Former Attorney General William Barr says Donald Trump “has shown he has neither the temperament nor persuasive powers” of a leader and is urging the Republican party to pick someone else to be the party’s presidential candidate in 2024, calling another potential Trump campaign “dismaying,” according to excerpts of his forthcoming book obtained by The Washington Post.
In his new memoir, “One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General,” Barr repeatedly knocks the defeated former president for “losing his grip” after his election loss to Joe Biden.
“He stopped listening to his advisers, became manic and unreasonable, and was off the rails. He surrounded himself with sycophants, including many whack jobs from outside the government, who fed him a steady diet of comforting but unsupported conspiracy theories,” Barr writes in his book according to The Post.
Barr also wrote that Trump had a furious meltdown during a December 2020 meeting, after the Department of Justice found nothing to support Trump’s election fraud claims. and accused his Attorney General of “pulling the rug out from under me.”
During that meeting, Barr reportedly called Trump’s election claims “bullshit” and offered to resign from his position, Trump slammed the table and yelled “accepted!” the former AG wrote.
Trump later called Barr a “swamp creature” for not going along with his scheme to overturn the election results.
