Posted on 03/07/2022 2:27:28 AM PST by Hostage
Former Attorney General William Barr claims in a new book that he yelled at his boss, then-President Donald Trump over a discussion regarding Hunter Biden shortly before the November 2020 election.
“In his upcoming book, ‘One Damn Thing After Another,’ Barr recalled that in October 2020, Trump called soon after a Newsmax segment on Hunter Biden’s laptop,” Fox News reported Wednesday.
“Reports about the computer revolved around emails that appeared to connect Joe Biden to his son’s business dealings when the elder Biden was vice president,” the report continued.
“You know this stuff from Hunter Biden’s laptop?” Trump asked Barr, the book says.
“Mr. President, I can’t talk about that, and I am not going to,” Barr says he responded “sharply.”
Hunter Biden was reportedly already under federal investigation at the time for various allegations including potential tax issues. Barr wrote in his book that Trump didn’t appreciate his tone.
“You know, if that was one of my kids,” Trump began before Barr cut him off quickly.
“Dammit, Mr. President, I am not going to talk to you about Hunter Biden. Period!” Barr fired back, in a raised voice.
After a brief silence, Trump got off the phone; Barr wrote that his chief of staff, Will Levi, who was in the room during the call, was shocked.
“You yelled at the President?” Levi asked, with Barr nodding in confirmation, the book claims.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“The 600-page book is due out March 8, and according to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Barr uses it to attack Trump’s credibility, leadership, and temperament — framing his own service in the Trump Administration as a ‘personal sacrifice,’” The Daily Wire adds.
“Trump has ‘shown he has neither the temperament nor persuasive powers to provide the kind of positive leadership that is needed,’ and that it is time for Republicans to focus on rising new leaders in the party,” Barr says, the Wall Street Journal noted further.
Barr is also clear on where he stands regarding Trump’s oft-repeated claims that the 2020 election was “stolen.”
“The election was not ‘stolen.’ Trump lost it,” Barr reportedly wrote.
Critics blasted Barr, in part, for waiting to write a book instead of trying to do something to shift Trump’s behavior or negate its impact if he only had come forward sooner.
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“That Barr feels himself free to write a book describing Trump’s excesses, framing his own service to Trump as a ‘personal sacrifice,’ & purporting to ‘advise’ the Republican Party, is a damning reflection of our profession’s failure to hold its standards,” Sherrilyn Ifill tweeted.
“How on character that Barr waited until he could make money off of it with a book to say Trump was totally unsuited for the presidency, instead of doing something about it when he had the power to,” Joyce White Vance added.
Politico’s Kyle Cheney went on to compare Barr to former National Security Advisor John Bolton, saying, “Bill Barr 2022 = John Bolton 2019. Both had visibility into actions by Donald Trump that caused them great alarm and would have been useful to impeachment investigators. Both withheld that knowledge and saved it for tell-all books.”
Well of course. Democrats are to be protected. Republicans are to be prosecuted.
Nauseating.
Insubordination,
Negligence,
Dereliction.
Barr had a duty to investigate Hunter Biden but chose not to because of his own political views.
Now he’s ingratiating himself to the Anti-Trumper factions and saying Trump lost the election, there was no cheating.
How would this career bureaucrat react to the news from Wisconsin?
He won’t react. News that is in Trump’s favor is not to be admitted to.
Alinksy said:
The issue is never the issue.
The issue is always the revolution.
In the same way:
The issue was never Hunter Biden. (Some crack head who chooses inappropriate sex partners is sort of small potatoes.)
The issue was always political coverups by Joe Biden and by Deep State flunkies.
Barr showed himself right there to be a Deep State flunky.
Barr was part of the revolution.
Cue the attacks on yet another dud of a Trump pick. Look I like Trump but at some point you realize you can’t have it both ways. Either Trump is terrible at working with people or he’s terrible at picking people. I might have been willing to cut him some slack if things turned out differently in 2020. But maybe its better for him to play kingmaker next time.
This scumbag was the Bush NWO Globalist regime’s inside man. He betrayed the country by looking the other way as vote fraud was being commited. He betrayed the country by not looking into the Hunter Biden crimes and how a future POTUS could be blackmailed by our enemies.
“Mr. President, I can’t talk about that,”
Plus this “thing” that the AG is totally independent from the POTUS is FICTION as per the Constitution. The AG has no authority other than what flows down from the POTUS. If Trump wznted a derailed detailed on every and any case, the US Constitution gives him the right ask and get one.
Have not watched Fox since the election. But... Laura Ingraham swore on stacks of bibles thar Barr was righteous. Instead he was a treacherous snake. Can’t read, watch Ingraham. This shows me she is clueless.
You forgot another or...or Trump was given a list to choose from via China owned Mitch McConnell. What say you?
It’s a wonder President Trump accomplished anything surrounded by such snakes!
This very directly juices Biden’s base.... “if only you’d come forward earlier!” Etc etc.
No big deal, it’s only America and besides, you get to make a few bucks hey Bill?
Unlike Eric Holder or Merrick Garland, Barr simply chose not to use his office publicly to pursue political ends. Now that he is out of office he pursues political ends with a book.
Go blow something, Barr.
Understand that Trump can only choose from a list handed to him by Schumer and McConnell.
In other words, a President doesn’t get to pick and choose because ..... politics.
Contrast that with what Trump did in the private sector where he chose the very best.
Keep in mind Trump donated his salary and didn’t have to do this, then ask why in hell is he doing it?
He’s always been clear on the answer, he loves the country and the People. He was told what was coming and that it didn’t have the best interests of Americans in mind. Trump knew Hillary Clinton would be the worst thing for America.
Delegation is not an excuse. The buck still stops with him. Omarosa Kavanaugh Cohen Pence. Pretty much every major pick by Trump has (according to this place) been a disaster. Even diehards like Bannon have ‘backstabbed’ him again according to here. And even though it was apparent early in his term he still kept picking guys who turned on him. 2016-20 has been fun but for 2024 we need someone who can assemble a team with less drama. Maybe DeSantis. Trump can still be a kingmaker.
Well, she’s a DC lawyer and thereby a member of the club. They stick together.
But Barr’s book coming tomorrow reads like a clueless government lifer, clueless as to how Americans view DC ever since Trump exposed them for what they are
“We’ve seen vital reporting about Joe and Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings—information that voters needed and deserved to hear—ruthlessly suppressed and erased from the internet just weeks before a presidential election.”
“And as everyone knows, we’ve seen a sitting president of the United States effectively silenced by a small oligarchy of tech titans and “mainstream” media corporations.”
Donald J. Trump
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4044372/posts
“tTrump called soon after a Newsmax segment on Hunter Biden’s laptop”
*****
But, Rudy Guilliani had it for almost a year before we heard about it and he had already given it to the FBI. Rudy was Trump’s personal attorney at the time. It doesn’t make sense that Trump would be calling Barr after the story broke like he had just heard about it.
You act as if another GOP contender would appoint different people to those roles than Trump did. No offense, but that’s delusional. Any cabinet appointee has to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, so the president has no independent authority to select his own cabinet.
Bolton, Barr, etc. were ALL DISAPPOINTMENTS!!! Trump had a way of having themselves EXPOSE their inner RINO!!!
Judas SOB! This POS lead the gang of most catastrophically successful insurrectionist thugs this country has ever or will ever see. The one DS kingpin who the success and continuation of the coup absolutely depended on. I can’t wait to break out the champaign when this bastard is rotting in hell.
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