- Barr made his comments on Fox News after saying ‘I’ll jump off that bridge when it comes’ about his election choices.
- He previously called Trump’s election fraud allegations “nonsense.”
- He called Biden ‘the biggest threat to democracy’
Trump’s former attorney general, Bill Barr, announced that he will support Trump in November, after resigning in the final days of his administration and repeatedly denouncing Trump in public for his actions leading up to January 6.
Barr, 73, made the comments on Fox News after flatly telling NBC last year that “I have made clear that I strongly oppose Trump’s nomination and that I will not endorse Trump.”
The longtime Republican also indicated how he had struggled with the binary option presented by the two major party candidates. “I’ll jump off that bridge when I get to it,” he said.
“The Biden administration is, in fact, the greatest threat to democracy,” the former attorney general told Fox News host Neil Cavuto on Saturday, during a critical period before the start of the first criminal trial against a former president.
He cited the influence of the ‘far left,’ during a campaign in which Biden has been drawing criticism from a growing pro-Palestinian faction, on a weekend when the House pushed through a package of bills Biden called for with military aid. for Ukraine. Israel and Taiwan.
Trump’s former attorney general, Bill Barr, said he will stand by his former boss and called Joe Biden the “biggest threat to democracy” despite publicly breaking with Trump over allegations of voter fraud that he called “nonsense.”
Barr, who has endured public insults from Trump since their breakup in December 2020, seemed optimistic about many of Trump’s policies while in office.
“But at the end of the day, you have to remember that I was serving in your administration,” he told Cavuto on his ‘Cavuto Live’ show. ‘I was fine with his policies. I think his policies were good policies. My problems arose with his behavior, which I found very worrying after the election.’
Barr’s testimony before the House committee on January 6 provided explosive video during the televised hearing. He said he told Trump that his claims of widespread voter fraud were “nonsense.” Those claims are at the center of the criminal charges Trump now faces in Georgia and Washington, DC.
But on Fox, Barr said the threat posed by Biden and the left was greater.
‘I think they have a totalitarian temperament. They have bought into the progressive movement. And they are trying to stifle opposition and freedom of expression,” he said.
Trump’s pushback against Trump came before the start of Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan over ‘hush money’ payments to Stormy Daniels.
Cavuto noted that Barr said publicly that Trump ‘knew well that he lost the election’
Trump on Monday called the cases against him a “witch hunt”
“In my opinion, it’s a group of heavy-handed thugs, and that’s where the threat is,” said Barr, who stood next to Trump during his infamous Bible photo during the George Floyd protests outside the White House.
He said he was “not happy” with the choice of Trump and Biden, calling it a “terrible choice.”
He called Trump the person who would do “the least harm to the country.”
He called the Biden administration the “biggest threat to democracy.”
Cavuto noted that Barr said publicly that Trump “knew full well he lost the election” and called Trump’s actions after the Jan. 6 impeachment “nauseous” and “despicable” and that he should not be “anywhere near the Oval Office.” “.
“I’m having trouble squaring that up,” Cavuto said.
“I don’t think Biden should be anywhere near the Oval Office, that’s the fact,” Barr replied.
He has been signaling his move toward Trump. Last week he said, “I will support the Republican nomination,” using language similar to that used by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has not spoken to Trump since Jan. 6 but ultimately endorsed him.
“Trump may be playing Russian roulette, but in my opinion, the continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide,” Barr said.
Barr resigned from his position two days before Christmas 2020, after publicly contradicting Trump’s claims of a “rigged” election.