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William Barr says Trump lost the 2020 election, urges GOP to move on in 2024

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:


  • William Barr wrote “The election was not ‘stolen’” in his forthcoming book. “Trump lost it.”
  • The former attorney general reportedly wrote that a Trump White House bid in 2024 would be “dismaying.”
  • Barr says the GOP should “look forward” in search of new candidates.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr disavowed former President Donald Trump’s claims casting doubt on the integrity of the 2020 election, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.

Barr wrote in the book, “One Damn Thing After Another,” that Trump didn’t win the 2020 presidential race against Joe Biden.

“The election was not ‘stolen,’” the former attorney general wrote, per The Post. “Trump lost it.”

Barr’s memoir is expected to detail some of the tensest moments between the two men as it related to Trump’s unfounded voter-fraud claims.

After Barr told an Associated Press reporter in December 2020 that there wasn’t evidence of mass voter fraud, the attorney general met with Trump in the White House to discuss the interview, according to the book.

Barr’s statements, which had become part of the public record, threw cold water on Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was illegitimate.

“This is killing me — killing me. This is pulling the rug right out from under me,” the book says Trump told Barr, according to The Post. “He stopped for a moment and then said, ‘You must hate Trump. You would only do this if you hate Trump.’”

The former attorney general also wrote that he informed Trump of how he had “sacrificed a lot personally to come in to help you when I thought you were being wronged” but was adamant that the Department of Justice couldn’t verify the debunked claims of fraud that many Republicans argued had tipped the election to favor Biden.

Barr, who served as attorney general under Trump from February 2019 to December 2020, also called on conservatives to embrace “an impressive array of younger candidates” in 2024 whom he described as ideologically aligned with the former president but lacking his “erratic personal behavior,” per the book.

In the book, however, Barr is said to blast Trump for what he describes as the former president’s lack of character.

“Country and principle took second place,” he remarked in the book, per The Post, recalling his personal revelations about Trump while navigating the last few months in his role.

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He added: “People are worthwhile to Trump only as means to his ends — as utensils.”

Barr, who also served as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush from November 1991 to January 1993, succeeded former Sen. Jeff Sessions, who had a tumultuous tenure in the administration after recusing himself from the Russia investigation and drawing the scorn of Trump.

Source: Insider

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3 Comments

3 Comments

  1. ox

    March 2, 2022 at 7:39 pm

    It’s not a question whether Trump lost the election in 2020. The real big question which no one wants to address, Did Trump lose in a fair and honest way?
    Until one can prove that the election was fair and honest, prove that the election wasn’t stolen. If the election was so fair and honest, then why would the liberal commie Democrats want a Federal takeover of the election process. The election process was given to the States under the U.S. Constitution. Any attempt by the Federal govt., to take that right away from the States is unconstitutional, and Lying Corrupt Quid Pro KING Joe knows that. Then again Corrupt Quid Pro and the liberal commie Democrats don’t believe in the Constitution.

    • Mandy Martin

      March 2, 2022 at 8:00 pm

      Bill Barr is a HUGE snake! There will never be a day that I will believe that Biden won the election. He couldn’t draw a hundred voters to any of his “rallies”!

  2. JoeH

    March 3, 2022 at 1:41 am

    Barr has proven to be a traitorous dog.

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