron acknowledged the riff between Trump and McConnell earlier this year to The Associated Press, saying that his candidacy for Kentucky governor represents different factions within the GOP.

“They’ve got their differences,” Cameron told reporters at the Kentucky Capitol. “I think what our candidacy means is that we’re able to transcend a lot of different factions within the Republican Party and bring people together. And I think that is what ultimately this candidacy represents.”

Last year, Cameron blasted so-called “stakeholder capitalism” in a opinion letter advising the Bluegrass State not to follow the globalist investment trend with taxpayer funds after the World Economic Forum gathered in Davos to continue its push for “ESG,” or Environmental, Social, Governance investing, a trend that scores companies by their commitment to progressive causes.

Cameron wrote that investing public funds with managers who subscribe to the practice violates Kentucky law, arguing that management of the state’s pension fund must seek to maximize profits for taxpayers, not advance a political agenda.

Scott Jennings, a prominent Republican consultant in the state who was neutral in the primary, told POLITICO he believes Cameron’s chances of becoming governor bank on the fact he advocated for people who feel like they were disenfranchised, or not listened to, or trampled upon during COVID.

“I mean small business owners, churches, parents,” Jennings said. “There’s a lot of people out there that are still pretty sore about that.”

Cameron said at a campaign stop in Shepherdsville last month, reported by The New York Times, that he took action when Governor Beshear “shut down churches.”

“I went into federal court and, after nine days, got churches reopened in Kentucky,” Cameron said.

Cameron now heads to the gubernatorial election in November to face Governor Beshear, who currently holds a 63% approval rating in the state.