Barr: Trump using 'extortion' to control GOP

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Yahoo News

Former Attorney General William Barr said that former President Donald Trump was resorting to “extortion” to continue to exert influence over the Republican Party, and said he still hasn’t decided what to make of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago and the government’s recovery of hundreds of pages of classified documents.

In a lengthy interview published Thursday, former New York Times editor Bari Weiss asked Barr why more Republicans did not simply come out and say that Trump’s claims that election fraud had prevented him from winning the 2020 election were, to use Barr's previous word, “bullshit.”

“The tactic that Trump is using to exert this control over the Republican Party is extortion,” Barr said of his former boss. “What other great leader has done this? Telling the party, ‘If it’s not me, I’m going to ruin your election chances by telling my base to sit home. And I’ll sabotage whoever you nominate other than me.’ It shows what he’s all about. He’s all about himself.”

Barr recounted Trump's fury on Dec. 1, 2020, when he learned that his attorney general had given an interview to the Associated Press and told them there was no evidence of widespread election fraud. Trump exploded at Barr over the interview, a clash that reportedly led Barr to tender his resignation on the spot before being convinced by White House counsel Pat Cipollone to wait to announce his departure.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/barr-trump-using-extortion-to-control-gop-232101391.html

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Yes but you enabled that piece of shit Billy boy.

[CanonRay]

1. You own it Billy B

[Ray Bruns]

2. Hey, Barr. Nobody gives a damn what you think.

[Mr. Ected]

3. To protect a complicit GOP, you cast your net to include Trump, you lying enabler

Now you want the good old boys back and Trump thrown under the bus.

Your cowardice and corrupt intention in protecting your party when America's democracy lay in the balance: unforgiveable.

You should be left on an island far away from the rest of civilization.

[empedocles]

4. Could be an important witness. Maybe barr already has a DOJ deal?

[Xipe Totec]

5. Billy-come-lately. nt

[thesquanderer]

6. re: "It shows what he's all about. He's all about himself."

Barr is one slow learner.

[onetexan]

13. No. Lowbarr is also all about himself.

Takes one to know one.

[Fullduplexxx]

7. bar says look over there not at me

[Jarqui]

8. I hope Barr gets an indictment for perjury ... nt

[dchill]

9. Bill Barr makes Jabba the Hutt seem legitimate.

[Hekate]

10. Corrupt cowards

Pretty much all of them

[RussBLib]

21. I can see them....

....cowering in their rooms, afraid of Trumpy, and hardly a single spine among them. This kind of representative we do not need.

Stand up to the thugs! If you lose your seat, at least you will have your integrity intact. Now, you're just quivering, scared children.

[usonian]

11. He that smelt it dealt it.

He had the ability to dig it up.
Another J. Edgar Hoover not in drag (that we know of)

[orthoclad]

12. CYA

All these fellow-travelers and enablers are crying to us now about mean ol' Mr. Trump. Some of it's cashing in, some of it is feeling the wolf's breath on their necks.

[Corgigal]

14. And we're still not buying your book,

or reading it. Time for polite society to tell you and your family that no weekend socials for you.

[NJCher]

15. I think what he said is important

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Remember after george bush’s first election with the hanging pods and the brown shirts and all the rest of the gop bullsh#$? Everyone was stunned, but no one put a label on what the SC did.

It took a couple days but Vincent Bugliosi came out and labeled it. The Nation published None Dare Call it Treason. Later he expanded this important article into a book by writing The Betrayal of America How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President.

Pointing this out was important to the nation’s understanding of what had just taken place.

Similarly Barr is calling out trump’s mafiosi style of operation.

[Novara]

18. after the fact doesn't mitigate the damage one bit

That barn door was opened long ago.

I am so FUCKING sick and tired of all these corrupt motherfuckers coming out AFTER THE FACT to try and rehabilitate their images. You ALL could have done something before it got to this point, thus, you ALL are complicit. Your silence enabled him and gave him permission to destroy the country, an action which he is still doing. You all could have stopped him. You can't stop him now. That ship sailed.

You can't rehabilitate yourself now.

[NJCher]

19. That is true

Nevertheless, now is important because there is a new audience of people/voters who are willing to listen to people like Barr who were there and who know that trump is dangerous because he’s a dimwitted wack job.

That is what I care about: potential voters and trump losing support.

Bellyaching about Barr trying to rehabilitate his image is not my concern. I’m looking at the big picture.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

20. Agree, sound reasoning (nt)

[vlyons]

16. Hey Barr, when did you decide that licking Trump's boot didn't taste so good?

Alas too little, too late.

[Raven123]

17. Clearly he doesn't have a problem with extortion, as he said he would vote for Trump again

[Heather MC]

22. It's funny Ali Republican party is filled with all these simpleton weak white men

Like seriously not one of them is brave enough to stand up against Donald Trump?
He just an over grown school yard bully.

They can't mount an effective counter attack🤔