Bill Barr says Trump will 'burn the whole house down' and destroy the GOP if he doesn't win the 2024

[ificandream]

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Source: Business Insider/Tom Porter

Former Attorney Bill Barr said that Donald Trump would seek to destroy the Republican Party if defeated in his bid to become its 2024 presidential nominee.

In an op-ed in The New York Post published on Tuesday, Barr addressed Trump's announcement last week that he was seeking the Republican Party candidacy for the White House in 2024.

He said that if Trump loses the nomination, it could tear the GOP apart.

"Unless the rest of the party goes along with him, he will burn the whole house down by leading 'his people' out of the GOP," Barr said, referring to the former president's hardline supporters in the party.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/barr-says-trump-will-destroy-gop-if-loses-2024-nomination-2022-11

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Link to Barr's full op-ed: https://nypost.com/2022/11/21/trump-threatens-to-burn-down-the-gop-its-time-to-move-on/

[Ocelot II]

1. Bite me, Bill. You helped create this monster.

[3auld6phart]

16. Right you Re

You created that orange bastard

[ZonkerHarris]

34. Funny thing about a Golem, it always turns on its creators.

[Ocelot II]

59. Yeah, Mary Shelley figured that out, too.

[ZonkerHarris]

70. same thing

[3catwoman3]

2. May he please die before then

His dirt nap is long overdue.

[sop]

4. Not before he destroys the Republican party in 2024.

Then he can nap.

[Polybius]

79. Actually I hope he lasts until after 2028

He can ruin them then too. I guess we are on our own in 2032.

[mzmolly]

32. May he die in prison, after he destroys

the GOP.

[wryter2000]

38. Ding, ding

We have a winner

[True Blue American]

74. Do we ever!

MzMolly for Post of the Day! Or Year!

[mzmolly]

81. I'm honored.

[mzmolly]

80. LOL

Thanks!

[Wibly]

3. They don't need Trump's help

Seems to me the GOP is doing a good job of burning their own house down, even without Trump.
Bill Barr is a fine example, attacking school teachers, acting like he had nothing to do with subverting the Mueller Report, or serving in Trump's cabinet.
Then there is Herschel, and Lindsey and Jim Jordan and the list goes on and on.

[ificandream]

7. Don't forget MTG. And it's funny the dopes don't see what's crumbling beneath them. :)

[mahina]

76. Not fast enough.

[jalan48]

6. Sounds great!

[tinrobot]

8. For once, I hope Barr is correct.

Burn it all down.

[Lovie777]

9. Just the GQP .....

leave us alone.

p.s. Barr will still vote for him

[Warpy]

62. Well, Bill, it's a dirty job but somebody's gonna do it

so it might as well be TFG in a fit of pique who destroys that irreparably corrupt party.

If anybody opposes him, he's going to try to incite violence at the convention, which is why I think 2924 is the year for the national convention to erupt into a Donnybrook.

That tired, filthy, putrid old GOP elephant should have lumbered off to the elephants' graveyard long ago.

[vlyons]

10. Fine by me. Rip the sucker apart.

Lead all the MAGA assholes into a new 3rd party, and make the leftover GOP incapable of garnering enough votes to win elections.

Blow the GOP sucker to shreds.

[Jilly_in_VA]

11. How I look at it

When it gets too dirty for Billy Barr, it's really nasty.

[Icanthinkformyself]

12. Is there a problem

with that? I don't see it. I hope he takes down the billionaires club he never belonged to as well. That would be the best thing that could happen. The world would rejoice. We could use their money to clean up the mess they made.

[Freethinker65]

13. Americans say Bill Barr lost all credibility left after Barr's prewritten BS Mueller Report summary

[mjvpi]

83. Agree, but he lost it when he recommended pardons for Iran Contra participants.

That was Barr term one.

[Mz Pip]

14. He's right about this.

I can’t wait.

[Solly Mack]

15. "Unless the rest of the party goes along with him..."

He's not lamenting the potential demise of the GOP. He's telling everyone which way the wind is blowing.

[NCjack]

17. Now that Nancy Pelosi will pass the Speakership to Kevin McCarthy, there will

be no restraint on bring guns into the House Chamber.

Boebert and Green are crazy enough to kill someone, including one doing the other.

