Barr Rebukes Trump as 'Off the Rails' in New Memoir.

[elleng]

' Former Attorney General William P. Barr writes in a new memoir that former President Donald J. Trump’s “self-indulgence and lack of self-control” cost him the 2020 election and says “the absurd lengths to which he took his ‘stolen election’ claim led to the rioting on Capitol Hill.”

In the book, “One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General,” Mr. Barr also urges his fellow Republicans to pick someone else as the party’s nominee for the 2024 election, calling the prospect of another presidential run by Mr. Trump “dismaying.”

“Donald Trump has shown he has neither the temperament nor persuasive powers to provide the kind of positive leadership that is needed,” Mr. Barr writes.

The memoir — an account of Mr. Barr’s time as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush and then again under Mr. Trump — defends his own actions in the Trump administration that led to sharp criticism of a Justice Department setting aside its independence to bend to White House pressure.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/27/us/politics/bill-barr-trump-january-6.html

[lefthandedskyhook]

1. Barr the brutal traitor

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[Ocelot II]

2. Yet Barr put his ass out there for TFG until after the election,

and lied about the Mueller Report to protect him. Sounds like the only thing he doesn't like about TFG is his shitty personality, not the shitty things he did or wanted to do.

[WHITT]

3. Eh

Exactly when was Donnie ever 'On the Rails'?

[agingdem]

7. good question...

so what was the "tell", Bill?...obviously the insanity, habitual lying, depravity, vulgarity, expletive riddled temper tantrums, poisonous threats, degrading insults, malignant disregard for human life, embracing Nazis, separating families, caging babies, overt racism, vengeful cruelty, conspiring to overthrow an election, and inciting an insurrection didn't click on the proverbial light bulb, then what did?

[Beachnutt]

4. Traitor Barr

should do more than that, he should be on every news channel in the US shouting it from the rooftops especially fox news and all fox affiliates.

[Karadeniz]

5. Good lord, the shamefulness!

[Thunderbeast]

6. I hope he is the "John Dean" of the congressional hearings

It would require a huge admission of guilt for bending the DOJ to the will of TFG, but it may be the only way for him to salvage any reputation in history.

John Dean served four months of a 1-4 year sentence for his part in Watergate, but time and contrition have helped him retain his role as a commentator on presidential ethics.

Barr has the receipts on TFG. His conviction is less likely than Dean's. He could be an enormous asset to the committee and even the DOJ.

[Chainfire]

8. Barr's loyalty is to Barr, not Trump, not the country. He is a perfect Republican.

[Raven123]

9. One d***ed book cannot erase his performance as Trump's AG.

[stopdiggin]

10. notice it's his 'temperment' and political abilities

making him undesirable - nothing to do with fascist inclinations or agenda. Yet another Republican pining for a more 'adroit' Trump - with all the same shameful and toxic ideas.

[Marcuse]

11. Barr did not provide even superficially plausible protection.

Barr is the single most important figure on Trump’s transition team, but the transition in question is not the democratic transfer of power. It is the transition from republican democracy to authoritarianism. Because of his suave, courteous, even jovial demeanor and intellectual acumen, and his long record as a member of the pre-Trump Republican establishment, it seems superficially plausible to look to Barr as the one who might ultimately seek to restrain Trump and protect the basic institutional and constitutional order.


https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/11/05/enabler-in-chief/

[Vogon_Glory]

12. Trump was off the rails and his flanges

were plowing through the ties and ballast back in 2016. I blame the majority of the Republican voters for being so willingly blind to what was in front of them for foisting Donald Trump on the rest of us.