Kansas Crimson

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.”

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Barr writes that he and White House lawyers had regular Monday lunches, where they would “inventory the legally problematic ideas floating around the administration.” A “fair share” of those — such as using an executive order to end citizenship for children born in the United States to parents who were here illegally — came from Trump himself, Barr writes.

He writes that the lawyers “operated like a tag team, so that neither of us would provoke too much of the President’s ire at one time.”

“We referred to this as choosing who would ‘eat the grenade,’” Barr writes.

jhawks99 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 1:48 pm "Trump cared only about one thing: himself. Country and principle took second place."

Seems Barr and Trump had at least one thing in common.

Qusdahl wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 2:18 pm I wonder why more of these folks don’t speak up sooner. Did you really have to wait til you’re cashing in on a book deal about it?

I also wonder whether these former trump allies who now want us to “move on” from the guy, also have the most to loose from continuing to investigate.

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:54 am is farming the interwebz for anything negatively related to the republican party your way of extending the olive branch across the isle.

you are no better than those you like to trash on.

kubowler99 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:59 am You do understand it doesn't take hours of work and a fucking plow to find this shit, don't you? It's literally everywhere because the 'republican' party is an absolute shit-show. When Mitt fucking Romney is your cow bell....

Edited: I also wanted to add that calling out the republican party for the shit show that it currently is doesn't mean you aren't a republican anymore. No different that calling out the Biden Administration for the failure when exiting Afghanistan. It was a failure (we can debate why and how, but at the end of the day, it falls on them) - and me calling it that doesn't mean all of the sudden I hate the administration. It just means I'm mature enough to hold them accountable.

I expect better, as should you.

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 12:09 pm you're the bigger person. so says you.