[MyOwnPeace]

26. 'Doing one another?'

Oh, one could only wish!!!!!!

[mahina]

58. Oh shit I had et thought about that. Really?

[NCjack]

64. Who is going to tell them "no"? (Not Kevin)

[LudwigPastorius]

18. Gee, Bill...

if only Trump had been impeached, convicted, and disqualified from ever holding office again.

I bet something like an obstruction of justice indictment from the DOJ would have helped that along...ya think?

[BigmanPigman]

54. Hear hear!

[Evolve Dammit]

66. yeah, that ship done sailed

[Martin68]

19. Bill's right about that. Serves the GOP right for spinelessly sticking with Trump for political

advantage in spite of his numerous lies, crimes, and barbarity.

[onetexan]

20. I'd like to see that happen

We already know Americans do not like insurrectionists & election deniers.

[liberalmediaaddict]

21. Thanks Captain Obvious

BARR: Trump will burn the Republican party to the ground if he loses.
REPORTER: Will you vote for him if he's the nominee?
BARR: Absolutely.

[Red Mountain]

52. Updated:

BARR: Trump will burn the Republican party to the ground if he loses.
REPORTER: Will you vote for him if he's primaried?
BARR: Absolutely.

[Temeret]

22. I wouldn't mind

at all.

[TNNurse]

23. this is my hope.

[tavernier]

24. He says that like it's a bad thing.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. If Trump doesn't win the 2024 Republican nomination, ...

... then someone else will. Where will Trump lead "his people" to? Third party?

If it's not named yet, I'd like to consider the name "Tantrum Party".

[Maraya1969]

27. Maybe that is the real meaning of Make America Great Again.

I'm all for it.

[IronLionZion]

28. Then let's make sure he loses

I'm hoping he's in prison or dead by then since many of his supporters are.

[maxsolomon]

29. Fun dayn moyl zu Got's oyem.

From your mouth to God's ear, Barr.

Actually, I think Trump will drop dead before he's able to accomplish that.

[smb]

30. He'll Immediately Start Screaming That The Primaries Were "RIGGED" and "STOLEN"

His MAGA Peanut Gallery will eat it up and tear down the GQP.

[Uncle Joe]

31. So be it, no one is mourning the Whigs or No Nothing Party

when a political party becomes ideologically and/or morally bankrupt, it's only cruel to prolong the misery past its' natural life expectancy.

For all practical purposes, the GOP has become a cult.

Thanks for the thread ificandream

[Botany]

33. "Bill Barr says Trump will 'burn the whole house down' and destroy the GOP .... "

And the bad part of that is???

BTW Barr knew Trump was Russian dirty and that Reagan & HW were running cocaine, selling
weapons to the the Ayatollah, hiding that money in Swiss bank accounts, so as to run an illegal
against peasants in central, and when caught lied their asses off about it.

[NoMoreRepugs]

51. Deputy Dawg AKA billybarr has been a ShitStain for decades.

[Evolve Dammit]

67. More like "Droopy Dog."

[bluestarone]

35. And if he wins?

AMERICA burns down!! FUCK THAT SHIT!!!

[Rebl2]

36. Good

That’s what I hope for. What used to be reasonable republicans allowed him to take over the gop. They just fell in line behind him.

[Cha]

37. Yeah we know who that treasonous fucker is.

and yeah.. good!

[patphil]

39. Works for me.

[Dopers_Greed]

40. Sound great to me!

There isn't a more deserving party to be destroyed than the GOP

[Hekate]

41. Bullshit Bill Barr -- so are you saying the GOP has to do his bidding or he'll destroy them?

Sounds like extortion to me. Also — he’s already burning the place down, so how would that be different?

As for “burning the house down” — goodness, think how many if his cultists are in the US House of Representatives, some carrying cans of gasoline and some carrying matches.

Please go away, Bullshit Bill.

[CitizenZero]

42. It Is Good To See The Republicans Fighting Amongst Themselves

I am so glad that we pretty much have unity on our side. I am grateful to be a Democrat.

[jmowreader]

43. This is the GOP's own fuckin' fault

They should have gotten in front of this shit before they got stuck with him.

[NullTuples]

44. Why does this feel like he's setting the stage for the GOP?

Oh, that's right - because he's also Federalist Society.

