I’ve said all along given two bad choices, I think it’s my duty to pick the person I think would do the least harm to the country. And in my mind, I will vote the Republican ticket. I think the real danger to the country — the real danger to democracy, as I say — is the progressive agenda. Trump may be playing Russian roulette, but a continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide in my opinion.
That was former Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday. If Barr leaves people puzzled, they might recall what he has said and done “all along.” For example, he supported the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-A-Lago residence.
“I think a lot of the attacks on the FBI are over the top because a decision like this is not made by the FBI,” Barr explained. The DOJ and AG would make the call and “the FBI would be told to go and execute it.” Barr also supported the indictment of Trump for mishandling classified documents. Trump was “not a victim,” and “if even half of it is true, then he’s toast,” and so on.
In May of 2023, Barr predicted “a horror show” if Trump was again elected president. “You may want his policies,” Barr told reporters, “but Trump will not deliver Trump policies. He will deliver chaos, and if anything lead to a backlash that will set his policies much further back than they otherwise would be.” Consider also Barr’s One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General, published in 2022.
Right out of law school, Barr launched his career with the CIA, and aside from Stansfield Turner, CIA bosses come off well. Barr is a big fan of Robert Mueller and deputy attorney general Rob Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller to investigate President Trump. “Few can appreciate the complexities Rod faced during that tumultuous time,” writes the former AG, “and even fewer will know the important contributions he made to the administration and the country.” The former AG and CIA man is also friendly with James Comey and an admirer of Christopher Wray, who denied the FBI spied on Trump.
Barr tasked U.S. Attorney John Durham to look into the Russia hoax, but as the memoir explains, “I made it clear that neither President Obama nor Vice President Biden were in Durham’s crosshairs.” So for Attorney General Barr some people and agencies are above the law.
The FBI is now openly deployed against Trump supporters, smeared as violent extremists, domestic terrorists and so forth. According to former CIA man John Gentry, the politicization of intelligence was “aimed at Trump” and the IC agencies are “available for reactivation in the event of another serious candidacy by Trump or the election of another Republican president.”
William Barr now supports the election of Donald Trump as the person who would “do the least harm to the country.” Did Barr clear it with Christopher Wray and Biden’s CIA boss William Burns? Where, exactly, does the deep state stand on this election? As Trump says, we’ll have to see what happens.
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