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March 8th, 2022 
Awake Goy 
Barr pledged to vote for Trump should he win the 2024 GOP nomination for president despite grave accusations and condemnations leveled against the former president in the former attorney general’s forthcoming book about his time in the Trump administration.
Specifically, Barr describes in his book clashes with Trump over the White House’s false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election — culminating in a meeting with Trump last December that saw the Justice Department chief refute the president’s election lies to his face.
“I told him that what he was saying was b.s. and that there was no basis for it. And he was livid,” Barr said Monday. Trump then accepted Barr’s offer to resign, according to Barr.
Barr also acknowledged that he underestimated the lengths to which Trump was willing to go to overturn the election and was “surprised” by Trump’s incitement of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
“I think that the aim was to pressure Congress and to pressure the vice president,” Barr said of the insurrection. “And I’ve said that regardless of whether laws were broken … it was a shameful thing, because one branch of government shouldn’t be trying to use a mob to pressure another branch.”
Barr said Monday that he “was pretty content with the administration up until the election,” and that he “supported [Trump’s] policies.” The former president “was always hard to work with and resistant to advice, but you could usually keep things on track,” Barr said.
After the election, however, Trump “went off the rails,” Barr continued. “He wouldn’t listen to anybody except a little coterie of sycophants who were telling him what he wanted to hear, and I think he did a lot of damage.”
Asked to respond to a derisive, three-page letter Trump sent to NBC in response to questions about Barr’s book, Barr said the document was “par for the course.”
“I mean, 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,” Barr said. “So I thought the letter was childish.”
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