[Bristlecone]

45. Enabler

[True Blue American]

75. Barr is the worst

Of the enabler's! Has been since Reagan.

Why is the media pretending like he has something worth listening to? He helped scorch the dignity of this country long ago. Made it clear to Trump he would protect him in several pages. The reason Trump hired him.

[Pepsidog]

46. There is no doubt that if he loses the nomination he will burn the party to the ground and oh what a

glorious time we will have watching. In case anyone forgets, Trump is not a team player.

[quakerboy]

47. To be fair

He will continue his efforts to burn the whole house down and destroy the GOP either way.

[markodochartaigh]

48. What Republican party?

The corporate Republicans destroyed their party when they decided not to have a brokered convention and they put Trump in charge. The Bushes, Cheneys, Romney, etc. knew this in 2015, that is one reason that they refused to support Trump, even after he was their candidate. For a democracy to function there have to be at least two viable parties which are dedicated to democracy. Authoritarians are not dedicated to democracy. Unless and until the Republicans can develop a viable party dedicated to democracy, democracy in the US will be one election, or coup, away from termination.

[Hassler]

49. And Bill Felony Barr hasn't ruled out voting for Orange Judas again.

[DFW]

50. In the immortal words of Conrad Hilton

“Be my guest.”

[LiberalLovinLug]

53. Does anybody else see this could be seen as an arm-twist threat, more than a warning?

ie..... You'd BETTER nominate, and vote for Trump, or the "evil" Democrats will win because we will be in disarray.

We are thinking like they are us. They are not. They are all cowards like Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell, who maybe deep down want to see their party move on from the choas of Trump, but they'll never abandon Trump unless its very very very very clear that he's a distant second. And that won't happen until they actually nominate their final choice candidate. But make no bones about it, they would rather win with Trump, than take a chance that if he is rejected, he will stir up a damaging rebellion in the party.

[chriscan64]

55. So no concern over him destroying the country?

Or the international order, or God knows what else.

[Butterflylady]

56. The GOP was told that everything the orange blob touches

He ruins. What part of that didn't they understand? My god they were even given examples and what about the bankruptcies. Did they not hear about the contractors he stiffed and all the lawsuits. Therr is no pity for a corrupt GOP and their master.

[Skittles]

57. sounds good to me

PLEASE PROCEED

[love_katz]

60. Hey, Barr, don't threaten us with a good time. 😉

[republianmushroom]

61. Oh goody more popcorn, please

[NH Ethylene]

63. And if he loses the general (again) he will try to burn the whole country down (again). n/t

[Evolve Dammit]

65. I could care less about the GOP, I'm worried about us turning into a shithole banana republic where

firepower equals who rules. It has felt for about 10 years, like that is a possibility. WE need to prevent it since GOP seems fine with all of it. Maybe if Pence had been hung they MIGHT have had a problem?? Maybe?
I truly think they would be fine with almost anything Hitler-like (substitute any other autocrat if you prefer). That's who Orange Julius desperately wants to be. Pretty fucking clear. Arm up if you haven't. They certainly have. From MTG to Don Jr. and Lindsey.

[twodogsbarking]

68. blah, blah, yada.

[calimary]

69. Fine with me!

I love the smell of Republicans self-immolating in the morning!

[mac56]

71. Bill, don't threaten us with a good time.

[SunSeeker]

72. Barr is right about Trump still having the GOP base.

A right wing neighbor down the street here in Orange County, CA is still flying a "Trump Won" flag.

[AmBlue]

73. Like a 295-lb toddler

...that HAS to have his way! Watching him and DeSantis go at it will be priceless!

[Joinfortmill]

77. Bill Barr also needs to be investigated.

[Torchlight]

78. He'll huff and he'll puff and he'll

get winded pretty damned fast, need a sit-down, and get distracted by a bucket of chicken.

[hamsterjill]

82. So, as usual, they should all go along with Trump

For fear of his tantrum if he doesn’t get what he wants?

I’m sorry, but where are the adults in all of this?

[Aussie105]

84. Popcorn at the ready . . .

Just waiting for the cleansing power of fire to do its job.

Bring it on!

Trump has no power to do anything if his enablers walk away from him.

And yes, Barr is issuing a threat . . . back Trump or you will be sorry, GOP!