William Barr (L); Donald Trump.Photo: Getty (2)
Bill Barris speaking out about his resignation as attorney general asDonald Trump’s term was winding down, and addressing new conflicts with the former president.
Ahead of the release of his memoirOne Damn Thing After Another, Barr spoke withSavannah Guthriein an interview that aired during Monday’s episode of theTodayshow. In the segment, she asked him about a scathing “three-page, single-spaced” letter Trump, 75, sent to NBC about Barr following the former attorney general’s earlier interview with Lester Holt.
Guthrie said the letter consisted of “mostly personal insults,” with Barr, 71, telling her, “It’spar for the course. The president is a man who, when he’s told something he doesn’t want to hear, he immediately throws a tantrum and attacks the person personally. So I thought the letter was childish.”
Barr, who resigned from his position as attorney general in December 2020 following Trump’s loss toJoe Bidenin the presidential election, told Guthrie, 50, he “was pretty content with” Trump’s administration “up until the election” that November.
“I supported his policies,” Barr said of Trump. “He was always hard to work with and resistant to advice, but you could usually keep things on track.”
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“But after the election,” the longtime attorney said, Trump “went off the rails.”
He also maintains that “there was no stealing of the electionthrough fraud,” despite what Trump has continued to claim.
“The votes reflected the decision of the people,” he said. “You can talk all you want about the playing field and gaming of the system — and there were some things that have to be looked into, like the Facebook payments. But thatdoes not mean the election was stolen, or that those votes were invalid. There simply was no evidence of that.”
Speaking toToday, Barr also said he planned to “support somebody else for the nominee” if Trump chooses to run again in 2024.
Barr didn’t, however, rule out voting for Trump should the former president clinch the Republican nomination in the future.
“It’s hard to project what the facts are going to turn out to be three years hence, but as of now, it’s hard for me to conceive that I wouldn’t vote for the Republican nominee,” Barr told Guthrie.
“That’s one of the reasons I was persuaded to take the attorney general job — because I wasn’t looking for anything,” he added. “I don’t have a future career; I’m retired. And I felt I could just call ‘em as I see ‘em. Anyone who tries to win the approval of others is gonna be compromised very quickly.”
One Damn Thing After Anotherwill be released Tuesday.
source: people.com
