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| 'One Damn Thing After Another'... former AG Bill Barr lets Trump have both barrels. (Page 1/4) |
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rinselberg
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FEB 28, 04:25 AM
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"Barr calls prospect of Trump running for president again ‘dismaying,’ says GOP should ‘look forward’ to others"
| quote | Former attorney general William P. Barr says in a new book that the prospect of Donald Trump running for president again is “dismaying” and urges the Republican Party to “look forward” to other candidates, concluding after a searing, behind-the-scenes account of his time in the president’s Cabinet that Trump is not the right man to lead the country.
In the book, “One Damn Thing After Another,” Barr takes shot after shot at Trump, especially over his leadership during the coronavirus pandemic and his false claims that the election was stolen from him. Barr, who had a famous falling-out with Trump late in his presidency, writes that Trump’s “constant bellicosity diminishes him and the office,” and that in the final months of the administration, he came to realize that “Trump cared only about one thing: himself. Country and principle took second place.”
“We need leaders not only capable of fighting and ‘punching,’ but also persuading and attracting — leaders who can frame, and advocate for, an uplifting vision of what it means to share in American citizenship,” Barr writes. “Donald Trump has shown he has neither the temperament nor persuasive powers to provide the kind of positive leadership that is needed.”
Barr styles the book, to be published March 8, as a memoir of his life. He recounts events as far back as his childhood on the Upper West Side of New York City. He launches blistering attacks on liberals and the news media — whom he views even more dimly than the former president — while outlining his conservative views on crime, religion, gender and sexuality. He also defends his handling of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report, and details how the Justice Department navigated allegations that Trump had committed a crime in pressuring Ukraine’s president to investigate Joe Biden.
Most notably, he unloads on Trump, casting him as an “incorrigible” narcissist who, “through his self-indulgence and lack of self-control,” blew the 2020 election and then did “a disservice to the nation” in falsely claiming his defeat was due to fraud.
“The election was not ‘stolen,’” Barr writes. “Trump lost it.” |
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That's the half of it. The other half is available online.
Matt Zapotosky and Josh Dawsey for the Washington Post; February 27, 2022.
https://www.washingtonpost..../27/barr-trump-2024/[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 02-28-2022).]
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sourmash
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FEB 28, 08:59 AM
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I'll fire this first shot: the GOP shouldn't look to others as the former AG says. The GOP should eat chit and die.
Trump is popular in spite of the GOP sellouts. He's popular because people are fed up with the sellouts in the 2 major parties. Donald made them more relevant again.
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rinselberg
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FEB 28, 09:14 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by sourmash:
I'll fire this first shot: the GOP shouldn't look to others as the former AG says. The GOP should eat chit and die.
Trump is popular in spite of the GOP sellouts. He's popular because people are fed up with the sellouts in the 2 major parties. Donald made them more relevant again. |
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sourmash
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FEB 28, 09:17 AM
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Trump was such an idiot for working with people like that pos.
The guy will never learn.
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Rickady88GT
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FEB 28, 01:49 PM
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Trump has my vote again if he runs.
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Hudini
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MAR 01, 01:19 AM
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rinse with the trump trolling again. Does your arm get tired beating that dead horse?
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rinselberg
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MAR 01, 01:02 PM
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It's a catchy title, don't ya' think? Barr has a little backstory for that. It's in the book. But guess what? I'm not going to buy it. I'm not going to read it. Not page by page. I might reference it again, in connection with some other damn thing that comes up, that I decide to make into a public forum message or post. I would just say "post" but by itself, the word seems a little out of place. I mean, who makes a post?
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Rickady88GT
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MAR 01, 08:19 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by rinselberg:
It's a catchy title, don't ya' think? Barr has a little backstory for that. It's in the book. But guess what? I'm not going to buy it. I'm not going to read it. Not page by page. I might reference it again, in connection with some other damn thing that comes up, that I decide to make into a public forum message or post. I would just say "post" but by itself, the word seems a little out of place. I mean, who makes a post? |
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Barr was not a bad person or employee, but Trump most definitely should have fired MANY more of the democrats appointees. This is a lesson learned and I doubt Trump will make the same mistake on his next Presidency. I wouldn't mind seeing Barr again.
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sourmash
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MAR 01, 08:27 PM
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Trump won't change. He'll continue to rely on incompetent people to choose his appointees. He never learned while in office and is still pushing stupid things like the dangerous experimental injections.
Barr is not even a good human, imo.
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blackrams
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MAR 01, 08:30 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Rickady88GT:
I wouldn't mind seeing Barr again. |
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I would agree with that. 
Rams
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