Former Atty. Gen. Bill Barr, 72, lashed out a his former boss, 76-year-old President Donald Trump in another classless display of disloyalty, all because Trump didn’t praise Barr enough for his time at the White House. Barr resigned Dec. 23, 2020 after Trump expressed his frustration at Barr’s inability to get any traction on 72-year-old Special Counsel John Durham (R-Conn.) probe into the origin of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Trump and his 2016 campaign. Former FBI Director James Comey opened a counterintelligence investigation on Trump based on former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA the Steele dossier. Former CIA Director John Brennan gave Comey a copy of Hillary’s entirely bogus dossier. Trump hoped that Barr would deliver the goods on Brennan and the Comey and instead did nothing.
Barr joined the GOP’s anti-Trump movement, saying another four years would cause “chaos” and a “horror show,” despite the fact that Barr served a year-and-a-half as Trump attorney general. “If you believe in his policies, what he’s advertising as his positions, he’s the last person who could actually execute them and achieve them,” Barr said at a book signing in Cleveland. Barr’s rancor toward Trump has only grown since resigning as attorney general. Barr, like in the Lincoln Project or others just opposed to returning Trump to the White House, can’t fathom that in early polls show Trump lapping his competition, leading his hypothetical rival 44-year-old Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, despite the fact that he hasn’t announce his 2024 run. DeSantis says he’ll pick up in the polls once he announces. Judging by a speech he gave in London April 28, DeSantis could have more problems holding an audience.
Barr’s animosity toward Trump rivals that of Trump’s former disgraced attorney Michael Cohen, who spends every waking minute since leaving prison Nov. 21, 2021 for income tax evasion, illegal sales of New York taxicab medallions, campaign finance violations, bank and wire fraud, etc. Like Cohen, Barr has taken to the distasteful step of denouncing Trump for whatever reason. Barr has zero clout in the GOP, other than the liberal media giving him airtime to denounce Trump. Whatever Barr’s beef with Trump, the former president has an uphill battle getting back to the White House, no matter what he does in the primaries. Barr’s correct, without saying it outright, that Trump is probably not electable because of all his baggage. One more indictment for anything would do in Trump’s 2024 bid. Voters find Trump objectionable enough to put him back in the White House.
Trump’s former attorney general has something in common with others with their hatred of the former president. Whether Barr detests Trump or not, venting in public shows no class, only reflects on Barr’s insatiable need for media attention. “It is a horror show where he’s left to his own devices,” Barr said. “And so you may want his policies, but Trump will not deliver Trump polices,” Barr said showing how far he’s over the deep end. Barr can’t deny that Trump had excellent relations with China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. What kind of relations with U.S. adversaries does 80-year-old President Joe Biden have? Biden got the U.S. into a shooting war with the Kremlin using Ukrainian troops. Barr says nothing about the current White House occupant that’s pushed the Peoples Republic of China into a possible shooting war over Taiwan’s independence.
Barr has plenty to say about Trump not achieving Trump policies but what does Barr think Trump achieved in foreign policy and the U.S. economy? Does Barr think that Trump pushed the world to the brink of WW III possibly nuclear war? Does Barr think that Trump created runaway inflation due to his war against the Kremlin? Barr likes to rip Trump but he’s incorrect about Trump implementing his policies. Who’s policies does Barr think Trump initiated when he passed the biggest tax breaks since President Ronald Reagan? “He will deliver chaos, and, if anything, lead to a backlash that will set his policies much further back that they other would be,” Barr insisted, showing that he paid no attention to Trump’s accomplishments in office. Whether Barr admits it or not, Trump shed light on corruption in the U.S. media, but, more importantly, undeniable corruption and incompetence at the DOJ, CIA and FBI.
Barr has made a lot of Democrat friends since leaving his post, often slamming Trump is distasteful ways. Barr makes no sense that Trump could not get his policies in place if he became president again. Trump got plenty of his policies implemented when he was president. But, more importantly, Trump did not start any foreign wars, only promised to end U.S. involvement in Afghanistan at the earliest possible time. In two-and-a-half years, Biden got the U.S. into a war with Russia and is pushing for a conflict with China. Trump had the U.S. Gross Domestic Product growing at over two percent, despite the Covid-19 global pandemic that tossed millions out of their jobs. With the pandemic mostly over, Biden got the benefit of a post-Covid snapback. But when it comes to foreign policy, another four years of Biden could be the end of the U.S.—or world for that matter—as we know it.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
