Trump’s Attorney General William Barr spent Thursday showing his intellectual superiority over Senators, especially Dems, as he testified on Capitol Hill about the Mueller report. 

During the testimony, he was questioned by Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, and Barr swiftly embarrassed him.

According to The Daily Caller:

Barr alleged during his testimony to the House Appropriations Committee in April that “spying did occur” against the Trump campaign as the FBI investigated alleged ties to Russia.

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Whitehouse grilled Barr about his use of the term “spying” in relation to those efforts, suggesting that the term was not accurate because the activities of the DOJ were “authorized.”

“I’m not going to abjure the use of the word ‘spying,’” Barr said. “My first job was in CIA. I don’t think the word ‘spying’ has any pejorative connotation at all.”

Barr continued, “I think spying is a good English word that, in fact, doesn’t have synonyms because it is the broadest word incorporating really all forms of covert intelligence collection, so I’m not going to back off the word ‘spying.’”

Barr also cited that the press used the word to describe authorized activities up until the Dems decided to weaponize it a couple of weeks ago.